The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-02-19
VARIETY.

Never DO that in prosperity whereof you may re-
L emit in adversely
Never marry without love- nor love without reason.
He who masters his passion, subdues q fearful
enemy
Men are like bugles-the more brass they contain
the farther you can hear them Women are like
ups-the more modest and retired they appear, the
eter you love them.
Cowles, in his excellent history of plants, notices
E he virtue of hemp thus laconcally :-E' By this
orlage ships guided, bells are rung, and rogues
are kept i'll awe.
7ourself an honest man, and then you may be sure
hat there is one rascal less in the world.''
The question might form knotty subject for debate,
heher ladies of fashion change their dresses their
minds the oftenest
What plan,'' said actor to another, shall
/ slopt to fill the house at my beneft:''
Il "Invite your creditors was the surly reply.
Learning is the temperance of youth, the comfort
Sold age, and the only sure guide to honor and pre-
aTment.
1t is the part of wise to foresee msfortunes,
nd to prevent them before they come of valiant
nan to order them when they do come.
8 There is time when thou mayest say nothing, and
time when thou mayest say something, but there
never will be a time when thou shouldst say all
things.
Good actions once resolved, like fixed stars, should
hold one and the station of tirmness and should
not be subject to irregular and retrograde motions.
Habit in a child is at first like SPIDERS web, if
neglected it becomes thread or twine next cord
rope; finally Il cable ; and who can break it.
Philosophers say, that shutting the eyes makes the
sense of hearing more acute. This may account for
the many closed eyes that are seen in our churches
Eternity is the Divine treasure-house, and hope is
the window, by of which mortals are permitted
10 see through glass, darkly, the things which
God is preparing
L Ra1a No,tb
which, at the suns meridian, covers with shade q
space of nine thousand feet. 1t would afford shelter
for four thousand five hundred men,
TEAcnER.-How many kinds of axes are there p
Boy-BrOad axe. marrow axe, post axe, axe of the
legislature, axing price, and of the Apostles.
Teacher-Good? go to the head of your class.
LOOSE TIEs-Puach SAYS, the day after the appari-
ton of the Yankee ut her Majestys leyee, III black
cravat, the English funds actually declined \ cor
respondent draws from the fact the following moral :
the g tes'' of the two nations must be extremely
loose when g cravats' thus affect the Sc stocks "
To ascertain the length of the day and night, any
time of the year. double the time of the sun rising
which gives the length of the night, and double the
time of setting, which gives the length of the day.
This is little lnethOd of doing the thing' which
few of our readers have been aware Of
HAsrY LEGIsLATIoN.''-I the extraordinary en-
act1nent by which the members of the present Con-
gress have just voted themselves three times the
amount of pay to which the law entitled them when
they accepted office occurs this section -
SEC. T. .4nd be 1t further enacted, That all acts or
parts of acts inconsistent with Repayment to the
provisions of this act, be- and the same are hereby
repealed.
The Tribune thinks if this refers to the 8th COM
mandment, it will fail of its object.
i PRETTY WoMAx.-The subjoincd waif we have
discovered in an exchange:
pretty woman is one of the institutions of the
country-an angel in dry goods and glory. She
makes sunshine, blue sky, Fourth of July, and hap
pness wherever she goes Her path is one of deli
clous roses, perfumes and beauty.-She is sweet
poem, written in curs and choice calico, and
good principles Men stand up before her so many
admiration points, to melt into cream and then but
ter. Her words float round the ear like music birds
of Paradise, the chimes of Sabbath bells without
her society would lose its attraction the church
Its frmest reliance, and young men the very best OF
comforts and company. Her influence and generosi-
y restrain the vicious strengthen the weak raise the
iowly, fanne-shirt the heathen and strengthen the
alnt-hearted Wherever you find the virtuous wo-
man, you also find pleasant fresde boquets, clean
oo5hes, order good living, gentle hearts, music light
S sld model institutions generally. She is the
lower Of humanity, very Venus in dimity, and her
aspiration is the breath of Heaven.