The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-03-19
VARIETY.

Tfyouth is blunder, manhood is q struggle, and
age regret.
The sunshine of life is made up of very little
beams that bright all the time.
friend that you buy with presents will be bought
from you-
Tomorrow is the day on which idle men work, and
fools reform.
FoRMALITY.-The more polished the society is, the
less formality there is in it.
Vice stings in our pleasures; but virtue con-
Soles even In our pains.
It is with life as with Coffee he who would drink it
pure must not drain it to the dregs.
More evil truths are discovered by the corruption
of the heart than by the penetration of the mind
A curious genius in Paris has lately invented a
mechanism by which he walk on the water.
The ETIQUETTE OF VIsITING.-Do as Echo does
she no sooner receives call than she Immediately
responds to it.
For people to make invitations to their houses and
table, or offers of their fortune and services is moth
ing. To be good their word is all the expense
and difficulty.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Mercury ex-
presses an opinion that, among the rarest curios
ties of modern times is editor who is willing to
consecrate his paper magazine to the naked truth
The best idea of weight given by an Indian,
who, when asked how much he weighed replied ''As
[ am, I weigh hundred and fifty pounds, but
when am mad weigh a ton.''
Remember that every person, however low, has
rights and feelings. In all contentious let peace be
rather your object than triumph Value triumph
only the means of peace-Sldney Smith.
DIVINE PRoMIsEs.-The promises of the Bible, shine
as freely in at the windows of the poor mans cottage
as the rich mans palace. mountain of gold,
heaped as high as heaven would be no such treasure
as one promise of God.
a GENTLEMAN-ss 1t takes four things to make q
thorough gentleman You must be a gentleman in
your principles: gentleman in your tastes, gentle
man in your manners, and gentleman IN your per-
son.
WoMAN's LAUGn.-A woman has no natural grace
more bewitching than o sweet laugh. Lit leaps from
her heart in clear, sparkling rlll; and the heart
that hears it feels as bathed in the exhilirating
spring. Have you ever pursured an unseen fugitive
through trees, led on by her airy laugh-noW ,here
now lost, now found? We have And we are puIsu-
ing that wandering voice to this day. Sometimes it
comes to in the midst of care sorrow or irksome
business and then we turn away and lisen and hear
it ringing through the moon like silver bell, with
power to scare away the Ill spirits of the mind How
much we owe to that sweet laugh 1t turns the
prose of our life into poetry, 1T things showers of sun
shine over the darksome wood in which travel
ing it touches with light our sleep, which is no
more the image of DEATH but IS consumed with dreams
that are the shadows of mortality
a TOUCHING CUsToM-A common practice In
Paris which mpresses stranger fayorably, IS tnat
of lifting or taking off the hat when funeral passes
writer on this subject relates the following:
ss Some years since, were one OF that rusnlng
tirong ever pouring down Broadway. When IN front
of old st. Paui's all eyes were attracted Dy tue
pearance of the crew Of the French war vesseI, AW
Belle Foule, which then visited the United states
under the command of the Prince de Jo1av'tte Inc
crew In their naval dress uniform, bright ana
beautiful, and sauntering along, seeing the
sights. All at once they stopped, formed a line,
faced inward, and uncovered How exquisite and
touching was the scene, when discovered in that
thoughtless, busy, hurrying crowd, of foreign
birth, under whose carried tiny coffin, and
by his side the stricken mother They search
of burial for their babe and were jostled and un
needed in that gay torrent of humanity, until they
met these hardy, tempest-tossed mariners who, on
the Instant with barred heads stood IN silent respect
while the sacred ashes of the unknown infant Were
passing. Such are French manners -