The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-01-15
VARIETY.

Three removes are as bad as fire.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
The rolling stone gathers no moss.
Death comes to the young, but the aged go to
death.
What is the worst kind of fare for man to live on ?
Warfare.
Effects ofdrinking He who takes too many glasses
will become himself s tumbler.
An indirect way of getting glass of water at q
watering place. is to call for a third cup of tea.
Good looking girls in male attire are dangerous
counterfets.
EXAMINATION IN ANAroMY-How does man differ
from the brute creation He stands upright but he
doesn't act SO.
OLD MA1D.-One of the favored subjects for ex-
ercsing the courage of towards, and the wit of the
Witless.
A western editor perpetrates the following ga
flock of sheep composed of all wethers may be said
to resemble our climate. "
Why is a man who spoils his children like another
who builds castles in the air? Because he indulges
in fancy too much
SENTIMENT Public Schools-The Archimedean
lever that moves the world.
God has fashioned for a most beautiful world,
and yet we do not enjoy it should. Our only
dollar.''
Proud men never have friends neither in pros
perity because they know nobody, nor in adversity
because nobody knows them.
partizan says 1t is a mistake that the oppos-
ing party plays upon harp OF q thousand strings.
The organ OF that party Is a Tyre.
ssEnvy's memory says John Foster, is nothing
but row of hooks to hang up grudges Some
peoples sensiblites is bundle of arerSiOnS
constantly employed in recounting the things and per-
they cannot bear.
The Boston Post hits Hawthorne hard. Speaking
of Uphams Life, it says: The Liverpool Consulate
is variousy estimated
A fellow just returned from fight, in which he
came off second-best, asked what made him look
SO sheepish sc Because said he, sc 1 have been
and got LGRmed !'
It has been going the rounds of the papers that
Joseph Hiss, of nunnery investigation notoriety,
laboring actively in behalf of Fremont but appears
now that Fillmore is the candidate whom Joseph sup
ports.
Bell Britain who has been on O fishing excursion
gives to ladies the following advice:
Ladies who go fishing should leave their hoops al
home as sitting in them on the rocks is as hard as
sitting ON Il grldlron
Ill-nature in one person disturbs the whole COM
pany and makes them feel cross too, electricity
one end runs the whole length of the wire.
Perseverance is falling nineteen times, and sue
ceeding the twentieth !; but when you do succeed
good gracious me how applause does come down
IMPERrINENr.-Lady Tin fashionable dress)-s'Lit-
tie boy can so through this gate to the river?''
Boy Perhaps load of hay went through
this morning.
wealthy doctor who help poor man and
will not, without fee, has less sense of humanity
than poor ruffian, who kills rich man to supply
his necessties.-Steete.
He who is always in want Of something not b<
very rich. He is poor wit who lives by borrowing
the words, decisions, men, inventions and actions
Others-LGUater.
THE VALUE OF JoKEs.-As gold becomes refined by
passing through the ordeal of fire, so truth is thu
purer for being tested by the furnace of fun for joke
are to facts what melting pots to metal Th'
utterer of good joke is useful member of society.
A CHEAT OF A PROvERB.-We beg to state that tht
proyerb Sc Lightly come, lightly co., does not apply
to the gout, ones mother-in-law, nor to th'
rheumatism, nor to freckes, to light sovereign
Tor all these plaques come lightly enough, and ye
there Is the greatest difficulty sometimes In getting
them to CO.
Astronomers expect the appearance this year of thu
comet of l556. called Charles " and so named from
having, according to historians caused tha
monarch to abdcate and retire to the Convent of ST
Just. 1t is the identical wandering star, some saw
which appeared in 1864, 995, and in $685. Its return
was fixed for 1913, but it did not answer the call
frightened, perhaps, a monarchical comet, by thu
eccentrcities of that epoch The new calculations o
the sGUGns do not, however, admit Of much doubt a
TO the present nearness of its visit.