The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-01-29
VARIETY.

If you have your business done, go if not send
1t is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of
Srepentance
Buy what thou needest not and thou shalt sell thy
Hraessares.
Love is blind, and Hymen is the occulist that gene
nLy manages to open its eyes.
@Thou rain'st in this bosom,'' as the chap said
: when a basin of water was thrown over him by the
Z lady he was serenading.
4 The most cross grained are by no the worst
ID mankind, nor the humblest in station the least
pushed in feeling.
I We have observed many tumbles through life, but
have invariably noticed that it is the who mounts
THE high horse who receives the least pity when he
ShIs
To find out the number of children in street,
commence beating bass drum. To find out the
number of idle men, start dog fight.
The chap who took the thread of life to sew the
rent of house, has gone West and invented patent
+ point for cross-eyed needles.
81 HEALTHY CoUPLE-A couple named Jerry Bet
Ter and Louisa Well were married at the cathedral,
& in Cincinnati, few days ago. Louisa was Vel
= before, but she is now Better.
CONCEssIoNs.-A little explained, little endured,
little tolerated foible and 10 the jagged atoms
& 1t like smooth mosaic.-.4nOn.
celebrated physician, boasting at dinner that he
H smred his own hams, one of his guests observed,
Il Doctor, would sooner be your ham than your pa
& TENT
II How romantic young people are when they court.
Till girls get married, all they think necessary to
Emptiness are moonlight evenings, few holly-hocks
and red brick bird-cage, surrounded by honey
suckles and grape-vines.
It's virtue which should determine us in the choice
fMr friends so it is that alone which we should
always regard in them without fnquiring into their
seOd or i'll fortune.
To weep for fear is childish to weep for anger is
SOmanish to weep for grief is humane; to weep for
smpassion is divine; to weep for sin is Christian.
Lord Stanford told Moore that Lady Caroline Lamb,
In moment of passion, had knocked down one of
pages with a stool. swell, said the poet, it
E nothing uncommon for literary lady to double
'acOCn page"
man who cheats in short measure is q measure
SS rogue.
81 If he gives short measure in wheat then he is o
zrOgue in grain.
81 If in whisky then he is rogue in spirit.
If he gives bad title to land then he is rogue In
decd
And if he cheats whenever he can he is indeed, in
fprt in grain, measure-less scoundrel.
sailor being asked how he liked his bride, is re-
ported to have rem0rked-''Why, dye see, took
her 90 be only half of me, the parson says, but
lash me, if she isn't twice as much as I. I'm only
p tar-she's tartar.
6 A vast deal of genial humor, says Mrs. Stowe, is
conscentiously strangled in religious people, which
might illuminate and warm the way of life. Wit and
gaiety answer the purpose that fire does in
damp house, dispensing chills and drying up mold
% md making all wholesome and cheerful.
1t was recently stated at the meeting of Agricul
ural Association, in England, that the farmers III
shat country have within the last three years expen
Hed five millions sterling-$25 ,000, ,000-in the pur.
: phase of guano. Within the period million o
fresh acres have been brought under cultivation
CURE FOR THIRsT.-When at sea on short allow
nce of water and you feel thirsty eat piece of hard
lscuit with lump of white sugar In thirst, the
vary glands ef the mouth are parayzed but restore
heir action by chewing, and Immediately there
pill be relief A friend who has been on short allow.
fnee of water in warm latitudes, confirms the trutf
~ the above statement.
PRESENT DUTy-Iet him who gropes painfully il
arkness or uncertain light, and prays vehement.
mat the dawn may ripen into day. lay this other pre-
sept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable
rvlce DO the duty which lies nearest thee, Wicl
tAOu knowest to be duty; the second duty win al
feady have become clearer.-CGrlyte.
s % NE again p,
Nay, dearest he replied.
& ana she neighed-BGrdSt0Wn GGz.
n, And wilt thou be my own faithful, loving wife
And she wilted-Johnsoa's .aee.
And we shall live lovingly together in a dear Lit
z ue shanty-shan't we?''
And they shantied.-Lou Jour.
When the veil of death has been drawn hetvveer
Ss and the objects Of regard, how ouicksiobteI
~ We become to their merits, and how bitterly do w,
@ ,uen remember words or looks of unkndness which
nay have escaped in intercourse with them
s ,9S careful should such thoughts render us IN tn
hent of those Offices Of affection which it may ye
- N our power to perform For who can tell no,
f &eanI Ine the moment may arrive when repentane
i "Di'Ot pe followed by reparation.