The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-04-19
VARIETY.

Our merit procures us the esteem of men of sens
and cur good fortune that Of the public
The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit,
than merit itself.
s:inacy. We do not easily believe beyond what VIC
se-
Absence destroys small passions. and increase,
great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers aG
kindles fires
The spoiled children Of fortune, like those of the
nursery, are apt to be very empty, very arrogant.
and very offensive
An important difference between the surfs of the
ocean and the serfs of the land is, that the former are
free, the latter not.
The late comet was a good deaf like the productions
Of some Of cur yoluminous stOry-writers-a long tail
from a small head.
'Tha,'s very singular. SIR" said a young lady to
a gentleman, who had Just kissed her. "Oh, well,
my dear Miss, I viii soon make IT plural"
1t Is little trouble to tell n lie. but it ga great deal
@, trouble to conceal the fact that you have told one.
The cIII to religion Is not n call 10 be better than
your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Reli-
gOn il relative to the individual
How wisely Mature, ordering all below,
Forbaie on womau's chin a bvaTI TO grow;
For how should she be shaved. whate'er the skill,
Who's tongue would never let her chin he still.
No humiIitv Il perfect and proportioned, hut that
which makes Us hate ourselves as corrupt but respect
ourselves ~ immortal; the humility that kneeis in
the dust but gazes on the skies.--frcher Butler.
Hyou would have an iiea Of tn e ocean in n storm,
Just imagine ten thousand hills and four thousand
mountain-. alt drunk, and chasing one another over
rewly pioughei ground. with lots Of clverns IN 1t Tor
them 10 step into now and then
""What makes you look so grum Tom -
o I have had to endure u sad trial on my feel
ings"
What on earth was it?'
why. | hal 70 tie on Z pretty girls bonnet while
her mn was looking on
Beer, like the Flea. il subject TO HOPS. And again.
Beer i Ike n Bear; each - a breIriH. Moreover,
Ber i Ike a biri-being n swallow
r 4 Rrr,RT CorETEouS-One day, Mt the table Of
Cardinal R.chelieu, Bautru, seeking to amuse him.
INQUIRED of one Of the strangers present, "MOnsieur,
excuse me. but how dill they value asses in your
country, when You set forth 2" Those Of your
weight and size was the happy retort, lat ten
Crowns"
WHEN II \ Ntv-RrcH ENoUGH when q lad. an
OIL gentleman took the trouble to teach me some lit
lie knowledge Of the world. With this view | remem-
Der he one law a-keI me. when he has n thousand
pounds" He said. ..EC." 1.-TWO thousand - NO
'Ten thousand - s'No.'' "a hundred thousand ?"
which I though, would settle the business; but he
stlI continued TO say NO" l gave 1t up. and con-
Essed I could not tell. bur begged that he would in
form me. tie gTlveIy siid, when he has n little
more than he has, and that i never IL he acquires
one thousand, he wishes 20 have two thousand, then
fve, than twenty. then fifty; from that his riches
would amount 20 one hundred thousand, and so on
q he had grIsped the whole world, after which he
Wju!i look about him, Ike Alexander, forother worlds
~ ENarNrS AAAuN u bANfA NV = hN - 49,
g~-ntLeman's remarks since he made them TO me, ana
! AN happy 20 say, / have discovered the reason.
Full enjoyment. full satisfaction To the mind OF man,
ca only be found in possessing God, with all his IN
Unite perfections- It's oaly the Creator, and not the
Creature, that can satisfy.
TEE CLOsE or LrFE-AIbert Barnes, in his ser
mon on "Life at Threescore." illustrates the magnI-
tuie Of eternal things rs he approaches the end OF
he, compared with those which ordinarily occupy the
attention Of mankind, by the following figure:
The earth rs it moves In its orbit from year to
year, maintains its distance Of ninety-hve millions OF
miles from the sun; and the sun, except when seen
through a hlzy atmosphere, at its rising or at ITS set
ting. seems at al times to be Of the same magnitude
to human view and object always small, as com
pared with our own world. But suppose, the earth
shcGd leave its orbit, aud make It's way IN a direct
Inc towards she sun. How soon would the sun seem
% enlarge its dimensions : How vast and bright
you'd 1t become How soon would II hi the whole
eeid Of vision, and all on the earth dwindle to moth
Ms' 30 human life now appears TO me IN carrier
years, eternity appeared distant and small IN Impor-
anee- But at the period Of life which l have now
rachel, IL seems 10 me as If the earth had lett the
orot OF its annual movement, and were making a
naph and direct fight, to the sun The objects OF
eternity towards which I am moving, rapidly enlarge
themselves. They have become oyerpOweringly bright
sai grand They fill he whole field OF vision, ana
Se earth, with all which is the common object OF
human ambition and pursuit, Is vanishing away ;!
aged rea1er (, do you feel thus; or IS the Word
eyes,