The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-04-25
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Ii is said that parsons help de- but per-
haps doctors do quite as much in that line
Next twenty four grains, there is nothing like
mans pocket to make penny wait
Only marry me, my dear lady. and you will have
the end Of trouble" Yes, sir; but which
ends''
81 always manage to carry my pint . fes,
you generally manage carry at least three
The lack Of money Is a weight upon the bosom, the
possession Of money heaviness in the chest
couple of fellows carrying argument with
rapers seem exceedingly intent upon proving their
points
city paper says that Capt Travis will give salts
faction all who visit his pistol gallery. We don't
think many Of them will demand It.
The population of England Is about y 10000 of
whom only IS, 600 proprietors of the soil.
Texas derives its name from Indian word, sig
nifying - beautiful
Thomas Hood once admonished gossipng Christ
ian beware lest her piety should prove, after ALL
to be nothing better than Mag-piety.
Method said Cecil, afterward Lord Burleigh,
Is like packing things in a box; good packer will
get IN half as much again as bad one"
d, Won see this stick. sirs'' said very stupid
Acquaintance Sidney Smith - This stick has been
all round the world SIR :. Indeed - said the
m0rsele-s Sidney 3. and yet 1t - only stick The
story - venerable but pertinent
When Oliver Cromwell once went into a Catholic
Church he twelve statues Of massive silver
What are thoze5 he asked Of his attendants The
trembling priest replleti wy titey Tue 5lt-
tues Of the Twelve Apostles Take them down, said
Cromwell and turn them into coins that ike their
master they may 60 about doing good
The DISTINCTIONS six degrees Of crime are
thus defnel He vino steals million is only fnau-
cer- Who steals half million - only defaulter
Who steals = hundred thousand : rogue Who steals
fifty thousand IS a knlve. But he who steals pair
Of boots loaf Of bread, Is >coundrel Of the deep
eSt dive. and deserves 10 be lyuched-
is meu grow rich they grow mean Why know
men-pious men, vino actually perjure themselves
about the value OF their property that they may save
what - Justly due the city for taxes They are as
meln-weil. melHness has tunnelei them from end
end. aud the biggest one lies through the heart,
and the Devil daily runs his trains through and
through - says Henry Ward Beecher.
COxrENTSrESr.-If you satisfied with your lot,
it l. wisdom to rest cOutentei Many a man has re-
ueuei IN coffee slcks and ashes for giving good
situation hoping % dni a more lucrative one. The
most thIt expect % make IA this world - a
comfortable support John Jacob Astor with his un-
told millions shining dollars always stickler
for economy. and # be had preference for an en-
pIoyee, for him who observed prudence IN all
things. His wants were cIrcumscrIbed into very
small compass by the remembrance Of his younger
days when ne struggling with the Ills Of life.
Conteutmeut i truly a fortune TO him who is the
po-se-sor OF that rich jewel
TIE VALUg OF : NEwsPAPER-The New York
Ceutnrg. Of the a5e=t journals IN the country,
ir an article the influence Of newspapers IN the
family, says:
1T = possible that we overrate the influence Of
the newspaper As an educator, but We think not Ii
i the voice Of the living world IL Is history, art
philosophy, science. truth, justice, rhetoric, gram
mar aud everything else-not unmIxed with false
hood and nonsense, not more mixed than the home
infant school for girls. from which boys break away
before their bones Of the grStle- Take gram
mar natural history. rhetoric and composition
Where are those 80 well taught a IN the CAREFUL y
e,iiteI newspaper What better lesson IN rhetoric
than some popular writer or famous scholar
roasted alive che hot Goals Of criticism Where
are better examples Of tasteful composition: Where
l. a better cabinet Of natural history What IN al
the world escapes the newspaper eiitor2 And II h'
commits bIundeTs IN grammar. OF logic, or fact, OF
philosophy, is he not forthwith served upon grid
iron by another eiitOrs Where, but in the newspa
per- will be found a running history Of the day
Where else you told what books You may safely
buy what are not worth putting on your shelves
and what would be hurtful TO the minds Of your
children IS henbane 70 their bodies ?"