The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-12-17
VARIETY.

Time does not wear out the sin of any guilt.
What is not good for virtue is not good for know
ledge
He that sins against man, may fear discovery, but
he who sins against God is of it.
Who is the industrious of all ploughmen /?
Time, for he turns the most furrows.
The anger which fushes the face is not so deadly
that which makes IL pale. The red heat is less
intense than the white.
We pause sometimes in path to scan our own
footprints. but it is late remodel retrace
them
Ceremony was always the companion of weak
minds; it is plant that will never grow in strong
soil.
Front bravely the object of your apprehen-
sion, and your stoutness will commonly make your
fear groundless-
In the affairs of lie activity is to be preferred to
dignity; and practical energy and dispatch is pre-
meditated composure aud reserve
He who brings ridicule TO bear against truth finds
IN his hand n blade without n hilt-one more likely
TO cut himself than anybody else.
The casting down Of yonr spirits in true humility
Is like throwing n ball on the ground, which makes
II rebound the higher to heaven.
The law of the pleasure in having done anything
for another IS, that the almost Immediately for
gets having gven and the other remembers eernally
having received.
A French naturalist has calculated that the num-
Der Of birds eggs and young birds destroyed in
France every year by predatory urchins and iults
amounts twenty millions.
1t is not exactly to suppose that genuine
wit is termed attic sat' because the gifted
authors usually reside in attics and have other
kind Of salt to put on their potatoes
Silence silence-silence in the court 80 ex-
claimed an irritated judge, at country assize ls
it INDUSTRIOUS that you will keep silence
This very morning we have decided dozen cases,
and not heard one of them =.
An old lady telling her grandchildren about
trouble in Scotland, In the course of which the
chief of her clan was beheaded. '' IT great
thing of head, to be sure said the good lady,
80 but Il n sad loss 10 him.
\ new route o India is being projected by gentle
men who have dealings in the East. Ii is proposed
TO lay a tramway over Mont Gents, TO shorten
the journey over that Pass Arrived at Susa, the
on the Adriatic. There, instead of Msrseilles. he
will embark for Alexandria, and save twenty-four
hours by this alteration Of route.
Some ingenious German, says a cotemporary, has
invented a paper cup, which will completely hold
draught Of the hottest liquid and be bought for
a farthiug By means of this invention the good
people Of Berlin take up and drink their ease,
they go along the railroad. the cups Of coffee which
comfort loving Engshmen find 1t impossible to sUsl-
low without scading their throats.
MODERN DEFISITIoSs.-Distant Relations: People
who imagine they have claim to rob you If you are
rich, and insult you if you are poor.
Belle beautiful. but useless insect, without
wings, whose ccors fade from being removed from
Housewiery IN ancient art, said to have been
fashionable among young girls and wives, bat now
entirely out of use. or practsed only by the lower
orders.
No bad man is ever brought to repentance by
angry words-by bitter, scornful reproaches. He
will fortify himself against reproof. and hurl back
foul charges in the face of his accuser. fet guilty
and hardened as he may seem, he may be melted TO
tears by gentle voice Whose, therefore, can re-
strain his disposition TO blame and find fault, and
bring himself down TO a fallen brother, will soon
find q way better feelings within. Pity and
patience are the two keys which unlock the human
heart They who have been most successful laoorers
among the poor and vicious, have been the most
forbear1g.
The following extract relates 70 the cost Of prov-
sious during the siege of Gibraltar by the French
and Spanish in 1777 :-'' During the siege the most
common necessares Of life exorbitantly dear.
Bad ship-biscuit, full of worms, sold at
shilling pound; four, in not much better condition.
the same price; old dried peas at shilling, and
fourpence half dirt-the sweeping of ships bottoms
and storehouses-at eightpence; old salt butter at
Two shiings and sixpence; and English farthing
candles sixpenee apiece. Fresh provisions COM
Inanded much higher prices. Turkeys sold at two
pounds two shillings; and one pound one shilling
was refused for a eslfs pluck"