The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-04-16
VARIETY.

Little minds are ruined by paltry successes
Gratitude is a lively hope of favOrs to
Modesty, like perfect honesty, is scarce article
now -a-days.
Looking glasses not correct at forty they
appear to US at twenty.
A who does not blow his own trumpet has not
usually got to blow.
{" To err IS human to forgive divine,'' and he
who cannot forgive should never
The man who 81. kept his word" gave serious Of
fence Webster who wanted it for his dictionary.
'' Natcbless misery, has been declared to be hav-
ing cigar and nothing to light it with
The only hate apt to bear with Christian
patience, is the hate Of those who envy
country carpenter, mailing up board forbid
ding yagrants respass, placed it with the nscrp
observed a passer-by.
Those who eat eggs don't think of the pain of the
hen in laying them
When one vessel is wrecked another still sail
The silly goat at the foot of the bluff. Fools
always fare poorly.
The garden is never nggardly to its master.
If those old giants, who essayed to capture heaven
by heapng hills hills had gone to their work by
heaPing prayers upon prayers, they would have sue
ceeded.
MAKISG THEM RUN.-A traveller relating his adven-
lures, told the company that he and his had
made fifty wild Arabs run; which startling them, he
observed that there great merit in that for,
said he, g we ran, and they ran after u.s.
The Boston and White Mountain section of the
American Telegraph Company is completed TO Little
ton, Y. H. Offices will soon be opened in nearly all
the villages the line of the railroad between Little
ton and Plymouth, the portion Of the tele-
graph.
HARD BUTTER WITHOUT ICE-To have delightfully."-
hard butter in summer. without ice put a trivet or
any open fat thing with legs in saucer put on
this trivet the plate of butter ill the with
water, n common flower pot over the butter,
that the Is under the water. Plug the hole of
the flower pot with cork, then drench the flower pot
with water set in a cool place until morning. If
done breakfast. the butter will be very hard by
supper time. How many Of our town boarding.
school girls, who have been learning philosophy
trOnOmy. syntax and prOsO1y, write an explana
ton TO this IN n month
GREArxEss-AH greatness consists in this in
being alive what is going around one in living
actually; in giving voice the thought of humanity;
in saying ones fellows what they want to hear,
what they need to hear, at that moments in being the
concretiOn the result of the influence of the present
world In other way can one better affect the /
world than in responding thus TO its Eeeds. in en-
bodying thus its ideas. You will see in looking at |
history that all great have been piece of their
time; take them and set them elsewhere, and |
they will not ft well; they were made for their
day and generation. The literature which has left
any mark, which has been worthy of the name has
always mirrored what doing around it; not
sary daguerreOtyping the mere outside but at least
Etuecting he inslde-the thoughts, IL not the acuOnS
Of men-their feelings and sentiments, even if it
treated of apparently far-Of themes
HONE MUsIC-We take it to be true, with
eeptions wherever you hear great deal of music in
house. that dwelling is enanted by happy family.
1t you hear n domestic going geefully about her
work, and tightening her labors with song, you
may take it for granted that she has neither dis
eontented temper nor has she a scoding mistr, IS.
GIrls thai don't like their place are far more likely
TO 20 moping and grumbling about the house than
to hum pleasant iitty or carol a rounjelay. Then
you hear 6 the young ladies of the house IcttOut
the accompaniment OF the piano. triling n popular
air n merry catch, you may be sure they are light
hearted and happy, and good as they cheerful.
And what better proof Of happiness all around can
there be than the evening social concert, when old
and young, male and female. make melody with their
hearts, In houses the very purring of the cat
Is musical, most musical" while the warbIing of
canary bird is far sweeter than the dulcet Of
operatic voices And the recommendation of home
music IL, that it IS cheap well speaking and
J1y-inspiring.