The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-05-28
VARIETY.

sadder spectacle than the coffin.
For men. life picks its way through chances
as pedestrian through the thoroughfare.
Who lives nature. rarely can be poor; who live.
TO fancy, never can be rich.
If you would have T. blessing upon, your riches
bestOw good portion of them in charity.
Many dread being ill who very willing that
their lives should be
He who is thrown upon the worlds hard charity
Is thrown upon n rock
a good word is an easy obligation; but not to
speak i'll requires only our silence, which costs Us
nothing.
To be rake. and to glory in the character, dis
covers at the time bad disposition and a vuI-
gar taste
If you let trouble sit upon your soul like hen
upon her nest, you may expect the Matching of a
large brood.
1t is not the grandeur diminutiveness of the
objects, but the greatness tleness of the views
entertained of them, which affect and form the
character
I'll not willingly offend.
Nor be easily offended
What - wrong I'll try mend,
And endure what can't be mended.
Isaac AdIms late Of Boston, the builder Of the
famous Adams printing press, out Of which he has
made fortune, has retired to farm in Sandwich,
where IN his youth he apprentice = cabinet
maker.
Edward Nelson died at Bernardstown on the 10Th,
aged 81 years. 9 months and Is Jays. In 1857. Mr.
Nelson joined with many others in that part Of the
State in the famous and infamous Shzy's rebellion.
and participated in the attack upon the Springfield
arsenal
At n recent meeting Of the Asiatc Society in Lon
don, Colonel Sykes remarked the ignorance which
generally prevails in that country respecting the
people of India, who. since the beginning OF this
century have taken EI5D 900 900 of silver from
in return for their produce. India contains twenty
distinct peoples, who speak twenty-One distinct
languages.
The following story is told by Mr.. Gordon. in the
Life Of Professor Wilson just published 80 On Sun
day, in St. Johns Chapel, Edinburgh, an old gentle
man. a friend Of my fathers. sitting gravey in
his seat, when lady IN the same pew moved up,
wishing to speak him. He kept edging cautiously
away from her, till at last, she nearer, he
hastily mutterei OUT, - Sit yont, Miss-sit yOnt
D.nnl ye ken pouch is fu' o gemh eggs?'
\ queer caprice Of n literary enthusiast is that of
Mr.. Queensly, Of Cambridge, England, a great adj
mirer Of the Greek poets, who has given orders IN
MS WILL that afer hrs death hs body shall be dissect
ed and his skin taken of and tanned, IN such 4
manner n 10 convert it into parchment, on which
the Had OF Homer shall then be copied, the singular
MS 20 be then deposited in the British Museum.
Whether MIR. Queensy's skin will be found of the
due texture for such purpose, We should think a
little doubtful Were he 4 sheep or goat. he would
answer the end better.
A correspondent with General Banks army the
occasion OF the re-occupation of Baton Rouge,
eountered group Of negroes in the suburbs. He
says ne asked 0f them If there we're any aooIi-
tOnists in Baton Rouge
IS No mls'r. de rebels tooks dem all off,
a. Indeed what do they do with them 90
." Dey shoots 'em, slap, masr.'
$50 suppose You know what abolitionist is,
dent you;''
Yes. mas'r; what de sojers call cartridges
That suficed.
SENSIBLE ApvICE-Professor Silliman, Of New
Haven, recently closed a Smithsonian lecture by Civ
ing the following sensible advice young men If,
therefore, you wish for clear mind and strong mus
cles, and quiet nerves. and long life, and power
lOnged in old age, permit me 10 say although am
not giving n temperance lecture, avoid all drinks /
above water and mild infusions of that fluid, shun
tobacco opium, and everything else that disturbs
the moral state Of the system; rely upon nutritious
f0oi and mild, diluted drinks, of which water is the
base and you will need nothing beyond these things,
except rest, and due moral regulation of all your
powers to give you long, happy and useful lives and
serene evening al the close
THE DE.TH OF A WIFE-'Thc death of an old mans |
wife Is like cutting down ancient oak that has
long shaded the family mansion. HeDcefOrth the |
glare Of the world with its cares and vicssitudes,
fal upon the old wiiower's heart and there is moth
ing TO break their force, shield him from the full
Weight Of misfortune. IL Is if the right hand /
Were witherei; il wing Of his angel /
oroaeu, and every movement that he made brought |
nim 10 the ground. His eyes are dimmed and CLASSY
aud the film of death falls them he misses
those accustomed tones which have smoOthed his /
passage 10 the grave
ExrRAvAGANCEs OF FAsHIOS.-After speaking Of |
the towering - sky scraper" bonnets now in vogue
Aiorhei WIKI cOl0red ostrich feathers, and the i'm
HIehse ~ bows Of whire muslin the throat,
a'l The mode, the New York Post alludes to a
rOr, which - looming up among the uPer and
e4UA tashOnables of Gotham Ii Is proposed to
Dc the custom of wearing hair powder; aad the
-. I'ers that at several parties, ladies have ap-
ft.eo with their hair done up in ANTIQUE STYLE and
"a'se with powder.