The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-16
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pray, madam, what makes you sedate ,''
Oh. have taken a sedative."
Marriageable young ladies prettily called
waiting maids.
The man who lives for himself alone lives for a
fellow.
Laws like cotwebs, which catch small flies,
but let wasps and hornets break through
Drinking water, neither makes a man sick nor in
debt, his wife n widow.
Four things come not back; the broken word
the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected
opportunity.
A young girl generally loses her freshness by
mingIing with fashionable society, bright stream
does by mingling with the sea-
IL is n great blunder in the pursuit of happiness
not to know when have got it; that is. TO be
content with reasonable and possible measure Of it.
Ii is too late TO learn what it is always
eessary know; aud IL is shame to learn, so long
ignorant;-that is to say, so long we live.
Country LiFE-Tbe country is both the philos-
opher's garden and library, in which he reads and
contemplaies the power, wisdom and goodness Of
God
The IL huence Of men is not to be confined to the
circle of their acquaintance. Ii spreads every
side of them, like the unduations of the smitten
water sad reach these whom they never saw
residing at Angoueme, in France, fell
into a sleep profound that she could be awak-
ened: and after sleeping ten days, six hours. and
thirty minutes during which time she of took
no sustenaDce, she expired.
Never delay ,ill Tomorrow what reason and con-
science tell you ought be performed to-day. To-
is not yours; and though you should live TO
enjly il, you must not overload it with burden not
its own.
Charcoal put to the roots Of dahlias, and other
Towering plants, will redden them vividly; flowers
nearly white being thus turned TO deep red, some
times altogether, ana sometimes mixei with the
lighter hue in half dozen varieties, from one and
the same root.
Every morning we enter upon a day, carrying
still unknown future in its bosom Thoughts
may be born today which may never be extinguished
Hopes may be excited day which may never
Tre Acts may be performed to-day, the consequence
of which may not be realized till eternity
Industry may be considered as the purse and fru-
guilty its strings, which should rather be tied
with bow than n double knot, that the contents
may not be too difficult of access for reasonable
purposes
\ gentleman, when the cholera was raging in
London, complained to his iandlady that the water
with which she made his had a strong and uu
wholesome flavor .' Well, sir said the landlady,
" [ only account for il by the graveyard at the
back Of the house. The spring must pass through
it, The ledger rushed franicay from the house,
and presently met Jerrod. to whom be communicated
his trouble. 81 suppose" said Jerrold. your
landiady thought you liked your tea like your port
with plenty of body in it :"
The ToMAro a. FooD-Dr. Bennett n professor
Of some celebrity considers the invaluable
article of diet, and ascrbes to it important medical
properties list. That the tomato is of the
1ertu aperfents of the liver and other organs;
where calome is indicated il is probably Of the
effective AID the least harmful remedial agents
known the profession ID That chemical
will be obtaned from il that will supersede the
Of calOmel in the of disease Sd. That he
has successfully treated diarrhoea with this article
alone 4th. That when used article of diet it
Is almost sovereign for dyspepsia and indigestion.
9th That il should be constantly used for daily
food either cooked raw. or in the form of casup. 1t
Is the most healthy article now in use
OLD MEx FOR CoUxsEL-YoUxG MES FOR WAR,
The above aduge is good as it is old, and may
well apply TO our generals of to-day. Give the
caution Of age to PLAN but the dash of youth to exc
cute Old generals in the war council. but young /
generals in the field. In with the south. we
must have generals who combine activity and militia
~ knowledge and better under 40 years of age than
over go Ii is reProach 10 our present crop Of |
generals assert that age has disqualified them for
Getire service All the successful cheftains the
the world has ever have been young men, |
Alexanner the Great conquered the world and died /
before he was thirty two; Juias Caesar died hfty
Elk, the conqueror Of FIVE hundred battles; Hannibal
won the battle OF Gamma before he was thirty one;
Charemagne gained al! his laurels before he wss
th1rty-six; at forty, Henry w., of Navarro, had /
oercOme all his enemies and placed himself on the
THRONE Of France; Charles XII, Peter the Great,
hossuth and Garibaldi, their military glory in
early life Frederick the Great. forty three with
population of five millions sustained himself against
a league OF one hundred millions. Napoleon
commander-in Chief Of the army of Italy twenty
of hia anu ler ne became emperor, the average age
VI DIS marshals was only forty-four. The generals
opSssed TO Napoleon had been famous in their youth
out . their faculties were frozen by age'' Washing
ton was the same age as Napoleon Washington
opened most brilliant military before he
was out OF his minority, and at the close of the Rev.
9ution was only go Perry fought the battle of
Lake Erie at the age Of 27. Jackson's glory culm-
niIeu ~ New Orleans at the age of AZ. In the war
" 4odz we began with Armstrong, Dearborn, Hamp-
.Sn' nun, Winchester. (aIl exhausted in the Of
tue eVolntIon) but after suffering terribly from de-
,s'' we al them aside, and took Brown, Harrison,
md Vol lIoff fharn
young men. !