The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-11-19
RIETY.

Pride is the mist that vapOrs round insiguifcance
That's bat empty purse that is full of other
persons money.
He vino goes no further than mere Justice stops at
the beginning OF virtue.
Lost time is found again; and time enough
yet is always little enough.
We absolve man from gratitude when remind
him of favor; the object then becomes simply
debt-to be paid possible
IL is said that jealousy love- but this true
Jealousy may be produced by love, ashes by fire,
yet jealousy extinguishes love, ashes smother
fame.
An inspiring sight for a glazier-the early dawn.
when it breaks through the windows.
man mobbed through a wag's saying that
his wife daily imprisoned i'll an iron cage. 1t
turned out that the cage was steel hoOped skirt.
All innovation upon customs is invariably aud
sturdily resisted, and men known fight for
their prejudces who would not yht for their country
"Where you going." asked q little boy to
another, Who had slipped and fsllen down. I" Going
TO get up :" was the blunt reply.
"Ms, get down your hands and knees q min
ure please Why what on earth shall I do
that for, pet :" ." Cause want to draw elephant
A little daughter OF a proprietor of a coal mine in
Pennsylvania was inqusitive to the nature of hell,
upon which her father represented il to be large
gulf Of ere Of the prodigious extent. "Ps,
couldn't you get the Devil to buy coal Of you ?'
The thread which forms the spiders web, the mi
croscope informs us, is composed Of more than four
thousand of smaller threads, which are spun from
the body OF the spider.
A bad breath is the greatest curse the human fam
Iy Is heir TO. How many lovers 1t has separated.
how many friends forever parted The subject is
delicate; your nearest friends will mention it,
and ignorant OF the fact yourself To effect
q radical cure any denrif;e night and morning.
The following inscription is said TO have been
found n head board at grave, III the Sparta
Diggings, California:
- In memory
John Smith. who
wierleni death, neer this spot
Is hundred and 40 toO--He shot
by his pi5till
il was not one of the new kind
but a old fashioned
brass barrel and of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven"
4 CRUEL MOrHER.-Fhe scientific world Of Paris
was recently delighted the production of little
hippopoamus by the large hippopotamus in the jar
din des Plsntes The little hip frisky and seemed
determined live and thrive, but alas for the un-
certanties of life The mother which gave birth TO
her offspring in the water seemed nj first quite fond
Of IT, gave il nutrment, and allowed il TO lie her
back and neck. But night, in n sudden At of
rage, she seized the young with her formidable
jaws and killed it. This is the second time she has
been guilty of ufanticide. having repused her first
offspring, allowing it suck. When she
has another baby it will be taken from her and
brought up by hand
BLACK TALK. Crow, I want 20 Ak a conunder-
dunn - Well. julius. succeed. Ise open for the
queschum' " Can you tell me why de of self de-
fence am like de ribber at low tde''' 'NO, julius,
dount similarity in de two subjects, dsrfor
l CUBS um up - Wel den, III tells you-it is
simply bskase II developes de muscles. You is de
most iguamous niger | neber seed" Yah yah
| knowed all DE time hat dat was. only didn't
say muffin jist agn and see if l can't told
you"
A MIRACLE OF HoSEsTY.-A. party one evening,
several contested the honor having done the most
extraordinary thing ; Reverend gentleman was ap-
pointed sole Judge of their respective pretensions
One produced his tsilor's bill, with a recspt at
tschei TO il. A buzz went through the room that
this could not be outdOne, when
second proved that he hal just arrested his tail
or for money lent him.
4" The palm is his was ting generous cry, when a
third put in his claim.
''Gentlemeu,'' he said. "y cannot boast Of the
feats Of my predecessors, bui have returned the
owners two umbrellas that th'ty left house"
III hear more - cres the astouished arbi-
TRAITOR This is the very cs1e Of honesty II is
act OF virtue OF which never knew any capable.
The prize-''
" Hold ~ cried another. . have done still more
than that
Impossible " cried the '.hole company" Let
hear
g have been taking my ,..per for twenty wears
and paid for it every year in s.dvance''
He took the prize