The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-12-03
FARIET Y.

pail OF milk often drinks as much water as q
Those who aim at Heaven should take aim kpeeling
Misprison OF treason-askiL soldier to take din
and desert.
You can't do tha, again. said the pig, when
the boy cut his tail Of
A railway has Just been built in New Zealand about
fourteen miles in length.
Probably Eve took up with Adam because she
found herself no match for the Devil.
Boston spiritualist has discovered that cats hare
souls. Probably their heaven is the Milky-Way.
Falsehood used to travel in seven league boots
has kicked of its boots and travels by tele-
graph.
Ii you make Il thing perfectly plain and simple to u
man. he will give you credit-he will think he
knew it before.
There is 4 out west whose memory is so short
that IL only reaches TO his knees, consequently he
never pays for his boots
liza man talks iDsolently to you under the plea of
candor, you may knock him down under plea Of
infrmity Of temper.
- Sir will make you feel the arrows of my resent
naoat-'' Ab, Miss, why ehoui L yOuI arIOus
when you never had n teau;''
DIR. Lambee. the eminent Paris physician. says
electric shock il bring salvation 20 my
body dying from the effects Of chlOroform.
y great topper who had drank nothing stronger
than brandy all his life called for n goblet of water
his death bed. saying 90 When n man is dying he
ought to make up with his enemiec-'
A helping word TO in trouble is often like
switch u railroad track-but inch between
wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
A Christianity which will not help those who are
struggling from the bottom The top society needs
another Christ die for it.
Success IS Of promise till get il aud then it
IS q last years nest, from which the bird has flown
We cannot guarantee the return Of manuscripts
wh ich are deemed ineligible ; neither under
take unless real business send private
answers correspondents through the post.LoItdon
Paper.
Nearly every newspaper with large circulation
AMI correspondence ~ mpelled TO adopt q similar
rule. It Is always unpleasant TO decline returning
Communications, bat 1t Is literally like looking for
Il needle in a hnymow' - to search for manuscript
the Cfice of Editor. IL Is sIe and wise pre-
a copy, If Ihst you send IS worth printing II
1t s not is safer and wiser send To write
:or a hundred thousand people read demands time.
critical revision. and generally careful copying.
WHAT M,KEs A BUsHEL The following table of
the number Of pounds of various articles make q
busheI. may be Of interest some of reader -
Wheat. fifty pounds.
Corn. shelled. hfry- six pounds
Corn, on the cob. seventy pounds
Rye. 6fjy-six pounds.
Oats. thiTty-s pounds,
Barley, forty six pounds.
Buckwheat, fifty pounds
Irish potatoes, fifty pounds
Sweet potatoes, fifty pounds.
Oaions. sfry-seveu pounds
Beans. sixty pounds.
Bran. twenty pounds.
Clover seed. sixty pounds.
Timothy seed. forty five pounds.
Hemp seed, forty e pounds.
Blue grass seed, fourteen pounds.
Dried peaches. thirty three pounds.
Flax seed. Gfty- six pounds.
Castor beans, forty-six pounds.
Dried apples, twenty four pounds.
Salt. fifty pounds.
DOS'T LIKE Ny BUsISEss.-There ia n greater
hliacy IN the world than that entertained by many
young men that sOme pursuit in life can be found
wholly suited to their tastes, Whms aud fancies
This philosophers stone can discoveries; and
every who makes his life search for il will be
ruined. Much truth is contained in the Irishmnn's
remark % Ii IS never asy TO work hard Let,
therefore, the fact be always remembered by the
young, that no life work be found entirely agree
able Success always lies the top OF hill;
II would reach it, Can do only by hard per
severing effort, while beset with difficulties Of every
kind Genius counts nothing in the battle of life
Determined, obstinate perseverance, in one single
channel, everything Hence, should any youth be
debating in his mind change Of business. lining
he has genius for other, let hin once dis
miss the thought he would temptation 20 do evil.
II You think you made mistake IN choosing the puT-
suit OF profession you did, don't make another by
leaving it. Spend all your energies in working FOR.
aud cuging to II, you would the lifebOat that
sustained you IN the midst of the IyOu leave
IT, u Is almost certain that you will 20 down but If
yon cling 10 it, informing yourself about it until you
are ITS master, bending your every energy 10 the
work. success Is certain. Good, hard effort,
steadily perssycred in, will make your love for your
business OF profession grow; since should
psct TO reach period when he feel that his work
- Jast the one ne could have done best and would
nave liked best We allowed 20 see ard feel the
'oAshness IN our pathway, but none in others yet /
~ nave them.-HuHt's Merchants -UagGzire.