The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-10-29
VARIETY.

FIOcks of Americans in Paris anxious to be
presented a court.
The smallpox is beginning to rage fearfully in
some parts Of Maine.
Ten thousand dollars paid for a safe passage
from Richmond to the Union lines.
DIR. Parke. the husband of the celebrated actress,
Amy Sedgwck. has recently died.
Confederate whisky is fine article of turpeutine
and water.
patent safety pocket has been invented against
pickpockets-
People get " embamed' and escape from Dixie in
Air holed collins.
A colored man 1OS years Of age, died lately at
Washington
The total receipts Of the Cincinnati Sanitary Fair
were S2GS,61l 80.
In refusing the tunnel Neal Dow exhibited the
strongest desire for Libby by-raton.
bIackbrd with a white head was shot recently
at Barmby Moor, York, England.
Guizos the Minister is writing religious medi-
ratiOns.
refugee that the rebel general officers are
secretly paid in gold
Iowa prOhib ed the circulation Of foreign bank
notes in the State.
Julia Whats Cudio's Cave9'' John 'sThe
negro. run into the ground"
''Out Of darkness cometh Eght.'' ns the printers
devil said when he looked into an keg.
When was beef-tea FIRST made in England When
Henry VIII. dissolved the Pope's bull.
Many persons purified and exalted by Sickness
ns IL the hand of disease had been stretched
them only TO make the sign Of the upon their
souls.
The name Of the church warleus of St Luke's
Church. Bristol. England. are Duck and Drake. the
bell ringers s Chick. and the two sections bear
the appellatious Of Pain and Pair.
swhy don't you limit yourself?'' said physician
10 intemperaie person; 4" set down a stake that
you will go far and no farther '' So do
said the topper; " but set il far off that always
get tipsy before get to it,
CURE FOR WARTs.-The following is said to be
eectual Steep in vinegar the inner rind Of a lemon
foT twenty four hours and apply it to the wart The
lemon must not remain on more than three hours,
and should be applied fresh every day. To apply
aeetic acid with camel hair brush is still better.
PHLOsorHY.-P. Junior has Il poem of peculiar
construction in the ever-exceent Boston Gazette,
from which We take this specimen brick
\ folly tits to think
That That drink
One'- trouble;
1t only makes double.
Up 10 the beaker's brnl
Your sorrows swim
You Sulp them down,
Perceive your woes
Thus being jolly.
And melancholy,
Through folly.
FAUTT-FISDISG WITH YOUR CHILDREs.-It is at
times necessary TO censure and punish; but very
much more may be done by encouraging children
when they DO we'll BE, therefore more careful to
express your appreciation Of good conduct than your
disapprObation Of bad Nothing more discourage
child than spirit Of incessaut fault fnding the
part of its parents; and hardly anything =
more Injurious influence upon the disposition both Of
the parent and child. There two great motives
influencing human acton-hope and fear. Both Of
these are at times necessary. But who would not
prefer to have her child influenced to good conduct
by desire Of pleasing rather than by the fear Of
Otfending' IL a mother never expresses her gratif-
cation when her children do we'll. ard IS always CEN
suring them when she sees anything amiss, they
discouraged and unhappy; their dispositions become
hardened and soured by this cesseess fretting; and
at last, finding that, whether they do well ill., they
are equally found fault with, they relinquish all
eEorts 20 please and become heeless OF renroaches