The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-07-30
VARIETY.

Few men are oppressed by their weight of charac-
let it never be said that when a man jumps for
joy. '' his delight knows no bounds"
DO complain if in attempting to cheat your
fe.ow-men, you teach your child TO cheat you.
The who grumbles when asked pay an
honest debt, deserves credit for manly character
y philosopher, who married vulgar but amiable
girl. used to call his wife 9 brown sugar." because,
he said, she was sweet but unre6ned
Jones complained Of bad smell about the post
Office, and asked Brown what i; could be. Brown
sail he didn't know but suggested that it might be
caused by g The deal letters
flag stolen from recruiting office in Prov
idelee few days since, and was afterwards found
made up into n skirt by Irish girl. She meant to
have patriotic balmoral.
An affidavit taken Mt Cairo declares that a quar-
ter musteT belonging to the Thirteenth Tennes-
cavalry was, while living, nailed TO board
by the rebels, and thrown into the flames of a
bur7ing building at Fort Pillow.
I1e proprietor of "A forge, not remarkable for
rec'ness Of language. bot who by honest industry
realized comfortable independence. being called
upon at social meeting for toast, gave I" Sue
cess to forgery"
soldier in one of the late battles, sitting very
coolly behind enc Of his guns. where the shot was
falling fast. being asked by the chaplain whether he
supported by Divine Providence, replied, 80 No,
sir; I AN supported by the Ninth New Jersey.
The following stauza, the marriage of Reuben
Wise With Matilda Cheeys, is exceedingly well told
and witty -
length she seized the profer'd prize,
ooh happy one, believe us)
For matrimony made her Wise
Before she Miss Cheevis-
The following is the verdict of a Saratoga county
coroner's jury, empanneled inquire into the
Of the death of Nathaniel Denton. while driving
ihe railroad track Simon's Crossing, about
n mile and n half north of Ballston, was struck by
the engine of a train which he did see, and
which from deafness he did not hear.
q Nathaniel Denton To- his death by a col-
W - nyine n - ,ob
exonerate the engineer from all blame. But
farther, we think the deceased and the engineer
might have seen each other. and perhaps, yes very
likely, have saved hrs life if the wood pile TO
had not been there ="
DISAPPOINTED man applied to Dr. Jackson a
celebrated Chemist OF Boston, with box Of specimens
''Can you tell me what that is, sir -
" Certainly can, sir; that is iron pyrites."
What sir - in a voice Of thunder.
" Iron pyrites''
'' Iron pyrites And what's that 30
a. That's what il is,'' said the chemist putting
lot n shovel the hot Goals where IL disap-
peaTed. Dross.''
And what's iron pyrites WORTH
Nothing"
g Nothing, Why there's woman in our town
owns a whole hill OF that-Gnd Ire married her ~
Sydney Smith said, never give way to melancholy;
resist 1t steadily, for the habit will encroach once
gave lady two and twenty recipes against mean-
choly-one was n bright fire; another TO remember
al the pleasant things said hear; another to keep
ooS OF sugar-piums on the chimney piece. and
kettle simmering on the hob. | thought this mere
trIng the moment, but have in ,ttsr life diseov
cred how true u that these little pleasures often
blcsh melancholy better than higher and more e1
aited objects, and that means ought to he thouoht
too tfifing which oppose it either in ourselves or
IN others.