The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-04-23
VARIETY.

Punch thinks the last language spoken on earth
will probably be the Finnish.
You cannot dream yourself into a character you
pu.t hammer and forge yourself one.
sosa roa CeEAKIso FoLDrNa DooRs.-Oh, had
we some little sweet lie Of our own
A lady describing an ILL tempered man says. " He
never smiled but he felt ashamed Of IT."
DR. Young suggests that should take note Of
Time But how do We know that the old spirit will
pay II at maturity!
Some gay and festive writer says that " vsroloid
il a mild and cheerful type Of the small pox."
Gaess he tried il on.
Western editor says that q child over
in the streets by wagon three years old and cross
eyed with psntaIes which never spoke afterwards
There is no danger of hard times among the shoe
makers because every shoe is soled before can De
got ready fer the market.
There is dentist in Russia, who gets his patients
TO pronounce his name, which instantaneously draws
out the tooth that acts, carrying along with II TWO
or three others
man has counted the different words used by
various authors Moiere used 5000; Cornsille 700;
Shakespeare $1,000; VOltaire and Goethe 2O,OoO
Paradise Lost 5000. and the Old Testamen. 5642
What charming thought there is in these lines
from the Birds OF Killingworth -
The awakening continents from shore to shore,
someghere the biris are singing evermore'
The celebrated portrait painter Stuart, once met
lady in the street in Boston, who saiuted him with
80 Mr. Stuart, have just seen your miniature, and
Il IT., because
And did it kiss you in return g? why no.
"Then," said Stuart. g twas not like me- y
PovsRTY AND RIoaEs.-There is not such mighty
difference as some may imagine between tie poor and
the rich. In pomp, show and opinion there is
great deal. but little "a to the pleasure fhu c9nie
nences of Iife They enjoy the same eaih, and air,
and heaven; hunger and thirst make the poor man
meat and drink pleasant and relishiis; as all the
varieties which rich mans table and ail toe
labor Of a poor man is more heaithfuI,: ana many
Times more nleasanr too, than the ease Gnd luxury
Of the rich
De ON Coop TERMS WITH YOUR PrLhsT.-The in
slant the head is laid on the pillow is thet IN which
conscience delivers its decrees IL It has conceived
any evil design, it is surrounded by thorns The
softest down ia hard under the restless head OF the
wicked. In order to be happy, one mus be on good
with ones pillow. for the nightly reProacnes IL
can make must be heard; yet 1t Is never SO decions'
50 TRANQUIL a. after q day on which one has per-
formed some good act. when one is conscious oil
having spent il in some useful or SUBSTANTIAL em-
pl0yment.
BeE.xy,sr AND DrssER-A great fault in the
ietetic system Of this country consists IN the fact
that most people supported mainly oy dinner
This meal is consequently too large and from TINS
unsuspected cause much dyspeptic suffering resuus
Patients persist in saying, can never eat oreak-
fast" The fact is the habit Of eating largely AZ
dinner has grown upon them that tney are 1lrtu-
ally supported by that single meal. ana nae .n no
apretite for substantial food at any other time.
Let the quantity at dinner be resolutely diminished
and breakfast will soon be spprecisted-Dr. Lear.
MODERN ECONOMY TINE
Cotton-One spin more cotton yarn nov
than four hundred men could have done In the same
time in 1869, when Arkwrght the best cotton spin
ner. took his 6rst patent
FTouT-Ons man can make as mucn hour IN u
day now as q hundred and fifty a century ago
Lace-One woman can make now as much lace
in n day a. n hundred women could q hundred years
ago.
Sugnr-It now required only as many days tc
refine sugar as IL did months thirty years ago.
Looking -GIasses-It once required SIX months &c
put quicksilver q glass; now 1t needs only fortS
minutes.
Eaginss-The engine Of the srst rate on-clad
frigate will perform much work in q day as forty
two thousand horses
LEIsURE-Leisure is never so enjoyable as wher
il Unexpectedly, like the visit of ong aosen
friend And be sweet il must be short Io'
much Of il pals upon the appetite Luxurious as
warm bath it is also as enervsting He who hnd
himself suddenly possessed Of leisure in great plenty
will do we'll dispose Of the bulk of 1t as soon a
plssible BIZ setting himself something serious to do
Systematised activity is Of the best preservatlve
against dull care" Leisure is but sauce OF llfe
which helps TO make work more palatable and dIges
tible-the one apart from the other soon become
disgusting. Men Of leisure, they are called, ar
most commonly restless, 6dgety and unhappy men
the kindest thing which can be done to them Is
deprive them, if possible, by hook or by crook.
the greater part OF their leisure. At hrst sght' J
does not seem so, but a very short experience vi
Of purpose-and life without purpose is per
petual burden.