The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-01-07
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An even mind is preiddiced one
Where Gods rod strikes US, his staff supports US
Pride costs mnch as hunger. thirst, and cold.
Death has nothing terrible, but what life has
made so.
He who does not bring up his to an honest en-
ployment brings him up to be thief
The very thing fear is often brought to pass
by the means they use to prevent il.
Think before acting Impromptu deeds often
as miserable as impromptu verses.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing
is nearer than heaven 10 earth.
Second thought is said to be better than first but
first childhood is better than second.
Perhaps the best definition Of the brink of ruin is
the brink of the goblet.
The most powerful men sometimes doubt their
power The feeblest
We carry within all the wonders that we
seek without
True love is nourished by showers of adverse for
tune the roses and violets by showers of vernal
rain.
A public speaker should never lose the thread of
his discourse. Like busy needle, he should always
have the thread in mis- eye.
That which happens to the soil when it ceases
be cultivated by the social man. happens to himself
when he fOolishly forsakes society for solitude; the
brambles grow up in his desert heart.
The following is genuine copy of a bill made out
by the ostler of country inn in Somersetsbire
Aforthehos (hay for the horse.) Sd; clninhoansha
Cleaning horse and chaise,) Id brininonmomigin
(brDgiag him home again.) 3D.: total, Is. Id.
man proves himself fit 70 go higher, who
shows that he is faithful where he is. A that
will DO well in his present place because he longs
to be higher is fit to be neither where he is yet
above it.
4 Vermont farmer sent orphan asylum for
81 boy that smart, active, brave. tractable,
prompt industrious. clean, pious intelligent. good
looking. reserved and modest. The superintendent
plia1 tfatY Yhpi- h0yc b,rura
were orphans and referred him to the New Jerusa-
lem, if he wan ned to get his order filed.
Mr.. Reynolds, the dramatist, met free and
easy actor, who told him that he had passed three
festive days, ut the seat of the Marquis and Mar
choness of -, without invitation He Ind
gone there the assumption that. my lord and
lady not speaking terms each would suppose
that the other had asked him and SO it turned out.
WANTED. expert needle-women to make babies
bodies. Well that beats all - exclaimed Mrs. Part
ington. throwing down the newspaper. ' Did any
body ever hear the likes, I always said il
good teln' Natur' she didn't know how to do her
own work when they instructed them steam
and donkey engines. But this impOsterous idea of
maxim slop-work babies is enough make the poor
thing throw down her tools and shut up shop. Mark
my words, Ike, them sewin' machines will be pressed
into this new tangled business afore long. and then
all the emigan in the world won't be able to keep
down the supplice poppylation.'
MAKING HOME HAPPY.-Among the most promi-
evils of the is the practice of allowing boys
&c spend their evenings away from the family circle
The great duty of parents is to make home cheer
full and pleasant. In order to guard children from
the contaminatng influences of evil society parents
and guardians should that their children sup
piled with some cheerful entertainment at home
They shoud give them an opportunity of improving
their minds by gaining useful knowledge and furnish
them with books the expense of which would be far
less, than provide them with funds for amusements
away fro - home If parents do their whole duty in
interesting their children during the evenings, it will
prevent them from assocating with the vile and
abandoned that throng the streets; and with proper
treatment they will exhibit disposition to wander
from home. Many youths of good natural abilities
have been ruined by substituting the street and places
OF public resort for the family freside. The habits
Of the boy will cling to the man. His standing and
usefulness in life will depend upon the training re-
ceived under the domestic roof. Thousands OF BOYS
who would otherwise have inscribed their names upon
the roll of Immortality, have been ruined by un-
happy homes or the want of cheerful domestic cir
Gle Youth is fond Of pleasure, and if deprived of
1t at home, naturally goes elsewhere to seek it-.N
Y SIM