The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-10-07
VARIETY.

He is not so good he should be who does not
strive to be better than he Is
When two opposite extremes presented to you,
II il generally safe a. well honorable TO play the
part of u go-betweeu
Why j. a beehive like bad potato! beehive
IL a b-hoIder, and behoder is II spectator, and .
specked taier is q bad tater
There are few who do no, think OF you more
kindly If you their request with atfectionate
denial than with q cold compliance.
"A man never INDUCES in low personal slang and
blackguardIsm in controversy, until his stock Of
argument and facts have been exhausted.
To smile the jest that plants thorn in another
breast is 10 become principal in the mischief How
few there ate who abstain from such smiling.
Broken resolutions than none at all; il
only proves do not carry out the dIciation
of conscience. aud exposes our weakness.
"OId age coming upon me rapidly" the
uTchiu said when he was stealing apples from su aid
man's garden, and saw the owner coming, cowhide
IN hand.
wag Of editor says: &" Two weeks ago Sun
day. we rode OF church a splendid silk robe
drawn by lady full six feet distant. Mentally we
replied Where's the use OF street cars?'''
There is al excellent precept which he who has
received an injury. who thinks he has. would for
his own sake, do we'll to follow, Excuse half and
forgive the rest
Two old New England Ministers we're riding b. O
galows when the elder one asked the other. " Where
would you be II that tree bore its proper fruit 2!
Riding alone. sir, - was the immediate reply
..Seep. like death, is great ieveIer,' said Mr..
b, yawniug, he closed a large volume just
before retiring; " Plato. while asleep. greater
than any other mortal; ergo, when asleep I'm as
great Plato"
A Botany Bay auecdo,e tells Of convict who got
on so WE'LL that side of the world (Australis) that
he rose the magistracy; and making some hard
reflections person brought before him whom he
Sned FIVE shilings the delinquent retorted, " There's
the money: | remember the time in Eugsu when I
should have liked much less to meet you with FIVE
shiliings in my pocket
\ SMART LAD A boy from the country recent
ly taken into gentlenan's family One evening.
after having been called up into the drawing room.
he down into the kitchen laughing immod-
ers,ely "What the mstter''' cried the cook.
''Why." said he there twelve 'em up there,
ring for I 10 do it,
MUsKEErERs.-
The pessy all Gods creeters
have finally ketched it. hav bin like a man
led to the slaughter, and had my blud sucked out
Of N as tho il only swete cider and belonged
to somebody else. I a peace, but, low
and behold there amt q piece in but is bit
and puckerei and
The devils angels huvring near.
retired last night TO at the usual time. On
the left side me. and about 2 feet adjacent wuE
the side ov the house; the other side of me and
about feet adjacent In MI wife droped 10 sleep
: snowflake dug on the buzI1m of a slvery lake
q have Gint iiee that this last sentence for luvli
ness kan; De bea; bandy.) | dreemei good sized,
bot dreem.
II fel; ike the breath a Kanada thissui
Around ri head a trying o whisseI.
Suddenly / woke; the room was full ov yels and
shrieks Of despair. l dashed wildly across the
liz lite harked Ov mi most reliable
harks- Awl wuz still-stil as q crows nest in desd
oy winter. gszed case though were tryin to
thred the wrong end Ov Of cambric needle Away
IN the distanse, solitaire and alone kIose up to the
ceiling. chawin his cud, \ little gray cuss I
dipt q towel into q basin water and rung IL
out L krept up under the little gray cuss-I tick
aim and tired,
And hit the spot
Where the H-t!e gray
Awl vuz still again. / onIit the candle and sought
my couch.
slep. again IS Onls the virtuous kan slesp.-Josh
Billings.