The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-02-24
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blind man, like newspaper, requires a leading
article
good cow gives down her boun,ies like small
providence.
Lovers, like armies generally get along quietly
enough till they are engaged.
Conscience is monitor, but fear the monitors
IN most bOsOms are iron clad
There few preachers who recant. but great
many who cant
Near sighted soldiers bravest. for they can't
see the euemy.
Poetry calls 4 tear to beauty's eye oftener than il
wins q smile to her lip.
Love and bad weather things had better
keep Of If we
An ilyeerate novel reader is not likely 20 improve
though he or she turns over hundreds Of leaves
every day
IL is important in guiding the of your
bosom as in protecting your treasure to keep your
chest locked.
Whilst ordering the arrangements in front of your
house, don't forget that man Is often Judged by his
gait.
\ quiet and witty combines the qualities of
two kinds of champagne, still and sparkling
\ young married girl rather than be shot
by her Notwithstanding tina; miss better than
hit.
Many a person would be less pleased at being
crowned with bays than being able TO drive pair
OF them
Oa most occasions the Importance Of calmness is
in exact proportion TO its difficulty.
the time that Is with Even 20 what dive.ts III
the present give the name of pastime.
Although the Devil Is sad to be the most powerful
and formidable OF created beings. il s safer ight
him than any other living thing
The twilight steals the earth like mourniul
thought the SOU. And IN our sVTrowful moods,
as amii the shadows Of the evening, stars III
heaven that before invisible
Happy are they to whom the gods have given
either perform actions worthy to be recorded or TO
write things worthy he read happier still they
in whom both powers are united
Theology climbs the mountains. chambers and
slips. Religion dweIis by the stream \ man must
return from bis theology IN order 10 reach ms re!l-
gion; aad then he vii. and out that his religion -
his supply OF theology
\ LONG PULL \ STRONG PULL, &c.-I remember,
;hau hfry years ago. the political excitement;
when Caleb Strong was the candidate OF the Federal
marty for Governor Of Massachusetts,. The follow
ing the rally-words Of n heated campaign
a long pull a pull and pull altogether
Recently came across the stauza containing those
words but DO not know the author -
A light boat and a tight bost, and boat that rides we'll
Though leap around it and the winds blow snell
- BosTONIAN.
Active, brisk.
a certain Yankee who a stranger to mirrors.
and who stepped into the cabin of one of our ocean
steamers stopped in front of large pier glass which
he mistook for door. and said
Il say, mister, when does this here boat start: -
Getting reply from the dumb reflection before
him. he again repeated
81 saw mister when does this here bJat start y
Iucensed a; the still silent 6gue, he broke out
Go to thunder. you darned, sassafras cOlored,
shock headed bulI-clif! You don't look if you
knew much, any how -
The MONSTER BELLS OF THE WoRLD-ln making
large bells Cudness rather than pitch Is the object,
as the sound be conveyed to n much further
extent. This accounts for the enormous weigh; OF
some of the largest bells st. Paul's for instance
weighs 13 900 pounds the bell Of Antwerp, l5OOV
pounds oxford Il 900 pounds the bell Of Rome;
$4,000 pounds Mechlin. 10000 pounds Bruges'
$4,000 pounds York, $4,000 pounds; Cologne,
% 900 pounds Montreal -, 900 pounds: Eriurt,
80 900 ponnds - Big Ben - at the House OF Parla-
ment, 81 600 pounds NovogorOd, $1,000 pounds
Pekin, l39 600 pounds Moscow, l4l 900 pounds.
But as yet. greatest bell ever known is another
famous Moscow bell, which never hung. Ii was
cast by the order Of the Empress Anne IN 1898 1T
lies broken on the grOud, and Is estimated weigh
433, ~ pounds. II i nineteen feet high, and meas
ures around the margin sixty-iOuE feet No wonder
that IL has never been suspended
Hawaiian Marriage Certificates.