The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-04-27
VARIETY.

SCRlPs OF WIsDoN-Duty to ourselves is the les
son least attended TO-
Discretion in speech is greater and better than
eloquence
He not poor who hath little, but he that desirth
much
Thoughts weighed in silence are most likely to
develop into wisdom
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in
manhood just, in old age prudent
1t Is not the sphere in which move, but the
spirit which that makes life vulgar heroic
Keep doing, always doing. Wishing, dreaming
intending. Inurnuring, talking, signing, and rePin-
ing, idle and prOitless empoyments-
Looking to others for standard of happiness il
the way to be miserable Our business is with
own hearts and with our own motives
IL each party in II quarrel would condescend to
think himself III the wrong, a very few minutes
would amicably settle the whole difference.
People who brOod over their sorrows are usually
successful in hatcIing numerous family; and those
who - their rage to keep 1t warn are sure of
n comfortable temperature OF Indignation
One of the most important female qualities is
of temper Heaven did not give TO women in
sinuaton and persuasion in order to be imperiou; IL
did not give them sweet voice to be employed IN
scOldng.
The sweetest word in language is love. The
greatest word in our language Is God. The word
pressing the shortest time IL The three make
the greatest and the sweetest duty man perform
4 Sunday School teacher, deplOring the lack of
attendants upon his ministrltions appealed to the
few present. What do said he, s. to get
the boys AMI girls here?'' . KNOW said one Of
tine urchins- - What - It - . Give 'em all hve
cents apiece
One Of our exchanges thinks Mexico would be
better OF il NaDDlcun and Seward were both in
P.tradis,. To this another replies: Yes, but
how would tue citizens OF Paradise like it2
y man advertised lately to forward receipt
Of postage stamps. sound practical advice, that
would be applicable at any time and to all persons
and conditions Of life On receipt of the stamps
h. sent his victim the following: = Never give =
boy a penny To- watch your shadow while You
climb a tree look into the middle of next week.
Fresh AR.-Give your children plenty of fresh
air. Let them snuf II until 1t sends the rosy cur
rent of life dIncing joyfally TO their temples Air
i cheap and lOo,l- AMI necessary witha, that
every chill shoull have free access to 1t. Horace
Mann beautifully says - To put children short
allowance of fresh air i foolish it would have
been for Noah. during the deIuge to have put his
family on a short allowance of water.
WHATEVER Yor Do. IT WILLISGLY.-A boy
that i whipped school never learns his lessons
we'll 4 man that is compelled to work not
how badly it Is performed. He that pulls off his
coat cIeerfuy, strips up his sleeves i'll earnest and
sings while he works, IL the man for any body's
money.
"a cheerful spirit gets on quicki
\ grumblsr ia the mud Will stick
TaE ScRIPruREs-To reject the gospel because
bad men pervert it. and weak men deform it AMI
quarrel about IT, AMI bigote men look others
and curse them because they do not agree III every
little among themselves, displays the same folly as If
q person should cut down tree, bearing abundance
Of delicious fruit and furnishing refreshing shade,
because caterpillars disfUre1 the leaves and spiders
1aaIe their webs among the branches.-Bogue.
EVIL Co,rPAxY.-The following beautiful allegory
Is translated from the German
Sophronius a wise teacher. would not suffer
his grOwn-up sons and daughters 10 associate with
thos.. whose conduct not pure and upright
Dear father said the gentle Eulalia TO him one
day when he forbade her, in company with her
-. .T-..sr - H. 81.
you must think US very childish if You imagine that
We should be exposed 10 danger by it
The father took III silence dead coal from the
hearth and reached IL TO his daughter.
.. Ii viii not burn you, my child-take It
Eulalia did 50, and behold, her beautiful white
hand was soie,l and blackened, and it chance1
her white dress also
I've cannot be too careful IN handling Goals,
said Eulllia, in vexatiOn-
Yes. truly said the father; you my child.
that Goals, if they do not burn blacken; 50 i
it with the company Of the vicious
Ann At SoYFrHIxG-Arthur Gilman, in of
his uublic addresses tells what he calls - Andoyer
story One day, he says, a man went into a store
there, AMI began telling about a fire. . There had
never been such a fire. he sai - in the county Of
- Essex. 4 going by Deacon PettngIls barn
saw an owl on the ridgepole He fired at the owl,
and somehow other the fire getting into the SHIN
giles set the hay FIRE, and 1t all destroyed
of hay six heal of cattle the finest horse IN
the country etc. the deacon was nearly crazed by
IT, The men in the store began eXclaiming and COM
nenting upon it. - What a loss - says one ''N Why,
the deacon will well nigh break down under 1t,
slys another And they went on, speculating one
after another and the conversation drifted on IN all
sorts of eonjectures- At last quiet man who sat
splitting in the fire. looked up and asked " DID he
hit the owl - That man for getting at the
point Of the thing Let all public speakers in the
pulpit snd elsewhere. heel the moral Did you ann
at something, and did you hit what yOu aimed at
No matter about the splurge and the smoke, snd the
hay Did yotf hit the OWL