The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-09-19
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An ancient rhyme divides female beauty into
four oriers, as &sLL1ws
Loar aai lazy,
Talr and saB.h,
Dsrs and prHui-
Brown the other day, whilc looking Mt the
skelet1n 0f donkey, made very natural quota
tion. - Ah," said he, - we learfully and
rvouderf,liIy made
I BuINRps.-tirccley says s-.' Exccss IN play =
hu epidemic constantly spreading, and giving no
kisu OF abatement There are thousands in this
rity (for instanee) who spend more hours in the
billiard room than they give 10 any useful work.
Mcrc billiards n healthful. muscular recreation,
like bowling thi. excessive devotion 10 it-Often
IL unreasonable hour--wUuLl he culpabls. But
II H. hardly an exercise while the atmosphere Of
! D public billiard room ~ often close and foul,
with bar much handler than il need or should
be- Billiard playing, though not a vice in itself,
) y fast becoming nursery of vicc-the starting
foint OF n career Of rGinOus dissipation
UNE WORN DID u.-Oue day / was walking
with some friends through the - wilderness" at
SudbrOok Park, in Surrey, when DIR. Ellis drew
pur attention 20 large sycamore tree, decayed to
: fhe core.
i. THAT tin. tree said he. - WIS killed by
tngle worm"
La answer u our inquiries we found that abou:
, two yetrs previously the tree was as healthy as
INV In the park, when n WOODWORK. about three
inches long, WIS observed 90 be forcing its way
= bnder the bark Of the trunk. IL then caught the
ayc of a naturalist who staying here, and he
Unmarked .. Let that worm alone, and IL will kill
= the tree This seemed very improbable, but il
fas agreed that the black-headed worm should
. bot be disturbed.
% | After a time il was discovered that the worm
bal tunneled it, way a considerable distance
ier the bark. The next summer the leaves of the
tee dropped or very early, and in the succeeding
fear it n dead, rotten thing, and the hole
y babe by the worm might he seen in the very
leart OF the once noble trunk
All" said one who was present, "let
u barn lesson from that single tree. How many
kho once promised fair for usefulness in the
2 fOrid and the church have been ruined be- a ar
" san '''-Seiecfed
The PoPrLArIOS or CmSA.-A writer thus un-
y ertakes To convey some idea Of the greatness Of
he population Of China
=. e. THe mind cannot grasp the real import Of 50
hst n number. Four hundred millions What
lles IL mean? Count it. Night and day, with
Pt rest, or food. or sleep, you continue the weary
Pork yet eleven DAYS have passed before Won
hve counted the first million. and more than a.
hny years before the end of the tedious tack can
= reached."
He also suppOses this multitude 10 take up Its
p Of march, in grand procession, placed in
Do hge file at six feet apart, and marching the
Eeof thirty miles perday, except ON theSabbath,
hich j. given % rest I5ay after day the moving
llmn advances, the head pushing on iir toward
-. rising sun, now bridges the Atlantic. And
nd w the Pacific II crossed, but still the long pro-
- fsion marches on, stretching across high noun
IT, kns, and sunny plains, and broad rivers through
= fna and India. and the European kingdoms,
II, on again over the stormy bosom Of the At
fue- But the circuit Of the world itself affords
fstanding room. The endless column will double
=. fOn itseli, and double again and agnin, and
I'' fai gir,ie the earth eighteen times before the
at reservoir which furnishes these numberless
% ftitudes IL exhausted. Weeks months and
- roll away, and still they come, men. women
rs-. enlldren. Since the march began, the little
cry tsi has become man, and vet they come, In
ta'iing numbers Not till the end Of fOrty-one
w. VIII the last Of the long procession have