The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-09-26
VARIETY.

No wrong Will ever riSht lt7ell-
The Chsssepot rifles blow Oh the thumbs oi
the French soldiers
An English valet has just come into a fortune
Of l,OOO,OOOL
A lady recently died in Geneva who had been
in a state Of lethargy SIX months
Unfrieneled indeed is he who has no friend
bold enough to point out his faults.
China has rich mines, but will not let them be
worked, for iear Of disturbing the repose of the
dead.
A sure mode OF never succeeding with your
own plans ~ tO give much attention to those Of
other people.
As in n letter, IL the paper small and we
have much TO write, we write clOeer, - let Va
learn to cconomise and improve the remaining
moments of lifc.--Jay.
According To the old German custom, the sons
were 60 walk 10 church after their father, but the
daughters before their mother, To show that her
eve should never be of them.
It u not known where me- who Invented the
plough was born, Or where he died yet he has
effected more for the happiness Of che world than
the whole race OF heroes and eonquerOrs, who
have drenched 1t with tears and manured 1t with
blood.-LacOH.
CoJeridre WIS descanting. in the presence Of
Charles Lamb, upon the repulsive appearance Of
the oyster. - IL sn't handsome, Coleridge,' said
Lamb .. but it has the adyantagc OF YOU in one
thing - What il that? " sIid COleridgc, who
shut it, mouth" ," was the reply.
When the sultan wns in Vienna, Cardinal
Rauschen had an audience with him, in which he
begged his Majesty to do something for the anel-
iorttion Of the Christians IN his dominiOns.
.. Even at the present time, said the Cardinal,
every Christian il termed dog-Christian dog"
.. That " true replied the Sultan (; - but a
set-o to this here in Vienna every second or third
dog in the streets il called Sultan"
Here il n queer rhyme which il quite contrary
in sense, as YOU rend il across running the lines
together
always dit hntend To take 20 a wiG
single my ne % spend " You'd srisve nay very HS..
s,mabs ~ my mind The by can't express
nscr expert % nud, :" great u singisns-s
NV mini freely give, married b..
sI take it TO be ~ true Of the intellectual rs of
the natural creation, that it profits not n If
he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.
Let not, therefore, philosophy take up our life,
"a not To leave us leisure To prepare for death.
We may visit Athens, but We must dwell at Jeru-
salem We may take some turns at Parnassus.
but should more frequent Mount Calvary and
we must never So busy ourselves about the many
things, as 10 forget the one thing needful, that
good part which shall not be taken away from
US. s.'-Boyt.
Cosrocs, King Of Persia, in conversation with
two philosophers and ms vizicr, asked What
situation Of man l. most to be deplOred?' One
OF Tue llli-OlutrS t0lt IL was Oll
age accompanied with extreme poverty the other,
that it to have the body oppressed by infrm-
itIes, the mimi worn out, and the heart broken by
n heavy series OF misfOrtunes. :. know n con-
ditOn to be piticd, ~ said the vzier, :. and
II is that OF him who has passed through life
without doing gOod and who, unexpectedly
Prised by death, is sent to appear before the tri
bunal OF the Sovereign Judge"
TERRIBLE CONsFQU ESCEs OF 4 ANIsTK1NsLATIoS-
Professor Max Muller tells u in his new work on
the languages and religion OF the East, that when
the Government prohibited widow-burning in
India the Brahmins cited chapter and verse from
the Vela their authority for the rite 80 Let
these women, holding clarified butter, consign
themselves To the fire. Immortal, not childless,
not husbandless, well adorned with gems let
them pass into the fire" Thousands upon thou
sands Of lives have been sacrificed on the strength
OF this text, which proves to have been wilfully
mistransated by the priests chiefly BY the substi-
tuition Of the word aguet," fire, for ssagre,"
altar. Its real meaning il -. MAY these women
who are not widows, but have good husbands,
draw near with Ol and butter; those who are
mothers may go up first 10 the altar, without
tenrs, without sorrow, but decked with fine Jew
els" The Rig-ve,la, SAYS professor Muller, no
where sanctions widow-buning.
- WISH ! WAS RiCu.r-YOu do, do YOU
Well, We have heard the same wish uttered from
thousand Of lips other than yours. How much
better of do YOU think you would be IL you were
nehE Have YOU counted all the heart-raeking
cares and anxieties that invariably attend the
Possession Of riches? - could work when I
pleased and play when I pleased; / could sur
round myself with all the iuxuries Of life, could
entertain my friends in style, and be happy
an, could you let us sec. Once released from
that steady employment which necessity has mad.
~ habit with you, you would soon eloy with
Mrs4 - U~high living, and superficial friends, and
IL NJ, seen relish for life which you now enjDy
il Nr y. sgined poverty. We say " imagined
pGesr zr riches and poverty consist Of condi-
Hds - rather than IN the possession Of
s1dHr G0 N <res, or the lack of such possession.
0sgs 0sgs.. Teas 0Ie tub was infinitely richer than
Va Pm The toiling artisan, who sings
u Ii. sAts e2nd partakes of his humble fare
VIII =! ask aheart is a very Croesus when
sara,S eaied - bilious, cnre-wOrn millionaire.