Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1880-10-30
saHaalsaala -
Brevities.

falstan was fehSiOus - tnab is 10 Say,
sak.creligious.
The moon, like some mon, is the bright
est when it is full but like them again, it
soon begins to lose it's lustre.
Something noble, something good, some-
thing pure, something manly, something
god-like, is knocked off man every time
he gets drunk or stoops to sin through for
getfulness of God. cough.
"What did tho Puritans come to this
country for ;" asked Massachusetts
teacher of his class. d" To worship in their
own way and make other people do the
same, was the reply.
While Tanners fast was in progress, the
editor of tho Boulder, Colorado, Ne,os
and Courier, drew courage from it and
announced: I" If Tanner survives, we shall
stick to journalism forty days longer.
What pity that big heart is SO often
compelled to keep company with n small
income l. Ne,o York Ne,cs. Rather, what
n pity that big income is SO often compel
led to keep company with small heart
Boston Transcript.
A medical authority says: "Laughter
is one of the greatest helps to digestion,
and the custom of our forefathers Of ex-
citing it at the table by jests and buf'oons
was founded on true medical principles.
An old Scotchman attributes the disap-
pearance of ghosts from the Scottish moors
to the custom of tea-drinking at social
meetings. 1t requires Scotch whiskey on
the top of old ale to enable man to see
ghost really worth talking about.
The negro's definition of bigotry is rs
good and as inclusive MS that OF Webster s
Dictionary. "A bigotl said he; "why
he's man who knows too much for one
man and not quite enough for two.
The gentlemen at the dinner table were
discussing the familiar line " An honest
man is the noblest work Of God," when .
little son of tho host spoke and said " It's
not true. My mothers better'n any man
that was ever made. {"
Two gifts are seldom offered to mon in
this world; they very seldom can have
both. One is success with weariness; the
other failure, with hope. The man who
succeeds finds that his success does not
amount to a great deal, the man who fails
bu. keeps his hope, is the happy man.
An old Yorkshire woman described he'
happy circumstances thus: "Ive n nice
little cottage, a chest of drawers and a
pianpy, lovely garden and some flowers
in nv window, aud { waxing warm my
husbands dead, and the very sunshine o
'Eav'n seems to fall on me.
Dean Stanley was not equal to hi
opportunities when ho performed the mar
riiage ceremony Of Prof. Tyndall. The Dea'
should have asked tho groom "Do yo'
take this nuthropoid to be your Co ordinate
to love with your nerve centers, to cher'sl
with your whole cellular tissue, until
molecular disturbance shall resolve it
organism into it's primitive atoms
A popular author says: IL have no pre-
pensity to envy anyone, least of oil tn
rich and the great but il Iwere dispose
To the weakness, the subject of my env
would he healthy young man, in fu
possession of his strength and faculties
sroinR forth in tho morning to work for h
wife and children, aud bringing them HON
his wages at night.
A patent medicine advertisement read
thus: "When lethargic feeling pervad'
your system when you have d's'nclin,
tion to move about when you have an al
horence to exercise, your liver Is Inactive
This will be glad tidings to many peop
who have always thought they were laz
when they felt that way. Now they WI
know that il was only their liver that wi
lazy.
A promising youth recently surprise
his father by asking-"Father, do you III
mother 2" s'why, yes, of course: Al
she likes yoap" "Of course she does
"Did shs ever cay SOP Many tim
NV son. "Did she marry YOU becaa
she loved youP" Certainly she did
The boy carefully scrutinissd his pareu
aud. sfxsr long pause, asked -" We
was abe as .psar.sightsd then - she is now'
Whsta : monotouoas lifeit must have be-
in Eden, without those cheering aphorisu
that now eyrywherp brighten up re IAN
scape' making every soOh' Oh sS srstn;so,s ito M ~
vice as "Purify your blood /" "oas
Spherical siss sat !" r csnsamp,i0nn o o
hs cured &c. ~. &o. - Bpssos 4'a
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