The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-12-10

the WIND pufhng from every quarter OF the compass. |
Coasters have made extraordinary long passages; we
hear of one, the John Dunlap, six days in sight of
Hanalei before she could fetch up. Others have been
three nights coming down from Maui. During
the past ten or twelve days the ships have been
leaving quite rapidly, and "clear water begins to
be visible in the harbor. The season is drawing to a
close, and quiet streets, southerly winds, and para
lyzed pockets are close at hand. Unless some ingeni-
GUS body gets up q newspaper controversy. unusual
stagnation must result.
KISSING EXTRAORDINARILY have heard of loves
kisses, unbought, unsold, which poets have vainly
sought to embalm in verse:
"Soft child of love-thou balmy bliss, |
Inform me, o delicious kiss,
Why thou so suddenly art gone |
Lost in the mement thou art born"
We have heard, too, of forfeited kisses, and read Of
stolen kisses, which some have had to pay dearly for
before the bar of blindfolded Justice, but kissing as a
trade and a livelihood is n novelty, originating with
a Hawaiian maiden. On Monday last, a Hawaiian
female, named Maunaloa, arrived from Hawaii, via
Lahaina. She is esteemed by the natives as one of
the handsomest of her race, though we cannot discern
anything progressing in her features. So great was
the admiration of her gallant countrymen, that they
were willing to buy a kiss from the girl, who does not
think with the poet, that
"The kiss you take is paid by that you give,
Inc Joy Is mutual. anu IN SnuU III lei |
Not SO our fair Hawaiian. The value of a thing is
just the price twill bring. And her Hawaiian broth
ers, eager to honor the maid, rendered a quarter or a
half for delicious kiss" SO great was the crowd
about the girl, that the police were called in to escort
her to her friends. An amusing incident is told of q
Kanaka who brought a $40 piece to purchase a kiss,
and wanted her to change it and give him $40 SO.
She, with true female spunk, spurned the bargain,
saying her kiss was worth the full piece. Miss Maui
naloa is from Hawaii. and we learn has never before
visited Honolulu. She has come to purchase a house
for herself and parents, and the prospect is fair that
she will succeed, as she has collected already some
thirty or forty dollars. Il
FEvER.-With the growth of Honolulu, we mdN
expect to have the plaques of large cities, the increase
of filth and garbage on every vacant corner and lot.
1t is no idle talk-Eionolulu is becoming a filthy
place, and the public need no greater proof of it than
the fact that the typhus fecer has at length appeared
here. Few if any cases have ever been known here be-
fore. Physicians call it the typhus fever as it resembles
that more than any other. Some six or eight cases
have occurred, mostly among children, some of them
very serious ones. With the utmost vigilance on the
part of the physicians, none of the cases have as yet
proved fatal. The disease appears to have commenced
about four weeks since, and we see no check for it,
while such quantities of filth, cook house garbage,
and other refuse, are allowed by the authorities to lie
around in many places from month to month. We
call upon the authorities whose business it may be,
to take some active measures to insure more cleanli-
ness in the town. The Board Of health, if we can
Judge from its acts, is rather in favor of the towns
going to corruption. Some more energetic officers
must undertake the work. or it will never be done.
RIsLEY's vARIErrEs.-No better evidence of the
superior character of the performances given by this
company of artists can be adduced than the fact that
they have played every night to frst-rate houses
from the night of their first opening. On Saturday
afternoon last they exhibited before one of the most
select audiences that ever assembled to witness q per-
formance of any kind in Honolulu. His Majesty and
suite, and the commanders and officers of both the
English and American men-of-war in port, honored
the Professor and his troupe with their presence, and
all expressed establishment at the wonderful feats of
Monsieur Devani, and much satisfaction at the class
ical evolutions of Risley, Master Charles and Devani.
This company comes here we~ll-recommended, as the
book of autographs, containing the names of a large
number of the most celebrated characters of the age,
in the possession of Mr.. Risley, before whom his
troupe has performed, well attests. To those who are
curious to see into what peculiar shapes the human
body can be placed, we venture to say no better OPP
portunity than the present to crafty their desire
will they ever be likely to have in Honolulu. The
music, under the direction of MIR. Dickerson, was
excellent, and met the approval even of the most
critical of the audience. The performances vary
every evening. On Saturday afternoon next they
give another day performance, and a crowded house
will, doubtless, honor them with their presence.
Capt. WILDER, for a long time associated with Mr..
Risley, and who has charge Of the business depart
ment, also attends to the seating of the audience, and
HE roptlomoplv jannrtmanf and 1onp aynariapco in
his business, is sufficient guarantee that the most
strict decorum will be observed inside of the Pavilion.
The SrEAM-TuG PELE.-There seems to be some
bungling management of the tug. Last Monday.
she was chartered to carry three captains to their
ships, which lay out of sight from the town, a dis
lance of twelve or fifteen miles, and the charge made
for the service, which required three or four hours,
was $45. About two weeks since, when the wind
was blowing in lightly from the southwark. three
schooners, the Kamoi, Ercei and Kinoole, all of
which had been delayed for several days, e1deavored
to procure the tug to tow them out, offering $40 for
the job, which would not have taken more than an
hour, at the farthest, as she had her steam up at the
time. The services of the tow-boat were refused,
unless 500 were paid, which was and is considered
an exorbitant charge. especially as the services Of the
pilots were not asked and some of the schooners had
to lie over a day OF more. This is not the fair thing.
If the tug is to be for the benefit of the public. let
them receive some benefit from it Here are the
coasters carrying mails, and frequently doing other
service for the government, without pay. and il Is
mean. to say the least, to deny them an occasional
benefit from the tug at . reasonable figure We hope
to see some reform in the matter.
" CLEAxLSEss NEXT no GoDLIxEssl"-M Theo-
dore Lehman has attached to the shaving saloon, al
the Merchants Exchange building, : splendid -
Room. and is now prepared to ADMINISTERS tot