The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-11-04


TAIL ie" weeks ago. Among the really fashionable
women you might az we'll look for a cataract in the
eye as waterfall at the back Of the head
Mrs. l.. Maria Child writes a letter to the Inde-
pendent, in the course of which she uses the fol-
lowing language in regard TO the latest fashions
in hair:
:" Thinking of the great and blessed work done
during these last four years by in the Sanitary
Commissions the hospitals. and the school houses for
the emancipated. seemed 10 bright light dawn
ing our future career. But the vision recedei in
the distance, when | looked from my window and
saw beyy OF darnsels sailing by, with hencoops in
their skirts, and upon their heads a rmless pan Of
straw with feather in itutterly useless for defence
against wind or sun To make this unbecoming
mead gear stIIi more ungraceu there descends from
II something called by the flowing Of waterfall,
but which, in fact, looks like IA cabbage in u
net, tricked out with beads and wampuun. If l had
met them in Western forests. should have taken
them for Ojibbeway squaws. but their dress IN
mote PdTisienae This tyranny Of France Is sup
pose, Of the things that be endured, because
II cannot be helped, till brains better de-
velOped. In process of time, | trust the Empress
Eugene will sleep with her usrious ancestors, and
that other fantastic queen Of fashion will come
after her, to lead the civilized world such fools
dance What = set Of monkeys we are, in feathers
and furbelOws, dancing TO the Of that imperial
shOwwoInin.'
The New York Sun tells Of un occurrence
which happened to young woman in that city,
which should induce ladies to be cautions as 10
the contents Of their waterfalls, and that they
properly attached TO the head:
" Miss Essex, weIl-d dressed young woman, resid
ing at Greenpont, standing at the corner Of
Thompson and Canal streets, waiting tor when
n man-a painter, all Notwithstanding short
ladder his shoulder, rapidly turned the corner,
and not judging the distance right, came near strik
ing the lady the head with end of the ladder
he carrying. As luck would have il, perhaps
ill-luck, the ladder missed the woman's head, but
struck her WATERFALL detached it from the back
hair, and caused general discharge Of the CONTENTS
which combined the following articles Two curei
hair puEs, one piece Of mourning Grape, two dark
cOUTed pincushions, and black wOrsei stocking.
These articles had previously been carefully covered
up by the slender locks OF the maiden. Amid mani
expressions of regret the very innocently COM
menced 10 pick up the paddings for the purpose Of
returning them the wearer who retreated in great
confusion, without waiting for her dry goods lit
tie boy after her with the late fall, but
the lady refused to recognize them. The reporter
gave the boy a dime for of the pincushons, and
intends 10 keep it a specimen
The following items are in place here
The last invention of India rubber, in Paris, is
n false bust for females-hust and neck'-a perfect
imitation OF flesh and blood and (as they say of good
counterisits) well calculated TO deceive At the
circle where the and false neck Connected i3
worn a band of ribbon or - wide necklace, which
completely eouceis the iunctiou 1t = said That the
deception is perfect that The closest scrutiny ai!s
to detect II. while the false bust adds amazingly to
the looks Of ladies. when in bali room attire
with low neck dresses
'' \ sample the fall style of bouuets which has
arrived IL New York iiom Paris is described as
awkward, uhauractire, coal -cutile shaped affair,
possessing no cOnmeniablr feature whatever Cooley
for October has ibis awkward style pictured in it"
Episcopalians in America.
The following facts were elected by
discussion in the religious papers. In the United
States there are 2OOO Epscopalian clergymen
whereas, the other Evangelical denominations
there have 10000. OF the 220 colleges III the
United States, the Episcopaiian4 have 9, Evan
geIiral denominations l32 Three Epscoralian
colleges had the start of most of the Evangelical
colleges 10y 100, - and 80 years, yet they have
educated only 700 youth whereas so 600 have
been educated by the other Christian denomina-
tions. Episcopacy has $50 students now in her
colleges, the Eyangelcals have $4,000; and in
June Of this year there were more persons study
ing for the ministry in the Theological Seminares
of the latter. than the whole number of clergy
men in the EpiscOpalian ministry The Episco-
palians report 90 candidates for holy orders
there are 202j studying ia Seminaries of the
Evangelical denominations besides those prepar-
ing outside of Seminary walls. One Presbyterian
Congregation in New York city, that of Madison
Square, contributes $2S 900 annually for benevo-
lent objects, while the lj7 congregations of the
western diocese of New York gave only $4,000
for charity and missions. There are in the
United States 100 GOO members in the Episcopal
denominations. to four and half millions of
other Evangelical denominations. ~
DR.. II. NJ. scudder.
We last week referred to this very popular
preacher. now located in San Francisco, whose
lecture on India we heard. In the Bulletin we
find an abstract Of the same which may interest
our readers.
q DR.. SCUDDER's FIRST LECTURE or INDIA-A
large audience heard DR.. Scuiier's first lecture
India ut Platts Hall. last evening; and it very
ENJOYABLE mixture OF fact. fun, eiOgueuce and earn
estneSs lie considered India in its vastness and
tquity-with dimensions 800 by 1900 miles; with
broad table lands where the lcks moisture as the
tiger does blood where rolls the mighty Burram-
pSoter and the Ganges on whose bosom floated the
navy of Grecian couqueror 1000 years ago; where
the mountains the highest earth, and where
exist the ancient civilization and literature. lie
spoke Of its various racesOt the aboriginal remnant
still existing, and Of the two great streams OF Imml-
grafton which formed the HndOOs Of to-day; c! the
Brahmiuical race, who identical in origin with
ourselves: Of the numerous languages, all enriched
by what they have absorbed from the Slnscr, which
last the lecturer said he had studied twenty years,
AMI believed, with Sir William Jones aud other
eminent scholars lie the most copous. rich. refined
and artificial language known. and in some lost
origin with the Greek. DR.. Sculder here read and
chanted a number Of passages of Siuscrit poetry. i
which charmed the audience less by their musical
sound and the cousCmmIte rythmical art they /
evinced, than by their pOetcal and pnllosophlcaI
meaning shown by tTanslatiOns- lie also gave (
reading from a Hndoo dialect, which on account OF /
its melody is called the Italian OF India lie men
toned incidentally that in India all literature worth
preseryug-n law, science, religion and bellies iet-
tres-s written in poetry and chantei as OF DID, H.
stead OF being read Thus poetry was the very germ,
as IL is the highest product Of all literature We
shall not pretend follow the lecturer in his rapid
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