Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12


full report of lecture by Mark Twain,
the Californian humorist, from which thu
| following extracts will be found interest
ing, as touching the manners and customs
of the Sandwiches:
Sandwich Islands are situated about z, 10t
miles southwest from San Francisco.
wonder why they were placed in the mid
die of the ocean as it is none of our bust
ness, we won't talk any more about it. Il
is splendid sugar country, better than the
best of Louisiana land can get from 5000
to 1900 pounds of sugar raised to the
acre, but own no acres there.
The Islands are twelve in number, and
have volcanoes, the largest dead volcanoes
in the world Eighty years ago there was
a population of 400, 900 people. The white
men came brought civilization and several
other diseases, and now the race is fast
dying out, and will be extinct in about fifty
years hence They got consumptive when
civilization got there, and they will shortly
retire from business. When they pack up
and leave We will take possession as lawful
heirs. There are 5000 whites there, mostly
Americans, and they are still increasing
They own all the money, control all tle
commerce, and own all the ships. They
have a constitutional monarchy, but they
have no Constitution, and the monarchy is
only an empty name A Kanaka or native
Is nobody unless he has a princely income
of $15 annually, or splendid estate worth
500. The country is full of Office holders
and office-sAekers; there are plenty of such
noble patriots OF almost anv party OF
three men, two would be Office holders and
one an ofice-seeker In little island. halt
the size of one of the wards of ST. Louis,
there are lots OF noblemen, princes, and
men of high degree, with grand titles,
holding big offices, receiving immense
salaries-such as Ministers of War, Sec
retaries of the Navy, Secretaries of State
and Ministers of Justice. They make a
fine display of uniforms, and are very i'm
posing at funeral. That's the country
for petty hero to 60 to; he would soon
nave the conceit taken out of him There
are so many of them, that a nobleman
from any other country would be no.
body. They only lionize their own people,
and therefore they honize everybody In
education, refinement and culture, the sons
and daughters of our missionaries there
need not be ashamed to compare them
selves with their brothers and sisters in the
United States. And there has never been
a stain upon any of their names. The first
thing stranger does, on arriving at the
islands, is to collect shinbones of dead Kan
akas, fossils and coral, but he never sue
ceeds in carrying any of them away, be-
cause he soon gets tired of them-the
novelty wears off A stranger going there
now need not be looking for curiosities, for
in the backyard of every house he will see
piles of shinbones of dead Kanakas, heaps
of fossils. and stacks of coral. He will al
50, as first experiment, pick up about a
dozen Kanaka words; he won't talk
English; he won't say good morning like
Christian he will say allay-ho. One
man had been there three weeks, and he
came to breakfast with me. l asked him
how he would have his beefsteak-rare or
well done. Ee replied, Muckec-muckee
-guckee," etc. "Well," said 1, "you can
muckee, muckee, guckee, yourself out OF
this. won't have anything to do with
you" We can have any climate we want
in the Sandwich Islands. On the SUBMITS
which are 10000 feet above the level of the
valley, whose tops are whitened by perpet-
ual snow, We can have everlasting winter
and near the sea shore we can have ever.
lasting summer. A single glance of the
eye takes In all the climates on the earth.
1t was so cold on the top of the mountain
that could not speak the truth, but. on
level ground, can speak the truth as well
AS any other man.
The climate is wonderfully healthy, for
white people in particular SO healthy that
white people venture on the most reckless
imprudence. They get up too early; YOU
can see them as early as half-past seven in
the morning, and they attend to all Their
business, and keep it up till shutdown 1,
don't hurt 'em, and yet it ought to do so
| have seen it so hot in California that
greenbacks went up to 142 in the shade.
The volcano of Kee-law-ay oh is 1900
feet in diameter, and from 700 to 800 fee,
deep. Vesuvius is nowhere 1t is the
largest dead volcano in the world; shoots
up flames tremendously high. You wit
ness scene of unrivaled sublimity
and witness the most astonishing sights
When the volcano of Kee-law-ay- oh
broke through a few years ago, lava
flowed out of it for twenty days and twenty
nights, and made a stream forty miles in
length, till it reached the sea, tearing W
forests In its awful fiery path, swallowing
up huts, destroying all vegetation, riotine
through shady dells and sinuous canons
Amidst this carnival of destruction, males
| tic columns of smoke assembled, and formed
cloudy, murky pail overhead. Sheets Of
green, blue, lambent flame were shot I'D,
wards and pierced this vast gloom, making
all sublimely grand. After this burst Of
eloquence, he clapped his hands and the
audience joined, making the vaulted roof