The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-02-26
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY &c.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

e The third of the series of readings and lee
lures, under the auspices Of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association, took place last evening at Buffum
Hall. 1t consisted of readings, interspersed with
appropriate songs. Mr.. II. A. p. Carter read DIR.
Holmes September Gale, a humorous piece in which
the doctor bewails the loss of his favorite old
breeches. Mr.. S. b. Dole followed with Irving's
Rip Van Wrinkle, which was rather lengthy and
tedious. Decidedly the best piece of the evening, or
rather that which pleased the audience most, was
one of the I~ngoldsby Legends, read by Mr.. M'Cully,
in which Lady Jane narrates her Matrimonial expe-
riences. A second piece from Mr.. Carter, decidedly
too long, and Hoods Bridge of Signs, beautifully
read by Rev. Mr.. Bissell, closed the exercises of the
evening. On Friday evening next. Rev. Mr.. Snow
den will lecture on &c The Night-side of Life
JOHN CHINAMAN APPEALS TO THE PREss.-A sig
nifcant sign that the children of the Flowery
Kingdom" are beginning to appreciate the fact that
the press is a power in the land, may be found in the
following dialogue, which occurred the other day
between our reporter and the keeper of a Chinese
restaurant
Chinaman-"H How do. You takee cigar? likee
speakee you. You nusypapah man, Ell You makee
nusypapah 2"
Reporter Oh, yes"
Chinaman-S well, L VANITY you MAKE u talky IOr
one Melikan man he cheatee me too much. He
come here, board my house, takee belly good room,
he got belly good wife, too muchee silk clothes he got
plenty gold chain, too muchee big gold watch, belly
new clothes, two big tlunky, belly heafy L think he
got plenty money. He stop tlee weekly, he no pay
one dollar, then go C~aliforny in steam Didaho. He
no speakee me nothing. He owe me twenty-sixee
dollar, Ugh ! Melikan man fun Californy no good
too much cheatee :"
Our reporter promised to put it in the paper, and
so here it is, but John failed to give the name of his
ascending debtor.
FEBRUARY 22p.-Last Tuesday was the one hun
dred and forty-eighth anniversary of the Birthday of
great WASHINGTON, of whom it might fttingly be said.
as Ben johnson said of Shakspeare,-'tH He was not
for a day, but for all time.'' Byron-whose poems
are lust now re-read with particular interest from
the fact of his own story having been resurrected,-
was an ardent admirer of Washington. In one of
his poems, after wildly describing those leaders who
fight for glory and personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT alone,
he says:
And such are they-and such they will be found
Not SC Leonidas and Washington,
Whose every battlefield is holy ground,
Which breathes of nations saved, not worlds undone."
day was unobserved by any public demonstration
in Honolulu. beyond the display of flags on the con-
sular buildings and the shipping in port.
~ We invite the attention of our readers,
particularly those who did not hear it, to the address
of His Elk. 8. H. Phillips, which viii be found entire
on our fourth page. No one can peruse it without
gathering much information though he will fail to
the graceful and easy manner in which it
delivered.