The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-09-10

cigar in his mouth, and his feet upon everybody
desk or table, has become so noted q character, tina
an occasional notice of him is not amiss. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Sacramento UNION
under date of July 18th, has the following regard
ing him:
Mark Twain is in town, and I had quite a chat
with him yesterday. He is here for three or four
days, on private business, and has given up lectur
ing for the present, although overrun with offers. ]
suppose you known that $50 per night are the usual
terms of ordinary lecturers. Those of the supper
crust - get 500 a night. But Philadelphia recently
offered our California humorist $225 a night for any
reasonable number of nights Mark is rich now,
and l presume can afford TO decline even such terms
as these. Then, again, his father-inlaw has been
sick, almost unto death, at Elmira. Mark appears
to be q very devoted husband. His old friends IN
Nevada and California will remember how he used
to smoke pipes, and quaff lager and dress rather
slOuchily. Well, all this is changed. He now dresses
with good taste, never drinks or smokes. Such,
alas are some of the results of marriage. Un-
d~oubtedly he looks all the better for it, and perhaps
it is this that lends a finer quality of late to his
humor, which used occasionally to have a touch OF
grossness in it. But in all other respects he is the
same old Mark of yore. He is under contract
to write a new book, and wants to go of, as soon as
his father-in-law is well enough, to some quiet nook
in England or SOM other part of the world where
nobody knows him, and there write it. 1t must be
ready by next March. He is also engaged by the
GALAXY for a year, unless by mutual consent the
engagement is sooner closed. The other day he did
some I" tall telegraphing,'' as he rightly terms it.
His brother-in-law travelling, nobody knew where,
in Europe, was wanted home Immediately. Mark
telegraphed to Monroe & Co , the American bankers
in Paris, to telegraph all over Europe and ascertain
his whereabouts. In eight hours after sending the
dispatch to Monroe & Co., a reply was received here
that the brother-in-law was in Bavaria. Pretty
sharp work, wasn't it? And | mention this 50 that
some of the UNIONS readers, in similar straits, may
hereafter profit by the information"
REv T. SEARIE,s IECrrRE 1T was q rainy even
ing and not so many out as were expected, but the
weather or small audience had nothing to do with
the merits of the lecture. The reverend lecturer in
formed the audience that the said lecture was pre-
pared years ago for an Australian audience. 1t was
one hour and a quarter in the delivery, and yet the
time glided away pleasantly, for the speaker has an
agreeable voice and interesting delivery. His topic
was. Nj who have made themselves "a good
topic, and most of the illustrations well chosen,
although most decidedly English, but the lecturer
prepared the minds of his audience for this feature
in his opening remarks. He referred to " two dukes
and sixty earls, who had sprung I" from the ranks -
or rather according to his account of their origin.
from the lowest strata of society-from barber shops,
coal yards, and all sorts of queer places. Such
being the fact, surely the aristocracy Of England
have but little to say about " the pride of BIRTH
ludI DOTlIOu VI II ISCtuTCI . oulu appear
rather strange in print, coming from an Englishman.
Perhaps he would furnish a few paragraphs for some
one of our numerous weeklies, the Advertiser,
Gazette, Benefits ODn and Commercial Herald.
His next lecture-on woMEN-wil take place on
Tuesday evening, as per notice in another column,
and we hope it will be more fully attended.
We understand it is Mr.. Searle's plan to open a
school in Honolulu, as soon as arrangements can be
completed. -
The Boar RAcE.-Last Monday afternoon the Es-
planade was crowded with spectators to witness a
race between two fourteen-oared boats, belonging the
U. S. ships Rearsqrge and jamestown. The course
was from the seward end of the Esplanade to the
~bell-buoy outside and back. The winning boat
that of the Rearsarge, made the distance in twenty
six minutes, leading her opponent three minutes if
teen seconds to the starting point. 1t is but fair to
say, however, that the KeGrsarge's boat was much
the lighter of the two, and that her crew were evil
IDENTIFY in excellent training. When the boats met at
the starting point on the return, cheers were given,
and hands cordially shaken between the boats crews,
they of the jamestown, saying to the winners
9 well, boys, if we want to be beat you, we must 90
home for another boat" Considerable excitement
prevailed both among the crews of the two ships and
people on shore, and bets were freely offered and
taken. During the race, Her Majesty Queen Emma
and suite were the guests of Capt. Thornton and the
officers of the Rearsarge, which manned yards on
the Queens arrival on board. In the evening there
was music and dancing on board the jamestown.
ALL ABOUT A PAINT BRUsH.-Two natives, jour-
neymen painters, got into a dispute last Wednesday,,
after Office hours, on the stoop in front of the Post
office, about a paint brush which one accused the
other of having stolen. The dispute ran high, and
so did temper, until, getting closer and closer, they
clinched each other by the hair of the head and
went down together, rolling over and over on the
pavement. Blows were interchanged freely, but
there seemed to be a tacit agreement not to hit one
another in the face, but heavy sounding whacks on
the ribs was the rule, varied by occasional stOppages
of respiration owing to the throat being clutched
roughly. At last, when a crowd of sight
seers had gathered around, one of the combatants,
happened to be undermost, finding himself in
cried 'nuh," and the two walked OF un-
by the police, and leaving the paint brush
question undecided. 1t is not often that two natives
are seen fighting. and when they do, no damage is
done. -
WELL MERITED.-In one of the New Bedford
papers we find the following notice of a testimonial
worthily bestowed ON Captain Nye, whom most of
our readers are well acquainted with
Nnen the reDel pirate ioHeHdndOdn maue heE
raid among the whaling feet just outside Of the
Arctic Ocean, in the summer of 1866, Captain
Ebenezer T. Nye, of New Bedford, whose ship, the
had been destroyed, secretly escaped from
the ship Milo, which had been reserved py the
pirate to convey the captured seamen to San Fran
cisco, with eleven other men in two boats, for the
purpose of warning the whaleships in the Arctic of
heir danger, and succeeded in ehecting the escape
Of several ships. The Atlantic Insurance Company
Of New York, which had large risks on the feet, has
recognized the servives of Captain Nye and his
companions by forwarding the sum of $1,000 to be
among them. The New Bedford under
writers propose to double the amount"
PATENT CHOICES FOR & Co.
have received by the Eofani, from Boston, q new in
Eention for whaleboats, which is likely to come into
general use. 1t often occurs that after a whale is
struck, the line becomes foul as it runs out through
The chocks, and is damned, either by a kink or
oight, in which case the line must be promptly cut