The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-23
News Items.

Some Of the English papers are calling on Queen
Victoria TO abdicate in favor of the Prince of Ws
The Queens health has been very poor for Soc
time, 1t 10 said. Added to this the seclusion
courts has rendered her unpopular with the +
ionable people. as well as with the shOpkeeperS
The New York Times has issued a triple sheet,
in English and German, and printed ia large
characters, in which are recapitulated ali its SX
posures of the Democratic frauds in New York.
The total amount of the frauds exposed by the
Times is SO, 7S9 1872 16. And it is believed that
these are but a 1.-THE of the thefts of the Tammany
ring.
ETYMoLoGY WITH A VENGEANCE-Johnsnn once
made a bet with Boswell that he could go into the
fish market and put a Billingsgate woman in a
passion without saying a word that she could IN
derstand. The doctor commenced by silently indi-
eating with his nose that her fish had passed the
state in which a mans olfactOries could endure
their favor. The Billiugsgate. lady made a verbal
attack common in vulgar paflance. The doctor
answered, "You are an article, madam" 10
more an article than yourself, you mis-begotten
villain" lyon are a noun, woman" YOU
you" stammered the woman. choking with rage at
a list of titles she eenld not understand. You
are q pronOun." The beldam shook her fist in
speechiess rage. You are a verb, an adverb. an
adjective. a conjunction. a proposition, an interjec-
ton ~ suddenly continued the doctor. applying
the harmless epithets at proper Intervals. The
nine parts of speech completely conquered the
old woman. and she flung herself down in the mud,
crying with rage at being thus 6 blackguarded lin
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she could not answer.
When Leland wrote Hans BreitmanD's "Barty"
more than ten years ago. it was extensively eircu-
lated and read. When be afterwards developed
his hero in a series of more reconcile and elaborate
ballads, these were better received by scholars
Than by the. multitude. The lucky accident of
choosing a fashionable toy as the subject OF his
verse restored Breitmann to popular favor, and
made him a ptcuniary success and no sooner had
this happened than a number of the critics turned
AGAINST him This 6IHprannp of faSta amnnN diff
ferent classes in regard to various productions of
the SAM author seems likely to receive a fresh
illustration in the case of Mr.. Hay. His " Little
Breaches " and a Jim Bludso.' though praised by
some critics, were, on the whole, greater ~favorites
with the mass than with the literdti. But I" Gilgal"
took strong hold of the scholars. They saw in its
quaint terms and pregnant suggestiveness a first
class specimen of the Bret Harte school. On the
other hand. the general public. which had ap-
planded the previous poems. hesitated somewhat
at this. Such is the authors own statement which
our observation conGrms.-Gdlaay. aH
Mr.. Henry Ward Beecber is not always the best
judge of proprieties and improprieties. but he has
done a good work in protesting against the absurd
fuss made about RulloF. Oh all morbid curiosity.
the curiosity which eXpends itself on a murderer
10 the most morbid and the most unreasonable.
The prestige OF seducer. false and corrupt as it
Is, rests nevertheless on the perversion of qualities
lovely and attractive in themselves. The admira-
ton which follows the successful speculator or
and which some times patronizes him
after he has met with deserved shipwreck. is still
and more vulgar Lut at any rate the tangi-
BILE fruit is pleasant, though it may have sprung
rom dirt and filth. But the deliberate and pro-
tessiOnal murderer is simply an enemy of the
human race, and the results of his work are as
chastity and repulsive as its motives are diabolical.
To daily with him is about as proper as to fondIe
a mad dog. Society is merely acting in self
defence when it exterminates such wild beasts.
and it ought to exterminate them swiftly and
silently, with no more delay or publicity than is
to secure strict justiee.-GaloTy. s