The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-08-05

The London AtheRemn has this paragraph :
g Everybody, we suppose, has by this time read
1.-The Battle Of Dorking : SO we may point out
to those who have not already guessed it that the
general commanding the army corps to which the
narrator is supposed TO be attached, who had
served more than fifty years, and had been made
a peer for services performed when quite an old
man. is Lord StrathnuIrn, while the artillery
general who is killed by a round shot is Sir Harry
Tombs.' The same journal attributes to Mr..
Laurence Oliphant the authorship of the fanciful
story of "The Coming Race"
Pull. SHERIDAN was recently interviewed by a
reporter of an Illinois paper, and he took pains
to correct a number of misrepresentation that
had been made regarding his opinions of the Ger
mans and French. Instead of being always in
the rear, the crown prince was always where he
ought to be in battle, when necessary, at the front.
60 have seen him even amidst a shower of balls. -
| As for Prince Carl, whom he was represented as
calling a charlatan, he had never even seen him,
and had formed no judgment of his merits. King
William is a fine old gentleman and a good gem
eral, possessing personal courage and bravery in
an extraordinary measure. Sat ravelotte saw
him in the thickest of the fire." So far from be-
ing a fool under Bismarck s rule, he has a deci-
ded and firm will of his own which he maintains
in spite of the chancellor. Bismarck is by far
the greatest man In Europe, and is besides a first
rate soldier. He said, further, that he had been
treated very kindly at the German headquarters.
and propriety. if nothing else, would have pro-
bibited his making many of the remarks attribu-
ted to him.
PAINFUL SITUATIoN.-Out In Ohio, last week.
twenty Baptist clergymen, who are attending a
convention, went down to a secluded spot on the
river bank, in the afternoon, for the purpose of
taking a swim. These score of brethren removed
their clothing and placed it upon the railroad
track close at hand, because the grass was wet.
Then they entered the water and enjoyed them
selves. Presently an express train came around
the curve at the rate of forty miles an hour, and.
before any of the swimmers could reach dry land.
all of those undershirts and socks and things
were huttering from the cow-catcher and speed
ing onward toward Kansas. 1t was painful for
the brethren-exceedingly painful-because all
the clothing that could be found, after a careful
search, was a sun umbrella and a pair of eve
glasses. And they do say that when those
twenty marched nome by the r~efulgent light of
the moon, that evening, in single file, and keep
ing close together, the most familiar acquaintance
with the zouave drill, on the part of the man at
the head, with the umbrella, still hardly suficed
to cover them completely. They said they felt
conspicuous, somehow; and the situation was
made all the more embarrassing because that
night all the Dorcas societies, and the women's
rights conventions, and the pupils at the female
boarding school, seemed to be prancing around
the streets and running across the route of the
parade. Most of the brethren are now down on
immersion and altogether in favor of the use of
water only in sprinkling.