The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-05-20

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

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NOTES OF THE WEEK.
FROM SYDNEY AND FIJI.-The Cffbf Melbourne
n will be due as above on Wednesdayhext the 24th
, inst. and proceed on to San Franciscdwithout delay.
A mail will be dispatched from the P~tt-ofice.
THE NEXT News from the East, ma be looked for
by the clipper ship Sumatra, due shttly from San
francisco en- route for Hongkong.
The steamer Moses Tayior, to succeed the Ne
6r0ska and to connect with the .Neada from the
South, will sail from San Francisco onthe oath inst.
due here June LIST. -
A CHALLENGE GIVEN AND AcCEPTEi-The sailers
of the Yacht Daunttess, challenged any of the yachts
that contested the late race, to run Or a prize to
Coco Head, and the Cara Bell, as will e seen by adj
vertisement in another column, comes calamity to call,
and accepts the challenge. We have aot yet learned
the day when the trial will come off.
HIS MANTLE.-The late Geo. D. Prentice, editor of
the Louisville Journal, was famous for witty sallies.
The following, from a late number # that PIPER
would Indicate that PreHtioe's rlaaie has fallen
upon bis successors shoulders IN exchange re-
marks that during the late war. me French haze
produced no cavalry Marshal Muat. They have
eaten cavalry horses enough to produce a martial
neigh" -
PIPE SMOKING AND LEPRosY.-It is suggested THAI
the practice, so common among Hawaiians, of pass
ing a pipe from one mouth to another in a friendly
group of smokers. may have something to do with
the spread of leprosy. That contagious disease is
spread through the s~ecretion', is well known, and it
is the saliva of the mad dog which imparts the poison
of hydrophobia. 1t would be well for all who have
occasion to talk with natives to drop q warming word
on this point. -
BANDMANx IN CAL1FoRNA.-Mr Balmann, who
with his wife will be remembered as haIng played
in Honolulu, has met with some trouble inCalifornia
He played a pretty successful engagement in San
Francisco, at the conclusion of which he vas arrested
by a former agent of his in England, forthe sum of
Ell, an old debt. The affair was COMPROMISED in
some way, after which we hear of the )andmanns
at Virginia City, playing to slim houses and being
insulted by a band of tin trumpeters in ne pit, W o
struck up a furious serenade whenever th t~ragedian
undertook to speak.
SERVED HIM REGHT.-The first case before the
Police Magistrate on Monday morning, Vas that of a
big native with a small wife, whom he vs accused
of beating. She displayed plain evidece of the
brutal treatment received, having been badly cut
over the eye, and otherwise bruised. Theman plead
Justification, but failed to show any. TheMagistrate
was of the opinion that Sc He who lays hi.hand upon
a woman, save in the act of kindness "-,ught to be
fined fifty dollars and costs. And thati what was
done. -
A Day OF MIsHAPs.-On Wednesday, the follow
ing mishaps occurred. A Chinaman vas thrown
violently from his horse on Beretania Steat, and lay
fiat on his back so long that it was tho,ht he was
killed, but slowly rising at length. he apparently
swore some in pure Chinese, and trotted OF after his
steed. Shortly after, a horse ran away witt a wagon,
out of which q woman and a child were thrown. but
not seriously injured. Later in the day, a natives
horse ran away with him, pointing straEht for the
wharf, and if he had not stopped woul have gone
As it was, he stopped SO suddenly that
the rider was thrown to the ground andhis shoulder
put out. He was taken to the Hospital fir treatment. I
THE FASTEST TIME.-California sho,s Eureka.
over a new horse which has recently nade his ap-
pearance at Sacramento, trotting his halfmile in the
time of 1:O7. This he ms done on
two different occasions and is the fastet time on
record. The chances are that the celebrated horse I
will have to " take a back seat.'i An offer
has been made to wager 81 900 that lie win do a G
in 2:15. The horse has a somewhat romantic
and, like many bipeds in thess days, his I
elevation from hard work and obscuriy to fame and s
has been rapid and remarkable. Not many 6
ago he did service ia a butche cart in Sac ;
aid was sold for the paltry sun of $50. l
paid $4,000 for him, and could probably /
$4,000 now for his bargain. TIL, pedigree of .
The horse is in dispute, but those who lave the best
reason to know state that he is a st. Clar. '
A CORRECTIONAL +" snapper-up of mconsidered :
rifles, alias, an itemizer, should havta care and !
get his facts right when trying to amus readers of
picy locals, especially when mentioning individuals.
\ worthy shoemaker, a German, who was repre- Z
in Wednesdays Gazette, as haing had a j
6 set-to with a Frenchman, felt so muh annoyed {
" the false statement, that he desires Is to correct :
thinking that if uncontradicted, even though his c
lame is not mentioned, it might prove detrimental &
o his character as a good, peaceable citizen, quietly |
Forking for an honest livelihood, and not q political =
rawler. The facts are, that the scizzrs-grinder, J
Inder the combined influences of crap, juice-or !
other juice-and the heat of the sun, and !
Crooding over the rough treatment la bdle France n
as received from the Prussians. imagined himself i
DR. the moment the avenger of his country. In this s
condition, " breathing out Threatening and :
Iaughter,' and armed with a dangerous weapon, s
e entered the shop of a schneider German tailor 9
and proceeded to make demonstrations towards !
killing q Pruszian." The Knight of the Shears, +
Ike his eountrymen in the late war, being attacked L
n his own territory, seized a stick and very sum- t
larily elected the trespasser, giving him as he de- =
,rved a sound thrashing. The shoemaker who lives O
ext door, seeing the F~renchman lying hors-de-
in the street, very charitably tried to act the p
art of the good Samaritan, and is rewarded by z
nding himself represented by the Gazette, as hav- =
Y gone into a political discussion and q fight. and l.
g getting weak on it, Such is fame. Well may =
2 exclaim with the kind-hearted man in the play q
III never doanother kind action as long a. l live. +