The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-05-23

but let King Kalakaua have children. come
how they may, to III up his kingdom" In the next
column, in a TRADE upon dry goods, the -Nltos
writer says I've have entirely too many dry goods
which . : tempt more good church going wahines
to folly than al other influences put together"
Heretofore I have always found in the editor os
the -Nlh0u, a good deal to admire; and. I am sui
disposed to think that be possesses many qualities Of
head anu heart that, fostered in the genial sunshine
Of political success, would have borne good fruit to
this nation and nourished its best interests. But in
this last wild scheme Of breaking loose from the de-
cent restraints imposed by laws. human and divine,
on the most animal Of all passions, l recognize the
fact that political failures have withered up his fine
feelings, and semi-barbarous schemes rule in the
place of civilized common sense.
- funny little typographical error in a para
graph about the Mennonites in the Ga-efie, makes
them contradict, with the Land Commissioner or
a railway company By SO doing they created
q very favorable impression" Contrasting is
probably meant, but taking the word as it stands,
one eau imagine what q noise thirty German-Prus-
sian-Quakers would make "contraiicting,' /. c,
~disputing with s. Land Commissioner
= Your article On the cultivation and curing Of
coffee is very good and apTopos. If the money spent
on the .Nahou had been used in planting out coffee
trees, L venture to say that the returns in a few
years would be much more satisfactory. King Coffee
will do much better here than on the African coast,
and the growth of a few such articles in demand
throughout the world-articles that we can produce
better and cheaper than our neighbors-would keep
this nation alive and independent Ne do enjoy
having good coffee; and As we make our own sugar,
and milk our own cows, everybody who likes such
g condiments" as Mr.. Paryenu calls them, can use
them at cost price. As for myself, l think, in regard
to milk in coffee, that it is useful to discover the
flies more readily, but not an improvement to the
beverage. s. E.- o
&C. j. Lyons, who is nothing if not critical, has
dis-ilusioned some Of US in regard to heights and
distances. Facts are facts, but if our accurate Gov
eminent surveyor and his assistants go on cutting
down previously received estimates of the. extent,
breadth, and depth of our territory, we shall begin
to fear, with the Yankee in England, that some misty
morning we may "walk of the edge" There's
Haleaksla for instance. Many a time have We
Dragged of our mammoth crater, and now it only
measures 7x3 (mies). A mere hole in the ground,
hardly larger than the dent made by a ten-inch shell!
Again, the mystic meaning of the name Hsleakala,
We are told is not house of the SUM-" Well, con-
sidering how it shrunk when Prot. Alexander drew
his theodolite on il, | should not be surprised if Hale
akala meant " a caved in rat hole" = =
- Your special, in his description of the Makee
plantation, says: "The roses were not in season. -
That, 1 believe was the only misunderstanding the
igRiS fatuus business-that he made in his account.
the garden then in the parlor, the boudoir, or other
pleasant feminine resort. As for the igaiS fatuuS,
/ am at a loss to know from whence arose those
phosphorescent exhalatiOns on the plains of Maalaea,
noted for its superlatiye dryness and clouds of dust
IsUBsIDE.