The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-06-05
A Smelling Match in Boston.

The spelling fever was still raging " dawn East y
during the month Of May. The Boston Pot Of .
late date gives an account Of = match At Music Han,
in which Tufts College was beaten by the Institute Of
Technology. la tho latter are some Of our young
HAwAiiAns." one Of whom " fell before Giaour." ss
stated in the following description Of the match.
None Of the words given out at cur late match In
Honolulu viii begin to compare with some Of the
rSOondi,s specimens hurried at the Boston Boys;
The spelling match at Music Hall last evening be-
tween students from Tufts College and s,adsnts from
the Institute Of Technology, assisted by E few ladies
and some outsiders, proved to be one Of tho hardest
fought contests o. the season. By reason OF the re-
strietion limiting the erst ehoirs Of words 10 an edi.
ton OF the Transcript, the Grst tWo hours and q hall
Of the match was rendered very dull through the
non-effeetivenezs Of the word-dre. The last hear
was made unusually exciting by the ability Of the
contestants, and the whole was made exasperating by
the inartieulAte pronunciation Of the giver-oat Of the
words and tie unnecessary amount OF time consumed
by him in apologies, excuses, and personal explains
tions. The spelling itself was unusually goods 90
good, in fact, that the selection Of words FROM the
Transcript hardly served to decimate the ranks on
either side. The first word tina; aeored more than
one was Demoniacal. which was spelled Demonical
and Demonaical before IL vas spelled right. braEt-
letto was spelled 'siletto aud '~silletto. A Tufts boy
twisted the great aetress's name into Janausheck
instead Of 'schek. Skyed Was spelled with an ! on
the Tufts side. and the same side spelled sentient.
Centient. Eidolou was given Idolen and Idolonne
4 AACuNulk OF " u0NEN0 tNOs WIZ k4NC " away ea@
Pachouly Nothing eveDtful happened until Mr..
Lincoln struck the mysteries Of a lAdy's wardrobe.
and then they began 10 so down by ranks. Fichus
was spelled Faehieu, Ficbous, Fachuse. Fisshoes,
FichuIe, Fitchus, Fischuse, FiehuE, Fichuse and
Fisuse. Matelasse, the new kind Of silk, killed Oh
almost as many more and was appareotly In = fair
way 70 do for both armies entire, when some one
thought 20 protest against the words a. not Eoglish,
and the judges ruled them all out and the scattered
ranks gathered together again. Then one fell before
Giaour, and six before Cicisbeo. Cerisas - nunked
another six and was then ruled cut as q medical
term. Sechioum proved q valiant warrior 10 whom
nine surrendered. The next :" bad un was Ptys-
magog, which was too many for four. including the
last two representatives for Tufts, who after valiant
service spelled IL Phthismagog and Ptismagog res
left, but photography mortRlly wounded four.
Liqueur and Piel did for one apiece. and then the
remaining seven all went down before Tael, q Chinese
coin. This Of course left the prizes undetermined, 10
the seven came back and tackled Psyohomachy, which
slaughtered four of them. Then the struggle began
in earnest between the remaining three. Vieile,
Alguazil and Bourse were all spelled correctly at the
first try, and then all fell again before BoyAu. Goug,
Slough and Eyre were spelled, and Eyot was too
much for all. Table aud Wassail were conquered,
aud Onomatop9a was not, neither was Tighe.
Gbyll, nor Noyau. Finally one slipped on Meers-
chaum. and another on Euchamy, which was
took the hrst prize, q dictionary. The next two
prizes, engravings, went respectively 20 Z. y.
Miller class of '7S of the Institute and Charles n.
Wait class Of 'T6. Cheers were then given for the
ladies', the victors, and Mr.. Hosea W.. Lincoln,
master Of the Lyman school, who gave out ;he
words, and at IL o'clock the hardest fought match
Of the season was fairly ended.