The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-05-22

to-dsy's paper, ef%fectually disposes of the question OF
liquor licenses outside of Honolulu.
~ The members of the " Whangdoodle" Base
Ball Club, are requested to attend a meeting this
Saturday evening, at the Pacific Hose CompaDy's
rooms, for the transaction Of Special business.
A FREAK OF NATuRE.-A native brought a young
chicken into our Office the other day, a few weeks
old. and which bad three legs. Is this one of the
results of reciprocity For ourselves, we should
prefer more eggs and less chicken.
A LIVELY CRAFT.-The schooner Mile Norris,
Captain Lima, the regular packet between Homo
lulu and Molokai, made the passage from Kauna-
kakai this week ia seven hours, which we believe
is the best time on record between the two ports.
Dull TINEs.-Since the year when the boohoo
fever made its FIRST appearance in HonOlulu-over
twenty years ago--we TAIL to remember a period
when business of all kinds has appeared 80 fiat as
at present. Is it the calm that precedes the storm?
SrANP-COLLECrING.-Among the other fevers
now prevalent il one among the boys for collect
ing old postage stamps-or those which have been
used. To one of these youthful aud enthusiastic
collectors a pile of old inter-island letters is a
mine of wealth.
WERE THEY MUCH EDITED IA news paragraph
from Salt Lake City states that on the 11th of April
last. 10000 Latter Day Saints held the closing exer-
cises Of the Church, at which the only addresses
made were by a Sandwich Islander, who spoke in his
native language, aud Brigham Young"
MORE BURGLARs--A house on Emma street was
gone through " last Tuesday, some time between
the hours OF 10 and 2 O'Clock, during 'he absence of
the occupants, aud drawers and trunks thoroughly
ransacked in an evident search for money--of
which none was obtained. This is the second time
during a week at the same house.
NAvAL--A Hollands man-of-war was at San
Francisco at latest dates, and it is reported will come
to the Islands. H. B. MS Repulss, Rear Admiral
Cochrane, arrived there on the 22d, and u. S s.
Lacka,rannG, Captain McCaulay, from Yokohama,
on the 28rd April. The U. s. S. TuscarOra will be
due here shortly from the Navigator Islands.
BAsE-BALL--While the spellfuenza attacks all
classes, sexes and ages. the athletic amusement of
baseball has attractions for the young men only.
We note that clubs are being gotten up in town,
and during the ensuing summer months we may
expect a series of matches. This is as it should
be, for in this climate the tendency is not in the
direction OF too much out-ofdoor exerciseg 1.-THE
mind and the body should be continually flicker
else; and therefore ball playing, boat-rowing,
dancing, singing, etc, however surely they may be
censured by the Catos Of the age, are if oppor-
timely and properly used, extremely beneficial to
the body and through the body to the mind.
--
Music AND MOoNLIGHT.-1taly and the Hawaiian
Islands are equally famed for the splendor of their
moonlight nights. In the line of music, however,
until recently we had supposed that " Italian airs"
were beyond compare superior to anything to be
heard in these attitudes. Now, having listened to
the dulcet strains of the Chinese band on Hotel
street, last Monday evening, with the solo and
moon accompaniment, we are not so firm in our
former opinion. We felt like exclaiming with
Shelley:
Though the sound OverpOwers
Sing again, with that cats voice revealing
A tone
OF some world far from ours,
AAhare rnr.ic ann oil N raaInn