The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-07
VIBRATIONS OF DIPLOMATIC INTER.
COURSE.

"Do you know what it is to the Minister
to have a man-of-war visit his post? First
the Admiral sends his staff officer to report
his arrival. Then they take a drink.
Then the Minister runs up his flag, and
sends n dispatch to the Minister Of Foreign
Affairs notifying His Majesty's government
that the Admiral has arrived and desires to
salute the flag.
"Then His Excellency replies, and sets
the time when the Admiral may shoot,
and his Majesty's big guns will all be loaded
ready to reply, gun for gun. Then the
bombardment takes place. Then the Ad-
miral calls on the Minister, with his staff
in all their good clothes. Then they all
drink. Then the Minister goes aboard the
man.of-war in his good clothes and the
AdmiraI's yawl. Then they all drink.
When he leaves the vessel, after being pre-
scented arms to, and all kinds of bother, he
gets only about thirty yards away when
his ears are torn and his head bursted by
the big gum of the vessel firing n fifteen
gun salute. The marines have their oars
neakcd and their eyes on the Minister. and
he is expected to take off his hat and give
horribly n CHASTITY smile as il he really en-
:oyed the honor of having his head bursted
III this way. Then the Admiral comes
ashore with his staff. and the Minister
axes him to call upon His Magesty's gov
arnment. We go first to the Minister of For
oign Affairs, who tells us when we may have
an audience at the palace to present the
Admiral and other officers to His Majesty.
Then we visit the other Ministers. the Gov
cmor of Oahu, the Justices of the supreme
Court, and the Marshal of the Kingdom {:
then we take a drink. Then the Admiral
invites the Minister to lunch. and they
rake n drink
Next day or so, the Minister takes the
whole party to the palace and they are
presented in due form to His Majesty.
The Admiral reads a little speech in which
he tells His Majesty how glad we are to see
him. and His Majesty reads IA little speech
in which he replies how glad he is to see
us. Then we talk awhile with all the
grandees. and after backing out of the
presence sign our names in n little book,
and the Admiral hurries on board the yes
sci to get his kidneys relieved from the
pressure OF his sword belt as soon MS posi-.
hle. Meantime all the other Excellencies,
representing every country under heaven.
have been sending notes to the Minister,
begging him to name the happy day when
it will please the Admiral to send n boat
for them to come aboard, and have n salute
fred for them. Then the Frenchman
always gets mad because he did not get as
many guns as he thinks he ought to have
nnu. anu inc AlllilSJtI HAS buIte lnOntnh
correspondence on his hands before that is
settled. You think it is all over now =?
The trouble is only about to begin. There
are dinners, lunch parties, dances, sere.
nades, visits to be paid, and the devil to.pay
if the foreign representatives do not receiv,
their return calls before the week is out.
"Why, it is a positive fact we n been
living since last September within five
miles Of the greatest sight to be seen in
the world almost-the Pail or 'Pari, a
precipice thirteen hundred feet high. over
which old Knmehameha drove the army
that opposed him and to-day is the first
day ] have found it possible to go up and
see it. That l ran away, literally on the
day before the mail closes. in order to see
it even now will trust be a fact Of some
significance. / have no time to write about
it, however, though l am stuffed full Of It's
beauty and grandeur. 1t will have t.
wait."-Ohso State Journal.