The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-08-02

were duly installed by ID. ,. T., David Dayton
c. F. Horn.
L.. Patten.
Chas. Blackburn.
smith.
NJ. at stratemeyer.
X of r. and williams
NJ. OF Lucas,
d.. of II. Bruins
The GAzErrE's VAGARIEs-Says that journal,
=" Capt jerks of the RaiGkaaa reports having seen
on Wednesday last a large schooner supposed from
the description to be the CLaHs SPrseksIs, which left
this port at 6 O'Clock on Tuesday evening 22d inst.
Now in the first place, Capt. jerks does not report any
such thing. but laughs at the prepOsterous idea of
his By any human possibility having seen the Claus
Spreckels at the time mentioned, viz. the 23d, FIVE
days before his arrival at this port on the 28th,
seeing that the schooner sailed on the 22d and must
have gone of to the N. w. on the wind, while the
bark was six or seven hundred miles TO the N. E.,
coming down before the wind. The Gazette lin
nautical phrase) had better reef down its stove-pipe
and get into the lubber's hole.
The MEAsLEs-This disease has rapidly spread
among all classes in this city during the past fort
night, and has Of necessity appeared in the other
Islands ere this. 1t is estimated that there are at
least one thousand cases in the city and vicinity.
Thanks TO the increased intelligence among the
people and the untiring exertions of the Board of
1ledItn iS dSeutSj HUI u eluRle ucdiu tuis
cause has so far occurred among the natives-an
encouraging fact, when we remember the destruc-
ton the disease wrought among them in 1S4s. The
main point is to keep them from bathing in cold
water when the disease is on, and this they now
appear to thoroughly understand. But though
not dangerous in itself, it is an extremely vex-
atious complaint, and the sick require constant
watching and attention. The disease is generally
from, a;obt II tan .dovS IN Jurot;on altar See fret
appearance.
S"THE CLIMATE CuRE."-Thisi is the title Of a six
teen page monthly paper recently issued at 81 Park
Row, New York, the motto of which, on the title
page, is in these words: every human being can
find a climate adapted to his constitution. 1t is the
business of this journal to teach them how and
trhere to find it," The paper is full of puffs of GER
tain parts Of Florida as being wonderfully healthy;
and the last page is entirely occupied by an adyer-
tisement describing the beauties and advantages of
= The Sanford Grant, Orange County, Florida.
But the paper contains much valuable information
on subjects connected with health and disease is
neatly printed and ably edited. Some old residents
of these islands could give the editor a few new and
astonishing facts about " climate cure 1.-THE expe-
rience, for instance. of consumptives in the district
of Kona, Hawaii.
GERMANY IN THE PAcnIC-Under the above head
ing we find the following in a late issue of the N. Y.
Herald:
1.-The treaty made by Germany with the Samoan
Government is one TO which no authority what
ever in the United States can take exception if its
substance is correctly reported. and the pretence
that our national interest or dignity is touched by
Germany's perfectly legitimate transaction appears
to be one OF those i%mpudent endeavors to guarantee
the schemes of sharpers and adventures by the use
of the name of a great nation Of which we have
seen in our national history more than q fair share.
AS the smaller confidence sharpers go between indi-
yiduals in the world, and impose upon one man of
substance by q successful pretence that they are
fully ecommended by another man of substance
whom the first knows, so Jeremy Diddlers, on an
ampler scale, sometimes 60 between governments;
and a transaction of that nature is the basis of the
whole notion that the American people were seized
with territorial hunger for South Sea Islands. All
that we want in the South Seas we can get with
Germany close alongside of US or o dozen Ger
msnies.''
THE FRIEND.-The number for August OF this,
- the oldest journal in the Pacific" contains the,
usual variety of good reading. No. 81 of Mr.. f.
w. Damon's {" Rambles in the Old World Z" con-
cludes his very interesting account of a visit to
Scandinavia, he having returned to his post as
Secretary of the Hawaiian Legation at Berlin. We
copy the following paragraph:
Ihave lately through the kind courtesy of my
esteemed friend, DIR. Rodenburg, editor of the
"Rundschan,' been permitted to see the proof
sheets of an article entitled The Hawaiian
Islands," which will appear in that valuable
magazine on the LIST of July. 1t is from the
journal of DR.. Ernest BOehr, who was attached to
the German Imperial Corvette Arcona during
her visit to Honolulu in 1875. 1t is an article
written in a most kindly and highly interesting
tone. The writer recalls wildly the memories Of
his visit there and alludes in the most glowing
terms TO the cordial hospitality which. be expert
enced in Honolulu. He says that in his journey
round the world he no where found a more refined
and educated society than in our capital. He revels
in the beauty of the little Island city and finds
there in combination with a charming natural
Paradise, Il well organized political Utopia all
of which is very pleasant for me to hear in this
far land, cherisbing as l do very lovingly and fond-
ly, my Island birth-right. DR.. Boehr refers es.
pecially to the kindness of our genial and musi-
cal townsman, DR.. Hoffman,. and to the generous
hospitality of our German Consul, Mr.. Glade and
charming lady.
ROMANCE OF A SISGER.-Tfuth is stranger than
fiction, and reality often more romantic than
romance. Christine Nilsson is to-day one of the most
popular and gifted of our songstresses not many
years ago she was a little girl running about with
bare feet and ragged clothes on the estate, in a re-
mote part of Sweden, of Baron Leheusen. Her
fathee was a " topare" Of the Baron-a peasant,
that liz, of a class but little removed from serfdom,
which lives, each man in his cottage, on a small
plot Of ground, in consideration Of which territorial
possession every topare performs for his immortal
lord a certain amount of work once a week. On
free days these men can make by their labor about
then the Swedes are a very economical race and live
on the produce Of their own little patch. The
Baroness Leheusen was passsionately fond Of music,
and thus it CHANGED one day that in passing topare
Nelson's cottage she heard his daughter singing one
Of those popular songs which have been handed