Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-05-19
IOctI ITEMS

A contemporary calls timely attention to
the faint numbering Of many Of the local eN.
press wagons.
The yacht Emma upset in the harbor on the |
18th. No one was was injured and the boa,
was rghted.
The running stallion Garfield, the property |
OF Mr.. Clarence Maciarlane and Mt. William
Conwell, arrived on the Suer in fine condi- |
ton.
II Nuuanu, above Beretania street, can br
"called our Van Ness Avenue Nuuanu, he
low Beretania street, can still more apptopr
aiely he called our All Sin Avenue.
This evening, at the residence OF W. X.
Castle, there will I've an annual meeting and
election Of officers Of the Mission Children's
Society. A full attendance is desired.
I, has been suggested that visitors to the
Y. N. c. A., particularly strangers, and espe
cially on debate nights, should sign the register,
50 they may be known to the audience.
The magazines for May have been received:
The Century, Harpers. Atlantic, St. Nicho.
las. Wide Awake and Overland; also the
Sugar Cane and Chambers Journal for April.
II the Supreme Cour, is in want Of s,eno.
grapher as intima,ed by contemporary daily,
there is gentleman residing on Hawaii whose
services as stenographer could probably be
obtained.
The habit which prevails among some Of the
laborers along the wharves, of asking extra
wages when they find a vessel in tight place,
can no, too severely be deprecated Men
who strike for business blood money are likely
10 be remembered by those who employ them
Mr.. Williams, the photographer, took
irstt .Nt sk..N bull In N.assl
and then going TO his place OF business,
selected full assortment OF island s;ereosco-
pic views and sen, them up with true pro 65no
fAthC0 spirit, for the use OF visitors TO the
rooms.
A citizen whose views on municipal good
government have the Endorsement OF expert
ence and the merit OF ,erse expression desires
public expression Of the opinion that it will be
wise policy TO employ prisoners in cleaning the
streets rather than hire their services TO any
private persons.
Dr. Wilmington August.Meyer, the much
aliased and selftitled English-Austrian physi.
clan with whose presence these islands have
recently been favored, sailed last Monday for
Australia by the New York, carrying with him
his own aloha, folded carefully in two recent
copies Of the Saturday Press.
This Office has received from Mr. f. P.
Bond, Secretary of the Hawaiian Club,
Boston, "Report OF the Hawaiian Treaty"
signed by Messrs. Edward Kemble and G. r.
Denny, and presented to the National Board
Of Trade, al its annual meeting-which was
held at Washington last January.
Before Mrs. Ann Leak Thompson was mar
ried, she used to travel in the United States as
Miss Ann Z. Leak, exhibiting the wonderful
skill with which she made her feet do part Of
the work designed for hands. This armless
woman is one of the curiosities Of the century.
She is now on exhibition in tent on Hotel
street, near the Y. NJ. {. A. building.
Mr.. A. S. Hartwell goes to San Francisco
by the Suez. His family accompanies him and
the good wishes Of an extensive professional
and social acquaintance will follow him and
them wherever they may so. Fruit Vale, Cal
ifomia, will be their FIRST point OF further de-
parture.
Good bye to you Ned Macfarlane. A bon.
ME voyage to you, and a hearty welcome from
your numberless friends. May the 'Friscan
iogs deal with you gently, may the dust OF the
'Frscan streets keep always half block be-
hind you, may the 'Friscan girls be good to
you, Edward. And ere year rolls round again
may you come back to US. May Neptune be
with you, may Venus look down on you and
may Captain Dodd keep you from being sea
sick.
Happy deni1ens OF the upper Nuuanu road
The shower il showeIeth every eve. Thereby
Is the dust discounted and the heart Of the
housewife made glad, Unhappy house holder
Of the lower town Where the sprinkler
sprinkle,h no, is dust and dust and dust. But
il costs the Nuuanu folk more for rubber gar
ments and umbrellas.
All Honolulu says aloha to Captain Dodd o
the Suef He is bound for San Francisco Ell
route to London. The journey between those
two cities will make portion Of his wedding
trip. lie maIries a San Francisco lady and
~ill take her to his English home and friends
II there is one patron OF the Sesz who doe
not Join in the hope that Captain Dodd vii
return TO this route, in command OF either III,
MaripoSa OF the Alameda Of the Oceanic line
that unappreciatiye passenger Is hiding in 81
lence his diminished head.
Mr.. Samuel NJ. Damon has become the for
tunaie owner Of a copy Of the original "Ma
donna Of the Chair Artists have permission
to copy the original every ten years only. A
q consequence. copies arc commonly painted a
second hand. The copy owned by MI. Damo'
vax painted BY Professor Ceccini, es,ecme'
the best copyisi in Florence. II was secure,
by MeSsrs Hoffnung & Co, London, through
Mrs. lanes Jackson Jayies, second wife o
the author Of the standard Hawaiian history
al one time editor Of the Polynesian OF Homo
lulu, and at present art correspondent OF tn
New York Times. Mrs. JaNies is herself Al
Art critic Of experience, and selected Nj. Da
mons picture in the absence Of her husband
Universally conceded TO be one Of Raphael
lost successful pictures, there is something y
the Character As well as the artistic treaimen
Of the "Madonna in the Chair which make
II unique in art. Mr.. Damon and Mr. Damon
Honoiulan friends are to be congratulated. Dc
sides the copy ahss Raphael, virgin an
child, after Murillo. and number OF hne pro-
engrayings, arrived for Mr.. Dan'sn BY III
Abergeldie.
A great many ladies and gentlemen yiaie
the salesrooms Of G.. W. Mcfarland Co
last Thursday. TO see and examine the lars
invoice 81 majolca, Royal Danish Poreelaii
llservaIe. bronIes, cut, blown and eolore
giass~ are--an extensive line oi ornaments
goods, highly attractive in themselves an
mosi arrisiicslly made the mosi Of IN the
ssvupings What the advertising English
the speeial announcement circular ehaiaeie
ises a. the ''p.ece dc resistance, Il superb G.
ample Of modem CERAMIC ant II represent
a. is central idea, Prometheus in the chains
his living death. the horror d Hades upon D
features, the beak u the yuliuie deep in b
side. Il would be weaIisome and unpfoh,ab
10 se.repcai the catalogue. There Was beau
enoueh in that loaded salesroom TO bankru
I'll the rspouers in Hawaii and all the rest
Polynesia But the solid. men Of the burg, al
th<is wives and their daughters, were presen
TA<y came TO admire, they remained TO bul
and largc proportion ofthe most aiiraeti
Aticics were sold bciore the purchasers b.
- M the fort ios forty minutes. A. 4
6sn declincd to permit the finest goods 10
tsksa avsy during the sale, every one psese
~ chance TO enjoy the e.hib.,ions, Al
~po.sRh ALL remains on sale 10 justify visit
ssL.~soon-<yea Al this - day aitef the taces