The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-10-15

hear the vain shadows glide.
DR.. Magin supplies good example of the
bull in the following: ''The feet OF the Rabbi
slipped from under him, and the rolled down
a great height. When he recovered he found
that his companion had fallen also, and stood
by his side" Disraeli, in his 'Curiosities Of
Literature" states that "When Clarendon was
employed in writing his history, he was in
constant study of Livy and Taoitus:" and in
Audubon's American Onithology' occurs
the curious statement that "the earth was
rent asunder in several place, one or two is
lands sunk forever, and the inhabitants, fed in
dismay toward the eastern shores"
To come to more modern times, we find a
Coroner's jury in the north of England recent
~ delivering themselves thus: "That the
deceased was run over and killed by train
on the Great Northern Railway, but how his
death was OcCasioned there is not sufficient
evidence to show" Quite recently the town
clerk of Durham drew attention at council
meeting to q standing order which he regard
ed as Chinese puzzle, and which ran as fol-
lows: when two or more persons rise 10
speak at the same time, the Chairman shall
call upon the first person who rise in his
place" This reminds one of the alderman
who informed a council "that the first meet
ing OF the committee was held, but no one at
tended" Lieut-Gen. Burroughs, writing tC
a contemporary in February last, on q ques-
ton arising out of the investigations of the
Crofter's Commission in Orkney, made the
statement that flames Leonard, the father Of
nine children, is an able-bodied man in the
prime Of life, and so is his wife"
There are many Scotticisms which might
not inappropiately be classed as linguistic in
congruities the use of double Mega
tives, common among certain section Of the
Scottish peasantry, and such phrases as 81
feel a sweet smell, 81 find no pain" and
"a four-square table" In this category o.
plumbers we may also appropriately include
this curious epitaph, which may be seen il
Montrose church-yard:
Here Ives the bodeys of George Young anG
Isbel Guthrie, and all their posterity for fifty
yeres backwards"
And the following, which is inscribed on ;
tombstone in Arbroath Church-yard:
"Heir lyes Alex Peter, present town treasur.
or of Arbroath, who died the 10th, January
1890"
1t is said that French miser perpetratet
the most practical Of all bulls by making
himself his own heir. The Totaire recently
in the account Of an attack upon a gentleman
stated that he received stab (Which cut the
carotid artery of the left hand" NJ. de Cas-.
sagnac predicted not long ago that France
would throw herself into the arms ola lberat.
ing sword" and the Figaro described tn,
monument Of Quinet as IAN equestrian statu,
in sitting posture"
1t is not proposed TO narrate here how Sil
Boyle Roche accomplished the feat of writing
a letter with sword in one hand and a pis.
tol in the other; how on one occasion he hearC
nothing but silence; how he refused to Civ,
his autograph in a note which he signed; Of
to allude to the many facetious doings or say.
ings of that great bull kings; but few OK.
amples of linguistic incongruities may bt
picked from the utterances of Hibernian ora
tors of the present day, for Irishmen are noted
for their liability to perpetuate amusing blum.
ders.
Speaking in the House of Lords in 1852 OF
the Arrears Of Rent Qreland) Bill, an Irish
Peer said: my Lords, you will drive the
Irish landlords of the face of the earth, and
they will have TO beg their bread from door tc
door" What follows, uttered by one of tbs
members for Wicklow in the Lower House, is
not less ludicrous. "As long as Ireland he
exclaimed, sis silent in her wrongs, England
is above all her cries" An Irish member in
formed Mr.. Speaker that "while three-uuar-
tiers OF the outrages Mr.. Forster had reported
were totally unfounded, the other half was
grossly exaggerated; and Mr.. Moore, NJ. P.