Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-01-10

the tompusct at Naples, and which
represents him at tho piano. Is also
adorned with four hcfninrs IN ciiiy uf
his hvoritc operas At the several cor
ncfS ~ tho pedestal Norma Amnn uf
"Sonnamhuh, Elvia OF "Puriani
and Gmllctn nf Romeo and luhct'
being the characters selected The
ANNA Of Mile Nevada, having met
with complete favor IN Italy, she has
been chosen as one uf the -four and
her lincamrnts have been pcrpctuatcd
in marble as vel as possible vthou, =
sitting from the artist herself Good
photographs, however have made the
likeness. SD it is said very satisfactory
MI Rec,her bs was to hc expected
from his more extensive experience. dii
icp totally from MI IalmaEcs able
views about the ancient horse, The
oracle of the Brooklyn tabernacle. an
noun,cd IN late sermon that tho horse
OF to dly was not 10 be compared TO
this ancient progcnitor and that I've
have not nov even in our best stables,
one on which ON ancient prince would
be seen riding The startling asSur.
ance, Mr. Becoher pronounccS to he
sheer nonsense, alleging that the ancient
horse, was - lat podgy, big bonod,
slow brute, in no way to be compared
with his modern descendant = and fur.
thcr that "any one with common sense
'--arciro. fool" would know that "he
was an inferior brute This is rough
on Rev Mr Talmagc Blu, that gen
tleman may console himself by reflect
ing that Mr. Becehcr has said irrevcr-
ent things about Mr.. Blaine, and
would probably. il occasion served,
speak distcspeotfully OF the equator
The brave Colonel Stewart, recently
killed on the Nile, belonged to a good
old Ulster family, akin to the house of
Londonderry, and received his com
mission as cornct in 1865. He had
not been with his regiment, the nth
Hussars, since 1870, when, then n
captain, he was seconded to take up
duty as Vice Consul in Ana,olia under
Sir Charles Wilson. That officer never
did wiser thing than when in the
Autumn OF 1882 he recommended
Stewart, by this time lieutenant
colonel, for the duty of investigating
into the general condition of the Soudan,
and making report thcrcupon The
region was even then in a very disturbed
condition; and over and over again, in
the course OF his searching investiga-
ton, Stewart had to take his life in his
hand Every authentic detail OF in.
formation in regard to the Mdhdi--his
origin, pretensions and influences
comprised in the invaluable report
which Stewart compiled 1t earned
him Lord Duferin's warm praises, the
c. NJ. c., and the position rs Gordon's
lieutenant, in which he came by his
untimely death at the age Of thirtynine.
On the sd OF November, the Com
memoration OF the ./0w Ges NortS, the
body of PaSquale Brignoli was com
mitted to the grave, and the silent,
spectral host, in whose memory many
tear-stained garland is woven on this
anniversary. received in their choir a
divine voice and musical spirit. The
artists OF the world, especially musicians
and great actors, seem to be playing n
great ,oie on the stage of life They
seem to be lent rather than given to
humanity, and SO illusory and fitful is
their presence. that when they vanish
forever they leave behind them recol-
lections associated more closely with
the domain of fiction than with the
stern facts of reality. Singers in par
tlcular impress their hearers with the
mere tone Of their voice and the en-
phasis of their utterances in a never-,o-
be-forgotten way. The cry of despair
in which Edgardo denounces the world
of "men and women" the imploring
accents of Lionel apostrophizing his
lost Marta, and Manrico pouring out
his soul to Leonora from behind the
prison bars, are familiar, unhappily too
familiar, TO all frequen,crs Of the lyric
drama But the memory of the voice
which rings out, penetrating every
corner Of large ediiice, remains to
the listeners long after the singer to
whom 1t was given is lost forever to
sight and sound.
The extent TO which the Prince of
Wales influences social matters in Eng
land is shown by the following facts re-
corded by London contemporary
A.
popularity, and doing a play" did
not become an institution, without the
Prince OF Wales taking the stage under
his patronage. There was never a
regular winter season in London till
the Prince OF Wales discovered that
the capital had its charms when the
year was rapidly waning, and that the
country might be intolerably monoto-
nous. Cigarettes were first introduced
into England after the Crimean war
but it was not till somewhere about
1868, when the heir-apparent gave
them his approval, that they became
formidable rivals to cigars, and that
every diminu,ive dandy thought il
necessary to carry an elecuo-plate case
containing them in his pocket, What
are called lemon squashes "a beverage
which seems prominently adapted to
the parched palate OF this unheroic age
had never been slipped by British lips
till Albert Edward Prince OF Wales had
pronounced them to be very good.
smoking concerts were unheard of be-
fore the same august and beneicen,
despot OF English society suggested a
combination al the attractions OF music
and tobacco. Sunday dinner parties
were confined to what may be called
the professional classes I'LL the Prince
OF Wales sanctioned and stimulated the
rite. The Sunday parade at the Zoo