The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-09-05

company No. 5 are LET to the tune
OF about the rent Of the Snnex Of
the Acropolis sni the printing.
Socrates is S greatly oveTsSti-
mated mSn. He writes fairly well,
but Is an o-sto- he gives Us VIC
lent pSin.
In the frs; place, he is an eS-
t-emaly plSin man. he is pop
eyed, ssoop-shoulisred snd bald
headed, with - mouth Ike : stab
in the dark" How il ever occurred
70 him 70 lecture we do no: under
stand. he might well be utilized
70 frighten incorporate men back
into The psth Of 7ectitude, but he
eSnno: pronounce 5 pSnegyric-at
leSst he does not pronounce it SIS
we have been accustomed 20 hear
ing It pronounced.
On his arrival in town yeSter-
dzy Socrates became the guest Of
the CorinthiAn Squirt Company
No. 5, 2nd Is ssid 70 have visited
the public school snd our brewery
during the afternoon. He was
asked 10 address me primary
classes regarding school work,
which he did in rather clumsy
manner. He then took tea with
our esteemed felloH-toWnsmSn. Mr..
AlcibliadeS, who lives back OF the
PSrthenisn. snd whose snnounce-
ment regarding his great closing
ont sale Of falI snd winter cloth
ing, hsts, caps, togas, sandals snd
general footwear msy be found
elsewhere IN this issue.
The great man wss dumb as an
oyster ST all these places, barring
the public school. pleading fatigue,
though it is intimsted that ne was
ont lSte the night before.
The lecture was s rehssh Of what
Socrates has before written, and
the funny parts Of it made the
zudience sob the seats loose, sud
the low SD PUNK Of the scslding
tear punctuated the jokes of this
knoek-kueed old jew-despritter
from Observation-Disclosures.
Il Is said thzt Socrates delivered
course Of lectures on Athenisn
SIT in one Of the provinces before
he came here, and that he offered
prize consisting Of 8 set OF dishes
and the game Of fiddle de-winks,
TO any one who would be neither
sbsent nor t&rdy during the entire
course. After some little discus
sion the prize was awarded 70 the
janitoc ofthe hall
The gestures Of this great man
came yesterday about an hour or so
after he got here himself, and they
were about shat much behind
during the entire lecture. In our
opinion the press has made
Socrates and given him q tenn
Dorsry n0toriety which in two
years will be too dead to skin. His
gestures Iast night were beneath
criticism, and were doubtless in
tended for some other lecture
His voice Is 3 little bit thinner
than his lecture, and his lower
register does not seem to take the
chill OF the hall There sat his
listeners last night with wet feet,
having wept c0piously into their
oyershoes at MS jokes in the early
part Of the evening, and nothing
that ne said seemed TO cheer them
until st the close he struck 2 little
chunk Of psthos and quit.
Possibly we expected too much
Of Socrates, IS his record, Of course,
vas not mzde IS lecturer, and he
therefore cannot expect TO rank
along with some Of our local elocu-
tionists, but we had heard 80 much
about this Grecisn upstsrt that We
think, after sll, ne voice the senti-
ment Of our best people when Ne
say that Socrates Is 2 greatly over
estimated and vulgar man whose |
fame will fade e'er the robins nest |
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