The Hawaiian gazette., 1868-05-06
Miscellaneous Items.

The emigration TO California is immense
/ The Pacific Mail Steamer. for the LIST of April,
was Obliged to refuse over 300 passengers.
Gen. Ord, who is TO take the place Of Gen.
Mcdowell, in eommsnd Of the Pacific divi-
| sion Of the army, sailed for California on the
/ Ist inst.
IRE burning of the Oxford Music Hall is
/ attributed 10 smoulderiDg cigar having been
dropped By some needless smoker upon the
/ stutfing Of the cushions on the balcony seats.
Serious riots were anticipated At Nassau in
consequence Of the action Of tie Legislature
| IN relation 10 the Church Disendowment
I Bill, which was passed by I'VE majority. The
/ Executive Council vetoed the measure, where
| upon the Assembly became Indignant, and
requested the Governor TO dissolve the Leg
/ islature and order 4 new election, which was
refused. The Liberals have prepared an ad-
dress TO the Home Secretary, requesting CO.
/ ercion TO force the legislature
To WHITES LAcE-Lace mar be restored
20 its original Whiteness by fRt ironing it
slightly, then folding it and sowing it into a
clean linen bag, which is placed for twenty
| four hours in pure olive oil Afterwards the
I bag is boiled iu solution Of sosp and water
| for fifteen minutes. then well ri1sed in luke
warm water, and finally dipped into water
containing s slight proportion of starch.
| The lace is then taken from the bag and
stretched on pins 10 dry.
A New DOCTRINE OF REsPoNsBILITY.-An
amusing story Is told Of the first essay at
diplOmatiZing among the Yankees by our
new Minister Al Washington. Before quit
ting London he met an American gentleman
whom he did not recognize as a member of
the ultra Republican party, and to whom he
praised 9ir. johnson highly for his admins
tratiye vigur and skill Finding no RESPONSE,
-. Ill
all must admit that he does wonders for an
entirely self-made man. 1T may be So"
was the rejOiuder; but if be be self-made,
will say that it relieves God Almighty Of a
grave responsibility. Manchester Guardian
DISCOVERIES RELATING TO OzoSE.-Dr
Andrews, of Belfast has made 4 series Of
very interesting experiments, SAYS the Scisnti-
fc RsUisc. TO prove that the body which acts
ss ozone in the atmosphere really is ozone
aud that there is no other substance in the
air We breathe that has similar Characteristic
properties Still later Dr. Emerson REYNOLDS,
of Dublin, has found that ozone has most
curious actiOu upon the latent Photographic
image; that is, upon the image before it is
developed In submitting the latent image
20 the action OF ozone, no image could be
Afterwards developed on the plate, upon
which 4 second image could, in fact, be
obtained when it was replaced in the camera
This goes far 10 prove that the change Ope-
rated BY the suns nays upon q Photographic
film is not mechanical in the first instance,
As many have supposed, but of a strictly
chemical nature.
PosT-DATED CHEQUEs.-Why should a
post dated cheque be illegals And ii il
should be, is it, The latter Of these ques-
tions, writes the La1e Tines, was noticed by
Us when it last arose, without being settled,
in the case of Whistler vs. Foster II came
again before the Court Of Queens Bench
last week. and that court held. that eheque
which purpOrted to be payable TO order on
demand, was not invalid because pOst-dated.
1t appeared in the course of the case-Eman-
uel V ROberts-that there Is a custom among
bankers in the city Of LONDON not 10 pay any
cheques drawn by their customers and known
10 the bankers 10 be pOst-dated- The action
having been brought against the bankers for
falling to honor eheque of this kind, they
were held exempt from liability, the custom
being part of the contract with customer.
Had no such system existed, the pIaintitf
would have recovered damages, the Court re-
marking that the bankers would not be jus
tilted in refusing to pay the eheque upon the
ground Of any defect in the stamp-fhe
case Of such document being. IN all prOba-
hiIitv caslEs Claisslss in the recent Stamp Act.
The grounds upon which the POst-dating
Of checks should be prohibited are o5yious-
If checks could be pOst-dated they would be-
q
the revenue would be thereby defrauded. II
Is difficult, however, to see why bankers
should object to the practice, except upon
the ground that II might deprive them Of
some Of their bill business But the question
Is now settled subject 70 the custom Of Lon
don bankers. A check may be pOst-dAted,
aud il i for the Legislature to supply the
defect IN the Stamp Act
STSGUIAR PHENONENOS-DRTTSGU Up OF
7 4 Of fta
CoIGwater Michigan Gdzsfts gives some par
ticriIars connected with the recent disappear
ance Of the water from Ottawa Lake.
For some DAYS past Ottawa Lake, in Mon
roe county, has presented a very exciting
scene. The occasion vas this Those living
near the lake observed for some days previous
that the ice on the lake was falling. Soon
they discovered that the hsh were erOEding
to the holes in the ice where they watered
their cattle They increased in numbers
both large and small. the former having their
mouths wide open, and so exhausted that the
people caught them with their hands As
many teams daily visited the lake, hauling
stones from its shores, for building purposes,
the news soon spread TO distance all around.
The work Of 4uarTying and hauling stones
was soon abandoned, and in 4 short time
scores Of teams aud hundreds Of men might
be seen on and around the lake The men
With handspikes. croEbars and axes, we're
bEsily engaged in cutting and raising huge
pieces Of ice, and then STOPPING down and
lifting the fish, some OF which we're dead,
some alive, and some frozen fast IN the ice
for the water having departed from the AXE
BY some Eubterrzne0uS passage. the vast
sheet Of ice lay 0a the bottom For three
DAYS immense Quantities Of iSh we're carried
away, principally pickeTsl and bass, while
vast Quantities Of white fish were left 10 rot
on the ice and in the m1d-fOr mud and ice
are all that l. left Of Ottawa Lake Samer-
Gus pieces Of the ice are left standing on edge,
ike 20 many grave stones. The AXE, rather
lie bed, OF graveyard presents q novel scene
Some say tie water viii sOou return By the
same source dE which II departed, bringing
fresh supply Of fish with it-fOT Lake Erie il
supposed to be its headquarters II will be
vel if il does, otherwise sickness nay be
feared in the vicinity OF the burying ground
Of Ottawa Lake In the Meantime the far
mers Il the vicinity viii greatly feel the loss
Of the departed waters About seven psarz
ago, l an tod, this lake departed IN the
same way, and old men say II departs and
returns periodically.