The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-10-05

MIRAGE IN THE FRITZ OF FORTH. I'VE have fire.
queny had occasion to report of mirage occur
ring in the Firth of Forth, but the most extraordi-
nary instance which can be remembered occurred
on Friday afternoon. The day was very hot and
sutry, and there was regularity about the atmos-
phere which is seldom observed in this country
About midday, thin, clear and transparent kind of
vspor, through which the surrounding objects be-
gan to make their appearance in the most fantastic
and grotesque shapes imaginable settled the
The fantasmagOria were principally confined
to the mouth Of the firth; but at time they en-
braced the whole of the Fife coast far as the eye
could reach, town. village, aud hamlet being depict
ed high upon the horizon with remarkable DISTINCT
ness. Though the whole coast seemed at least half
way up the horizon, the appearances presented by
the towns were very different, of them having
the houses inverted, while others appeared in the
natural position The Bass Rock, the Isle Of May
and the rocks around Dunbar harbor, however, at
tracted most attention, both from their proximity
and from the extraordinary forms which they as
sumed. The Bass which at one time seemed to lie
upon the sea- suddenly shot up into tall spiral col
umn, apparently ten times its usual height, sur
rounded by battlements rising tier on tier, and pre-
senting most imposing spectacle As usual, how
ever, the most fantastic appearances presented
underwent an almost innumberabe series of phan-
tasmagoric transformations. AT one time it was APP
parently as round circle, at another seemingly
drawn out tor miles against the horizon; now fat
upon the water, then rising to ten times its usual
height; occasionally portions appeared 10 break off
and sail away, then to return aud unite-al within
the space of few minutes. Vessels in the ofing
appeared double-one the water and another in
verted in the air; and in instance three figures
of one vessel were distinctly visibe-one inverted,
another on the sea, and third in its natural posi-
ton between the two The fishing boats proceed
ing to 10 the evening underwent the trans
formations when only few yards off the shore, the
double appearance being Distinctly visible within
certain DISTANCE. The rocks at the harbor also
seemed TO play fantastic tricks, opening aud shut
ting rising and falling, with apparent regularity.
These extraordinary illusions lasted from mid day
till nghial, and excited great interest among the
inhabitants of Dunbar, numbers of whom collected
in the Castle Park and at the harbor for the purpose
OF witnessing the phenomena Edinburgh Scotsman
BARON GERoLT, the Prussian Minister in Wash.
ingon, has received dispatch from Berlin stating
that for the third time flag of truce has been fired
upon by the French 1t says: Capt. ROehow, sent
by Gen. Alvens Leben to Tou with flag OF truce
complaining another flag of truce has been killed
You will lodge protest with the United States
against these repeated violations of international
law and declare that shall hencefurth be an impos
siby of sending flags of truce to a nation, whose
soldiers lost in Africa, China and Mexico, all reco
lectons of the usages # civilized warfare"
The bones of 500 Cinnamon have just been sent
home from San Francisco The Crispins hope that
the freighing trade in coolie bones will continue
brisk.
PROPOSED wedding between Maine damsel Of
ffty-two and youth OF seventeen was objected to
by the boys mother, who declared "he was no
match for that old woman
FIVE HUNDRED Chinese Iaborers are on their way
from California TO Virginia, having been hired by
the Ohio and Chesapeak Railroad Company at SIS q
month.
AN English vocalist recently recovered 5000
from railroad company for damage to her voice by
collision.
THE Library OF the British Museum now con-
tains 900 volumes and is doubling itself every
fifteen years.
A SERVANT girl in Toledo frustrated burglars
plans by throwing him out of a garnet window to
the sidewalk He never recovered from the shook.
JAcoB CHIcEENDASsE is the name of man who
keeps stall in one of the indianapolis markets.
Peter Hogwaliz is the name of one OF his eompeti-
tors.
WY are the clouds like coaehmens Becausethey
bold the rains.
You are queer chicken, the hen said when
she Matched out duck.
-TaE Moravians have been 10 Greenland one ham
dred and thirty six years.
He who avoids small sins does not fall into large
ones