The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-09-17
Foreign Notes.

How to make tea is a secret which few house
Keepers know. Prof. Blot, the lecturer and publ
caterer, says: " In making tea the great mistake
4 in allowing it to boil. The teapot should b.
well heated with boiling hot water irst-then pu
II the tea and pour just water enough in to we
fhe leaves Let it stand one minute, three minutes
OF at most, five minutes Tea is astringent
and the astringency destroys the flavor if allowed
20 stand more than Eve minutes. Green tea should
never be used. it operates on the nerves more
Powerfully than black tea 1t should never be
taken breakfast, because of its asringent quail
ties In damp climates. or where fever and ague
prevail, take q cup of strong tea after lunch and
after dinnerD
The following facts regarding the amount of
huor consumed in the United States will astonish
wen Good TempIars- The commissioners ap-
pointed to revise the revenue system of the coun-
- in their report estimate that from AZ 900 900 10
q 100000 gallons of distilled spirits are consumed
y the country annually. In addition to this they
tmate that Is6, 900 900 Of fermented liquors, are
cpusumed, and 10000 900 of imported liquors, all
cpsting as retaiIed at least s5OOeOOOOO The
revenue derived by the Government from the
liquor business is 81, ,727, ZIG.
We have often wondered that packets, but more
specially steamers, do not take carrierpigeons to
ska- The average flight of the carrier-pigeon is
hid to be about 80 miles an hour. But the bird
could hardly maintain this speed for more than 500
niles because, while its powers of digesting food
are rapid, its loss of strength when deprived of
fpd is equally so, and unless its supply of food
zould be replenished on the way, it would break
1ewn- The experiment is worth the trying, and as
ae expense of maintaining pigeons on passenger
seamers would be inconsiderable, it should GER
~inly be made. Beyond all question in case of
EASTER within soundings the coast, pigeons
Npnld convey intelligence in the quickest way to
- nearest land, and enable expeditions to be fit
out immediately tor the relief of the sufferers.
De OF any use they must be taken from the port
o. place where they have been nedged as they
I'll then be sure to return to their cotes
Dr. Milo, a celebrated surgeon Of Kief. Russia.
has discovered a method by which the human bodv
nay be literally Illuminated, as our minds are
M<en 6guratively said to be. The Illuminating
pr1cess is effected by Of electricity and the
-kn and flesh are made to seem almost Transparent
We learn from Good Health that few weeks since
80 distinguished inventor in question lectured at
p petersburg on the astonishing discovery be
rss made In demonstration of the feasibility of
- process, be placed bullet in his mouth, and
caused the electric light to shine full upon his
7cf WhereupOn the bullet, became distinctly visi-
- through his cheek The especial utility of his
r>every he considers 70 be that foreign bodies
- llets lodged in the flesh, can thus have their
-efeabouts infallibly ascertained, without the
az and martyrdom of perpetual insertion of
r1bes
AWit styles kerosene lamps parlor magazines"
Neount Of the frequency and the fatal facility
1elr explosions; and were not the subject too
sr1oH for wit, we might be disposed to laugh at
le nptness of the comparison. Hardly day
azsf3 without its record Of kerosene slau1htersD
t1ese accidents are expressly called. The loss
, ite and property is fearfully great, so that
hHtfs paper has said kerosene explosions
their victims to the grave daily, and destroy
h.Rns of property annually" Is it not almost
+ettible that the sole cause of this frighuul
hter and destruction is the use Of inferior oil
hathority just quoted tells Us "s lamp filed
J. Nfeally good kerosene may be broken, and yet
hnes will not communicate to the oil that is
There is but one proper remedy for these
Pene eatastrophes, and that is in the passage of
"a every State making it 4 criminal offence to