The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-08-14

How TO rEEar FArNriNG PEoctx-rhere ara
some CbSeryationS IN the LCsgct. recently. which
might Be- stpdied With advantage by police con
stables, Rets-rinS 70 \ case which lately &c
Cured in New York. in which death speedily
followed the extraction Of teeth amer an inefeci-
ual endeavor 10 administer nitrous oxide gas. the
LGgcst maintains that hsi the patient, who had
tainted from terror. been laid ia, on the door,
instead Of being kept in an upright position, she
would probably have recovered in few minutes
and It then points cut the danger Of treating
syncops BY the erect posture, ins'aneiug the case
Of a poor woman who lately ilinted on an English
vace-eourse, and having been placed by police
man in 3 sitting posture, was Only saved from
death BY the accident Of doctor happening to
pass by az the moment and laying her down until
she recovered. The public Is often moved TO q
slight display Of indignation when some one who
has committed the osease Of being taken i'll in
I the stree; is Pot to death in police cell; but
when II is remembered that many Of our police
eo0Stab,sS we're. perhaps, agricultural laboTers
few weeks before they are called upon to do duty
in the streets, ard are as ignorant Of the proper
method Of dealing with cases OF syncope Is they
are Of Hebrew, the wonder is that any iuseusibls
/ person who falls into their hands ever survives
/ police treatment. Even the more intelligent
/ members Of the force, who are not in the habit
Of jumping At the conclusion that every insensibs
T person smells Of sPlrlts and must be drunk,
aDi therefore use their best eSerti0ns 10 restore
consciousness in no yiudictivs spirit almost inya-
riaby prop their patient up ssanst pillar letter
box. or 4 doorstep, having dragged him or Der,
As the case may be. TO that support with the as
sistsnee Of the bystaniees.-PlE Ma, GG-a,s
These was period in the history Of this con
tinent when elephants and mammoths were uu-
msrcus. Which OF the two lived first, or wheth-
ss they lived At the same time, cannot be deter
uj1ei But that the mammoth far exceeded in
stature the elephant IS abuudantly proved BY
their skeletons. They appear to have had 3
range from regions Of the Ohio river, and plains
Of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers quite across
the great mountain ranges 10 the borders Of the
Plcifc, bounded n0rlhsrly 10 lttuie about H.
Octave Paw. the adventurous Freedman.
with four companions, started May p, from
Sln Francisco. on his voyage in search Of an
open Polar Sea The voyage Is to be made on
4 fraiI raft. which can be readily transported
over the iee-foes and launched again in the
Polar Ssa-if there is any Polar Sea. and if
Octave Payy can f1d it. He has as one OF his
companions Capt. Hicks. the man who crossed
the AtIantic in the little Nonpareil, to the
establishment Of everybody.
HESEY MEIaGs. whose name has become so
widely known as a railway contractor in Peru,
is not only engaged at the present time in bull
ding a dozen or more different railroads in that
country. bot Is also experimenting the eoustruc-
ton Of 900 houses in Lima. He proposes to
run { railroad around the city as 4 private en-
tsrprt<e-
Iy & recent lecture by the celebrated DIT. |
Scbwabe. of Berlin. he states that, out of LOCO
school children that bad been questioned on tie /.
subject in that city. 80 never had seen raiu- /
bow, IS3 potato field. SOP butterfly. 4OS a /
corn-6eId 547 flock OF sleep, 364 forest, 264 /
an oak, and 263 had never seen blowing.
To LIGHT the streets of london, $4,000 gas
lights are employed. which consume every
tweuty-four hours - 10000 cubic feet Of gas
and if the streets Of the metropolis we're put
together. they would extend distance of about
4 OO0 miles
TR,vzIEzs in Palestine are obliged to have
an escort Of Arabs in going from one point to
another. or the money they would thus pay
for protection viii be eztorted from them
BY foul means
THzzz are about one thousand clerks, besides
tventy-four directors, III the establishment of
the Bank of England
THE people OF Norway are now preparing for
great national festival to celebrate the one thou
sandth anniversary Of NoSways nationality.
TIE marriage ceremony in Japan consists Of
the man and woman drinking vine from the
sane cup
CoEPuzL punishment has been abolished in
the German prisons.
DuErSG the eruption Of Vssuvius the wealthy
Of Naples passed the nights in their carriages.
BAVARIA, according to the recent census, has
! population Of 4S5002S.
GEN TRocHr has renowned Romanism and
become member Of the Anglican Church
FoCE.HozsE coaches are to Be revived in
London.
Nova Soma has struck oil at the depth Of
IS feet
PErssu proper has 24645.S56 Inhabitants.