The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-06-26

WHILE the present season at these islands has go
far been noteworthy for frequent refreshing
showers, gratifying the grazier and the planter
and keeping the country green, accounts from the
continent indicate that the summer will be a re-
markably dry one in all parts Of the United States,
and everybody there is predicting a drouth. The
winter has been u memorable one for lowness of
temperature, the formation Of ice in the lakes and
rivers having been something beyond the expert
ence of the oldest inhabitant. Here, too, the
weather since October last, has been altogether
abnormal our usual climate appears to be " lost,
strayed or s%tolen,' and our Oldest resident de-
declares he recoIlects nothing like it before. The
rainfall in Honolulu during the eight months and
three weeks last past has amounted to 46.09 in
ehes in the aggregate, according to n guage kept
on Nuuanu Avenue, below the second BRIDGE
The following table. which has been obligingly
furnished us by the observer, will show how the
rainfall has been distributed through that period.
October, 5 50 inehe. March, 50 inches
S Ssss%Ss:' ) y % q iP 5ess:' A As5it Is s Ia 6efs:'
January, IS inches June. TO ~ Isl inches
Total 4oos inches.
The fall Of SO generous and uniform a supply
Of moisture has proved a lucky circumstance for
the government, for had there been an opposite
condition Of affairs. the necessity for a new reser.
yoir for the supply Of the city would have be-
come q troublesome cause of complaint, which 1t
ia not at present. However, it will be unwise to
boast too soon, for we know not what the coming
heats of July and August may bring forth.
In connection with the thought of the prospect
i've :. heated term we are reminded of the sub
ie,t of summer resorts. Where shall the worn
and wearled business man of the metropolis go
for n few weeks change of scene and relaxation Of
bodv and mind? For in any climate, and more
sspeciaIly in a tropical one, an occasional change
Of this sort has a wonderfully recuperatiye effect
ON the system, and amounts to almost a new lease
of life. a constant, unSarying, treadmIll-like
o,rI;cation TO q round of duties, however COM
meudable and pecuuiarily profitable it may be,
will have the tendency to age most people rather
fas. The blood becomes sluggish and inert, and
IN. mind. as q matter of course following suite,
gets into chronic grooves of ccntractedness and
finally into selfshness and an incapacity for the
higher aims Of life. Now a little travel, a differ
ent air and scene and companionship, and some
communiug with Nature IN her own temple, may
change or forefend all this. And therefore we
hold it TO be e duty-unless one belongs to the
''can't get away cub for every man with his
family, Qf Providence has blessed him with one)
to at least once I year break away from the town
and go somewhere into the country, or BY the
seashore. Says gentle Cowper-
God made the country ard man made the town
NaAi ~Oudrr then. thAI health and virtue. gins
Tsai f ss . .5Pss mi @14 = s ~ .s1 The bitter dssGSst
AHd least be thrsaHead 10 The nslis and grovesT
But where shel we gO7 There is Waikiki,