The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-10-06
U.eraI and Interesting.


lament on foreign loans will probably result in high
y important revelations, likely to prove beneficial to
many unfortunate investors It is expected that in
consequences Of these disclosures the agents rePous
bic for introducing certain Of the loans TO the British
market will be compelled to surrender very onnsd-
cradle proportion Of their clients i'll gotten gains
According to the latest report current on Change
claims have been preferred to the extent Of nearly
SS.ooo.Oo0 by number Of disappointed subscribers,
and the bulk Of the loss will fall upon one or two Of
the principal financial houses Of the City Of London
C0sr OF NATIoxAL PRIxrISs.-Among other cost
iy white elephants kept BY the Government Of the
United States is public printing office It's expend-
tures last year reported by The Superintendent OF
Printing At $l,757,76s. Among other jobs done by
this oce is that Of printing the reports Of Agricu
ture They about useful TO the farmers Of the
country as 6ullivers Travels would be and vet the
Chief Of the Bureau wanted $40 900 copies for two
year., and didn't get many Gniy because the Ap-
/ prOpriatiOns were short. Both the Agricultural
Bureau and the Government Printing Ofiee should
be Abolished.-Sae. Union.
FeAsmueb as paper has been made available for
the manufacture of almost every variety Of furniture
and articles Of dress passing strange that paper
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thought of. The undertaken is certainly not an en-
terprising party. Trunk makers have long been
credited with using all the unstable printed books
bat At the rate of production every
elsr supplied with a van-loAd of these troublesome
eaPediHenta to travelling such stock would remain
that ali the bOOk-sheves in the world would
tAin 1.-THE Of them. To further reduce the stock.
manufacturer out West proposes to supply every
jOurnyer to that bourne whence traveller returns
WitA the last trunk made Of pepisr Raeke, water
proOfed with AsphAltum,
WAR MOsQuTrOEs ARE ToR.-Dr Samuel W
Francis, of the New York Academy Of Medicine.
says Educ alton teaches us to beyond the
face Taking my standpoint the Aphorism that
all things were crestsd for purpose it is my firm
conviction that the mosquito created for the pur
pose Of driving from nAlRrial districts for do
not believe that 10 nature any region where ehills
and fever prevails be free from this little animal.
Nov, If man viii not 60, after the warning is given
il humning accents, thsn the mosquito injeots
hypOdermcay little liquid which answers two pur-
Poses-frsty to render the blood thin enough to be
drawn mp through in its tube, and secondly in order
inject that which possesses the principles Of qui-
nine. This theory published in 1871. and it was
ridicued at first by many, but recently German
philosophers have actually obtained the liquid from
mosquitoes, and by careful analysis discovered that
it contained the " principle Of quinine."
MORE WOMEN THAN MES GERNANr.-sOme in
terestng figures bearing upon the proportion Of males
and females in the German Empire, have recently
been published. Emigration has for many years
caused constant drain upon the strongest of the
young male population Of Germany, and the effect OF
this emigration upon the proportion of the sexes has
been increased by the Of 1864 1866, 1870 and I
ISL which rendered The military bardens Of the peo
pie intOlerAble, independent Of the loss the
male population by the deaths Of soldiers in these
wars. In 1855 the excess Of females was S4s $751; |
which declined in the following nine years of peace
to 3l3 ,SS2. 1t the end Of lS66-that IS after the
SchlesWig- Holstein and Austrian wars-the excess
bad in years increased to 47l.SS5. In December
1871, however, the effects Of the Fenrch war were /
shown in Ascertained surplus female population Of
755.s75. Thus in years the excess Of females 4
over males increased by no less than Il per cent.
Cosr OF TuxSELs.-The Mount Cenis tunnel has
cost SIS OOO 600; but this was all rock, requiring
Aborious and expensive blasting. There Is a tunnel
in EnglAnd-that Of Kilsby which has been bored in
softer material like that be constructed under the
English Channel hut in which also vast quantities Of
water often drowned the works, requiring thirteen
steam engines, 200 horses. and 500 men, working
night and day. The engines pumped from the quick
sand alone 900 gallons Of water per minute not
wthstAnding this, the expenses were after compile
iion, scarcely half as much per mile they in
The Mount Gents tunnel and if the English Channel
tunnel is this rate il s estim only $2s
600 000 If at the rate Of the Mount Gents tunnel it
would cost some $50. 600 oooi bot then with our
I'D -.
Gents tunnel il not half the original cost, at least
two-thirds, or S25 600 600.
TIE SAND BLAsT1xs The practical value Of that
wonderful invention, the sand blast has been dem
Ontraied in such a variety Of modes and applications
70 admit Of \ doubt in regard to its permanent
place IN operative meehanisms. It reprOduces on
glass the finest steel engrarings it the most
delicate designs cut glass, it engraves ca1eos,
and does in Eve miautes work which it takes the
most industrious stone cutter hours to accomplish
solid granite and marble disOlving before it quicker
than snow mets in hot sun. And all this is on the
simple principle tha, sand the surface of glass
and other mineral, but not upon any vegetable or
unimal substance; so that when surface Of glass
or Is partly covered with paper coth lcath
sr grease or ink the sand viii fall harmlessly away
from the paper, etc, but will eat into mineral as GER
tain acids eat into steel
A Washington special says The Repubiieun con-
tsips an article setting forth that the Centennial EE
position is in danger; that matters stand,
there Is possibility that will either fail altogether
or be postponed In this connection It declares that
Gen Joseph Havey Of copneetieEt, the President Of
the Board Of Directors. has grown unpopular to an
extent that seriously impairs his usefulness the
head Of the enterprise and assuming that HaHley
will resign states that the friends Of General P. E.
Spinner are disposed insist that be be put at the
head Of this Board, if be viii consent to accept the
place. !
A PALACE OF LETTERs.-Ne~ York city has not a
Palace Hotel like the metropolis Of the Pacific coast
bot sbs boasts, in her new Post 0fhee building,
which was frst opened business the 3oth ult,
an almost equally large and magnificent Palace Of
Letters Covering. with its Eve or six stories Of
granite nearly an the part Of City Hall Park
hat vas leh It casts the old granite Astor House
and the mere projections white marble Herald build
inr quite in the shade yet the Herald seems prOud
Of il as n neighbor, and In its number Of the seth
publishes diagram af this last work Of the discard
"a hat soaring Muett the huge proportions Of which.
together with eight millions Of dollars it cost the
Government will be triumph to the architect for
ever II has been six years in building
THE GurBGRD ISTEREEST oUEsTTOS.-MoSrREAL,
c.-,.-,b., -Guibard's remains were guarded at