The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-09-01
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it. To study tho world Is better than to shun It. To
use the world is better than to abuse IT, To make the
world better, lOvolior and happier is the noBos work
Of mar or woman.
The number Of Sunday Schools in the United State,
is ss.2oo; teachers. s4o. eTs scholars 1857 s67-
according 70 the report Of the Statistical Secretary Of
the international Sunday School Convention now in
session at Bsltimoro.
Mounting fluid for microscopic objects is made Of
gelatin. one ounce; honey, Eve ounces distilled
water, Eve ounces; rooihed sphits, ono-half ounce
and creosote, six drops. Filter through fue flannel
Heat the honey before adding to the gelatin, which
last must be dissolved in the boiling water. When
cool, add the ereosote.
CocUAnut Pudding.-Break the shell Of m oderate
sired eOeOa-uut, to leave the nut as whole as
possible. Crate it after removing the brown skin,
mix it with So1 ofpowdere1 white sugar. aud lo7 Of
lemon peel. Mix the whole with milk and put it into
a tin lined with puff paste. Bake light brown.
The Government Of ceylOn has taken measures for
thorough investigation Of the new disease affecting
the coaecplsnt. Il is called 'leaf disease as it
attacks and destroys the foliage 1t is believed By
competent Observers be the result of exhaustion,
among
lemon plantations, OF which We spoke week or two
ago. The demand is increasing andin oeylon for
the cultivation of tea, cinnamon, cinchona, vanilla,
coffee, and other useful plants.
AETIFIcIALLr- CoLORED PLASrs.-A rare collection
Of art6cialycolored plants from China is on exhib-
ton in the great glass house of the Accmatization
Gardens in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris One Of the
most curious things in the collection is a dwarf oak
that is nearly 100 years old 1t is about 20 inches in
height, its trunk is thick as finger, or, say. an
inch in diameter and its roots will hardly FIJI the hol
low Of mans hand. It is in dwarfng plants that
the art Of the Chinese Agriculturst is most trikingy
manifested.
1t is startling fact that one pair Of rats, with
their progeny will produce in three years no less
number than 646,SOs. A doe rat will have from six
to eight nests Of young every year for four years to-
gether, and from twelve to tWenty-three at litter
and the young doe will breed at three months old
and there are more females than males at anaverace
Of about ten to six. If they ran about the streets
like cats dogs the public would be terrified but as
they hide and work in the dark. men seldom see or
think Of them.
LEAF AND FLOWER INPREss1oxs.-Oil piece of
white paper side hold the side that is oiled
over alamp rpineknot smoke till quite black place
the leaf the black surface as the veins and fbres
Of the leaf show palmer the underpa now press
it on all parts of the leaf with the fingers then take
up the leaf and put the black oiled sides on the page
Of book made for leaf impressions, with an extra |
piece Of paper on the top to prevent shutting the Op-
posito page prss it few moments then remove the
green leaf. and the impression will be left on the
page as beautiful as engraving. Flowers Of single
eorolla can be pressed in like manner. Many gera-
mum leaves make beautiful impressions. The i'm
preston book may be made still more interesting by
giving botanical classifcatiOns
Summer episode, as evolved by little Johnny:
Last summer our dog TOwser was a lying in the sun
trine to sleep, but the flies was that bad he cudden
cos he had to catch EN-, and bime by bee lit on
his he'd, and was wOking bout like the dog was
hisn TOwsor he bel his he'd STILL and, when the bee
was close to his nose, Towser winked at me- like he
said you what this dufer is a doin, he thinks I'm
lily Of the valley which issent open yet but you jis
wait till blossom and you will see sum fun and sure
enuf Towser opened his mouth very slow so as not to
friten the bee, and the bee went inside TOwser's
mouth. Then TOwser he shet his dreamy eyes, and
his mouth too, and had begun to make peaceful
smile wen the bee stung him, and you never see
lily Of the valley ack SO in ol your life.
"An port wine hitherto exported for the English
market is largely mixed with brandy, and is composed
as much Of elderberries of grapes. The way in
which what in England is called port wine has hith
erto been manufactured for the London market is
this The PaI de VRnhRterio abound in elder trees
the berries Of these trees are dried in the sun or in
<ilns. Then wine is then thrown on them, and the
berries troddeu las previously the grapes) till it
Is thoroughly saturated with the cOloring matter of
the berries Brandy is then added in the proportion
of from three sixteen gallons every pipe of lis
gallons. This is the composition of all the port wine
hitherto drank in England. No pure wine, no wine
lOt thus specially adulterated for the English taste,
allowed by the government committee of tasters
70 pass the bar Of Douro before the year 1865. The
writer Of the above note is may mention, the pre-
ent Lord Lytton, of the great novelist butbetter
Known to the public as Owen Meredith"
ELECTRICITY AS A MovISe PowER.-A San Fran .
scO newspaper gives the following account of in
-ention which mechanic of that city has ap-
,ied for patent The principle is the construction
or driving wheels, of enormous electro magnets,
yhieh diverge from the in the form the
POkes of ordinary wheel, the poles of each mag
et terminating with the outer circumference. The
leetric circuit is complete as the magnet impnges
pOn the steel rail of the track. AS the poles of each
magnet forming the driving wheel approach the track
n enormous magnetic attraction is exerted, and as
hey pass the centre, perpendicular point of the
Magnet upon the track, the current is cut Of from
ach particular magnet and the attraction abated c
y the multiplication of driving-wheels Of this de-
orptiOn the inventor expects to acquire any degree
power requisite, and accomplish any rate Of speed
which railroad is capable Of travelling, with
0 possible danger Of the locomotives leaving the
ack. In place Of the cumbersome steam-bOiler and
lnder loaded with coal, the locomotive will carry
agnetic battery of immense power. Il
The Los Angeles Herald records the fact that
mpany has been formed in that city for the purpose
raising eucalyptus trees for fuel and manufacturing
arposes Two hundred acres of land have been Sc
lred within mile, which eucalyptus trees only g,
years old from seed are now growing.
hich measure sixteen in ches in diameter and are
rty feet high. It is estimated that each of
ese trees is worth one dollar for fuel and more for
anufaeturing purposes. FOresters calculate that
% of these trees can be grown to the acre and
lires no great calculation to show how profitable
ch business may be made. The company organ