River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-01-20

PLAN any difficulty which may arise in
such studies as we have here indicated
and we promise our readers every assist
ance that we can gave them. 4 refer
ence 10 the inquiries which are made
week after week would clearly show how
many of them would be Unnecessary, and
how much time and trouble would be
saved If even the few standard books
here mententioned we're at hand to be
consulted or were studied.
A VISIT TO THE ISLAND or MOLOKAL
Correspondence of the San Francisco Chron-
iclel
1t was hot August day in Honolulu
and there the weather is hot IN sua.-
mcr time. The weather may not be SO
intense MS III some Of our eastern states.
hu. il is more prOStrating and eneryating.
| had hardly ventured out OF the hotel
all day, and when | did. no further than
the post, three or four blocks distant.
Not that / went to the postoiiicc Tor mail
matter; the mails seldom arrive there
more than once month-on steamer
days except once week, when the local
mail matter from the different islands of
the group; but II is generally the walk
or stroll from the hotel to the postotlice
and back again. not for exercise. because
one wants as little of that as possible in
Honolulu in the summer time. One
must do something to pass away the
time, and the postofiice and government
building are about the only places enc
can stroll To in town; and that day, as |
walked aloag the street beneath my um-
brella, painting for breath and pausing
occasionally in the shade of some over
hanging balcony, ! could not but be in.
terested in the dreamy appearance of
everything about me. That is the ma
ture of the climate in the summer season.
Even the trees aud flowers seemed to be
in dream, and the leaves and petals
hung inert IN the motlonless air. The
crickets and harvest locusts and miners
Ia pretty speckled bird) were asleep and
dreaming. At any rate, the, sang not
nor revealed their whereabouts. TIE
very dogs along the streets seemed in n
commandment state, and after pausing
and painting a few moments on their
launches, with lolling tongues and misty
eyes. they would start up as if in
dream, and dash along a few PAGES, and
then fall back OF their rear guard to rest
again. kanaka beauties within the yard
enclosures along the streets were sprawl
ed upon their mats beneath the balconies,
faces and forms turned downward, and
dressed in loose calico robes and even
they, from the slight motions visible,
seemed tO he
DREAMING OF POI AND RAW FISH
or Of their absent kanes (men) In the
stores the whites dad not appear to be
much more active, and only among the
wharfs, where the native boys were in
bathing like schools of fish, did there APP
pear 20 be any vitality manifest. And
those boys appear to be about half water
animals of some kind. They 1--we in il
the greater part Of the time. They can
dive to almost any depth, and never miss
securing ten-cent piece tossed into the
water, before IT can reach the bottom.
In only a single instance out OF hun
bred did | ever know them to fail, and
then ten-year-old boy dove fifteen feet
and brought the money up in handful
OF mud. have seen a school Of forty
boys swim half a mile out 10 a ship, and
there play around her ia the water
picking mp stray pieces Of silver
tossed overheard, Tor hours, aud
then SWIM blck apparently as fresh as
ever But IL was on such day as
have described above, and after dinner
that assembled TO the cupola, or tower,
on top Of the Hawaiian hotel, To- see the
sunset. Beneath me lay the city in all
ITS mystic silence concealed from view
amid the tense foliage. Thirty years ago
there were but four trees in llonolslu
Now the city Is invisible beneath the
foliage. Stretched all around the rear
Of the city, and thanking IL on either side,
was a range Of mountains, penetrated in
the center by the beautiful Nuusnu val.
ley running back sis on seven miles up To
the Pdii, on precipice, 1000 feet high,
which affords such a magnificent view Of
the country and sea beyond. On my left
was Diamond Head. 1000 feet IN per.
pcndcular height above the sea flashing
us base. A boy, few howilzers and ma
tive soldiers; and, all, around, the city
seemed girdled with strength and beauty.
In front Of me, Ou the right. or toward
the west, slept the quite bay, on whose
gentle bosom sumbcrcd three mcn.ofwa
Representatives Of England and Amcri-
ca nayics. Mooicd 10 the wharycs quiet.
10 lay half dozen merchantmen repre-.
sentng the commerce of the island.
Along the channel. out towards the sea,
bobbcd half a dozen buoys. AMI on my
left stretched far, Tar away 10
CALIFORNIA \ uoLprK COAST
the vast expansive sea. across whose
bhlowy bosom rolled the nfrequent
hunks of traffic Dasline down his serial
pathway Iehnd the mountains ~ the
west. the sinking sun crimsonod the sky
with IL. last lingering rays u flame, gid.
"a the scattered clouds with golden
edges, and made a scene Of grandeur aud