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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
Human Leather.

The question (says the Scientific Ameri-
CAM is whether, in this age of utilization,
we are going to allow the bodies of the
dead to remain unutilized. Although the
majority of mankind will doubtless prompt
ly dispose of this not over agreeable con-
sideration by an unequivocal affirmative,
two shoemakers in this city think other
wise; and they exhibit handsome pair of
boots made from human leather in support
of their views. The skin was furnished
from the front and back of dissecting
room subject, who had died suddenly from
accident, and upon whom decay had not
yet begun to act. 1t was placed in solu-
ton of hemlock and white oak bark, and,
after the tanning, which lasted three weeks,
emerged in the shape of soft, pliable,
light brown leather, like fine calf skin, but
more porous. The available skin on good
sized man, says these progressive Crispins,
will make the legs and uppers of two pairs
of boots after allowing for reasonable waste.
This is the second utilization that has been
proposed. The other was to cremate the
bodies in gas retorts, and to convert the
volatile matter into illuminating gas, and
the bones into phosphates.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
A Mode, Railway saloon.

The Great Eastern Railway, England, is
now running a new saloon, which has been
built at the company's works at Stratford.
The carriage is divided into FIVE compsrt-
ments, the one at each end being for SER
wants and luggage respectively. The
former is very conveniently furnished with
green Utrecht velvet seats and backs, hat
nets, etc., and has bell communication
with the body of the saloon, which is APP
preached therefrom through an antecham-
Der furnished with morocco lounge and a
falhug-leaf table, making a very convenient
divan. This chamber leads through a
sliding-door into the body of the carriage,
which consists of spacious saloon, trim
med with maroon morocco, and enliveued
with the elaborate floral devices and gilt
mouldiugs with which the ceiling is adorn-
cd. The furniture and fittings are satin
wood, and consist of a couch, settee, arm
chairs, and a folding. table, at which ten
persons can be conveniently seated, the
floor being covered with rich Brussels
carpet. The remaining compartment
(Which is at the luggage end of the car
rage and is entered from the saloon oppo-
site to the sliding-door leading from the
antechamber) is fitted up with every con-
venience as lavatory. The floor is tesse-
lated wood, and the walls are covered with
flock paper printed two shades of green,
the ceiling being relieved with gold mould.
ing. The carriage is built of teak, varnish.
ed, and is carried on two boyle underframes
with an arrangement of springs calculated
to give the greatest possible ease in travel.
ing, and it is reported perfect success.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28

A Colossal Aquarium.

NJ. ToselG, whose ingenious graphing
irons and other marine apparatus we have
frequently described, has devised an in
genious and novel plan for exhibiting his
inventions under conditions of actual use,
and in connection with a mammoth aqua
rum to be erected at the French Interna-
ton Exposition of 1873. He proposes to
erect circular iron edifce, some 80 feet in
height, by 60 feet in diameter. In this
will be huge tank, which will be furnish
ed with rocks and marine vegetation, and
will contain large number of fish of all
kinds. On the sides of the tank are to be
inserted powerful lenses, and the annular
space between tank and building will be
divided into galleries, SO that visitors in
each gallery may look through lenses and
thus view submarine life at various depths.
In the tank will also be placed NJ. Toselli's
submarine mole, curious invention some
what analogous to the diving bell, but
which carries its own air supply and is ca
ing the water in its vicinity by means of
the electric light After viewing the de-
scent of this apparatus from the upper gall
cry, the visitor is to be conducted to the
gallery next below. This corresponds to a
descent of about ten feet below the surface,
at which point the water still retains its
blue color. On the next floor below, a
depth of % feet is reached, and here the
water becomes green, the summit of the
rocks on the bottom become visible. and
the motions of the huge fish can plainly be
followed. On the lowest floor the visitor
will be able to see the interior of the SUBJ
marine mole as it rests on the bottom, and
at the same time will view the sponges,
corals, and other inhabitants of the ocean
bed Illuminated by the electric light.
NJ. Toselli will occasionally wreck small
vessel loaded with ten tons or SO of stone,
allow her to sink and then will raise her
again by new automatic apparatus which
he calls the air-hydric chain. Visitors will
also be carried down in the submarine
mole, which is large enough to accommo-
date four persous.-Revue Industrielle.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
Pretty or Not.

To be pretty is the great object of almost
ture upon the improperly of doing so.
Beautiful women spend great deal of
thought upon their own charms, and home
ly women grow homely through fretting
because they are not handsome.
Men, at least while they are young, are
very like women in this respect, though
they hide their feelings better.
There is one comfort to the homely ones,
however.
After You come to know people very in
timately, you do not know whether they
are pretty or not.
Their "ways" make an impression on
you, but not their noses and ears, their ewes
and mouths.
In time, the soul expresses itself to you,
and it is that which You see.
A man who has been married twenty
years scarcely knows what his wife looks
like.
He may declare that he does, and tell you
that she is bewitching little blonde, with
soft blue eyes, long after she is fat and red
and forty; because the image of his early
love is IN his heart, and he doesn't see her
as she is to-day, but as she was when he
courted her.
Or, being an indifferent husband, he may
not know that she is the fine woman that
other people think her.
You have known men who have married
the plainest women, and think them beau
ties: and you know beauties, who are quite
thrown away on men who value wife 70,
her success as cook.
As far as ones effect on strangers is tc
be taken into consideration, beauty is yalu.
able and very valuable.
So, if you have it, rejoice; but if you
have it not, be content.
Take care of your heart, your soul, you
mind, and your manners, and you will
make for yourself that beauty which viii
render you lovely to those who are nearest
and dearest to you.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
AlIigators in Florida.


The Jacksonville Union of February Is,
says: Notwithstanding the immense num-
Der of alligators which have been killed
during the past four or five years in this
State, they do not seem to decrease in
numbers as one would naturally suppose.
Captains of steamboats, on the st. John s
say that they are apparently as numerous
as ever, although very large ones are sell
dom seen now in this part of the State, but
in the marshes and lakes on the Upper st.
Johns, and all over the more southern
parts of the State, they are still found in
large numbers. No one seems to know
the length of time required for an alligator
to come to years of discretion and size,
and if there are any marks by which the
age can be known, they are kept secret,
but it is certain that they are prolific in
their increase, a nest often containing two
hundred eggs, most of which hatch, and,
unless destroyed by violence, large pro.
portion of the young are raised. A few
years since the skins were in demand at
from fifty cents to one dollar each, and
thousands were slaughtered. In one in
stance, single individual killed within a
space of five months over one thousand to
fill contract, but as that species of leather
soon went out of fashion the business de-
clined, but seems to be reviving again
somewhat. Another inducemeut to their
capture is the teeth, which frequently COM
mand high prices, and are standard arti-
Gle of commerce in the Southern markets,
mostly for ornamental purposes. The
largest Florida alligator of which the writer
has been able to obtain an authentic ac-
count measured eighteen feet in length.
Those exceeding fifteen feet are very rarely
seen in this State
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28

Secondly, one word on washing the hair.
This is necessary occasionally, to thoroughly
cleanse both head and hair. One or two
precautions must be taken, however.
Never use soap if you can avoid it; if you
do, let it be the very mildest and unper-
fumed. Avoid so-called hair.cleansing
fluids. and use rain water filtered
The yolks of two new-laid eggs are much
to be preferred to soap they make beau
tiful lather, and when the washing is fin
ished, and the hair thoroughly rinsed in the
pnre rain water, you will find when dry
that the gloss will not be destroyed, which
an alkali never fails to do. The first water
must not be very hot, only Just warm, and
the last perfectly cold. Dry with soft
towels-but do not rub till the skin is ten
der-and afterward brush. Be always
careful to have your brushes and combs
perfectly clean and free from grease, and
place other brushes on the table for friends
of yours who happen to be Macassarites.
Pointing the hair regularly not only pre-
vents it from splitting at the ends, but rem
ders each individual hair more healthy and
less attenuated- may apply the term to
hair-and moreover, keeps up the growing
process, which otherwise might be blunted
or checked. Siugeing the tips of the hair
has also beneficial effect.
1t will be seen that am no advocate foi
oils and pomades. My advice in all cases
is to do without them if you possible can
for by their clogging nature and oversti
mulating properties they often cause thu
hair to grow thin and fall off sooner thar
it otherwise would. Let well alone.
One word in conclusion, about dyes. Avoit
them if you be your own friend. Hair dye
ing is very satisfactory as far as dead hal
is concerned, but on the living head its per
feet success is chemical impossibility. A
to hair restorers, those that are not simpl,
staiuers, but depend upon the action of tn
light chemically altering and oxidizing tn
application after it has been used their in
cautious use, must add, is fraught witt
great danger.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
Civil Engineering.

MIR II. A. de LANUN CIVIL ENGINEER
N and Surveyor, Is prepared TO undertake Land
veying in all branches Maps constructed with full
details Information given in regard to the quality OF
soils and their adoption for cultivation taking into
sideration locality, accessibility, etc
WATER LEADS.-Esmates given in regard to size,
cost and capacity, and Of power furnished by
for machinery.
ROADS AND BRIDGES.-Plans and estimates made
with OF obtaining the best results with the smallest
outlay.
He is also prepared give instruction tropical cult
walton.
Address the above through the Honolulu Post Office
l6gl-3ml
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF CLOTH
ING AND SHAwLS.
SADDLES

CslfElns &C. C0rEs rarfamery &C, Lubins Extracts
E-aH o. CollEas, raIi0come HAIR on and Macassslr,
Fancy sS.saFis. Windsor. &C
Iasssl y'aanl,s, Tooth brushes, Hair brushes.
L.alEllE Glasses and Mirnors, Imitation Jewelry,
I.ezeers, Journals, &c, Paving Cards,
Ilar1lduilzzs. ] Il Balls, Feather busters,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
Pacific Rubber Paint Company's
PAINTS!
rINHIs ARTICLE is FOR SALE BY
BoLLES & Co.

The Rubber Paint is Justly celebrated, is coming
into general use and all who given trial highly
recommend IL. The undersigned have general assort
of all colors and shades and will keep the
e0g BoLLES d Co.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28

" LULU, Visiting Friends and Strangers generny are
cordially invited to attend Public Worship FORT ST.
CHURCH, where Services held every Sabbath at II
O'Clock A. NJ and ~ Z. NJ. Seats provided all
VINO may be pleased to attend. There is a Wednesday
evening Prayer eeting * O'Clock, In the Lecture
Room, TO which Hare welcome. s24Iy
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
HARDWARE

c-aslea sugar. Wash Blue, sariines, salt RAislns,
Mustard. RAEes, &C, &c
>IeaEiE Candles and safety Matches,
LlaaoTz &c, BoaieIieaus Brandy-I, ., 4 diamond,
Gin 10 baskets and green cases,
CilzruFz.gue-I eidsieck, Huinart. Thoreaux,
SPARKLING HScE, Rhine Vine Bsvarian Beer,
- FAui's Ale quarts and pInts,
5eirsy's Ale. quarts and pints Bitters, &C
and Havana Cigars, at low prices, 10 close consign
meuts, In lots 10 suit &c, &c, &C.
Ordcrs frOu, tie Otler Island. Promptly Executed
Market Rates 6l2
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
Manufacturing JeweIerg
Notice..
TIME UNDERsIGyEp. FoRMER1y WITH

FHNHE UNDERSIGNED. FORMERLY WITH
IL Mr. Eckart, begs inform citizens of Honolulu and
the public generally, that he has Fort
Street opposite Odd Fellows Hall, formerly occupied by
Thos Tannatt where he will give special 10 the
manufacturing and repairing Of all kinds of Jewelry
Particular attention given Shell and Kukui Work
RS VIII guarantee satisfaction In all his work "a
GO I'm VIM. N. wENNER.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
For Sale or For Lease.

y. n flsEASANT-
E6 ly located with garden &C. containing parior three
s4&bedrooms two closets, dining ROOM kitchen and
pantry, bathroom, house. carriage house and
stable all very convenient and In perfect order Apply to
55l II HUGO STANGENwALD, M d,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-28
LApIEs srockINGs ASSORTED

Cllaargas stockines- shirts, fancy flannel Canton,
Lsl1-. i.ezsEtl- Denim. eke-
Ialsrshlrls -Cdttoa. Merin0 and SIlk
Imh-allzs Ilalizn black, NecEles.
H. md Ool0-rd >lk Eibb0ns-Intout cas-.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-21

In order to make good butter, it is neces-
sary that the buttermilk should be thorough
ly expelled. There are two methods in prac-
tice-Ope in which water is used in washing
out the buttermilk, and the other where no
water Is employed, the butter being freed
from the buttermilk by pressing or kneading
it ont during the process of working. Both
processes have their advocates among skilful
butter-makers. but the largest number OF
first-class butter-makers use water. The but
ter-makers of Orange County, as well as those
at most of the creameries and butter factories
of the country, employ water in rinsing out
the buttmilk. We are inclined to favor the
latter practice, because it does not require so
much labor as the other method, while at the
same time there is less liability of iDjuring the
grain-a very serious defect in butter, and one
which reduces butter to the second class,
however well made otherwise. 1t is true that
very skilful butter makers may work out the
buttermik without water; but where this
high skill is wanting, it will be much safer to
use water for the purpose. The argument is
used by some butter-makers who are opposed
to washing butter, that the water carries away,
In the process of washing, some of the flavor
ing oils, and hence there is higher aroma to
unwashed butter. We do not regard the
claim as OF much weight, unless the washing
be carried to excess.
at uadny vi tuC UulGcE idCtuTleS buo Dulk OF
the washing is done in the churn before the
butter has been removed, and in the subse-
sequent working very little water is required,
and only so much as will leave no milky color
to the water as it passes off. The two lead
ing or essential points in butter making are
10 free it thoroughly from buttermilk and to
have the texture and grain perfect. Butter
that is worked or kneaded over so as to be
salvy soon turns to what is known in the
frad do I,,ks.
worked and handled as little as possible.-K.
Il. Willard.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-21
Portland Wholesale Prices Current
Corrected for the PRESS to March II, 1875.


Blasting. 80. 3 so "a 4 90
Sporting. -. 8 so q 6 so
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Rhubarb.

The Rhubarb, or Pie-plant, is usually grown
from divisions OF the roots, for every portion
which has an eye will form plant. Occas-
ionally persons prefer to grow from seeds 1t
will take two years to obtain strong plant
from seed, but a package of seeds in two years
will give enough plants to stock a neighbor-
hood. Give good, rich, deep, mellow soil,
both to seeds and plants. In the spring, two
weeks before frost is gone, cover two Of the
the roots and around the barrels leaves, straw
or manure, and the earliest and tenderest
stalks will be the result.-Vick's Vegetable
Garden,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-21

A writer in the London Garden says that
fine effect is produced by this method of train
ing petunias: He procures number of hazel
rods, each about two feet long, bends them
like hoops, and drives both ends of them into
the bed, placing them at suitable intervals all
over it. On these he ties and trims his petu-
this treatment. Petanias have been success
fully treated as if sweetpea vines, and trained
on slanting trelis. The trailing habit of
this plant, especially late in the season, is not
always sufficiently considered.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-21
To Make Soft SOap.

Take twelve pounds white potash, twenty
four pounds grease; dissolve the potash In
one paiiul OF cold water; melt the grease and
pour In; let it stand one day then add water
"a paiiul at time-till it becomes of proper
consister cy. say pailful each morning: stir
ring well. Two or three pailiuls of I've in
place of the water improves it but is NOT nee
essary. This quantity will make nearly a
barrel of good soap. -
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ElOur,

Superfine -. 5 IS q 6 %
Ex-Spring.,. Z 90 @ 7 50
k Spring.. Z 90 q Z rs
Patti Spring
wheats. 10 OF oil 90
Mich'n VIM
ter best.... 8 % a 8 so
Lo W grade
Michigan. Z % q Z 80
St.Louis WIN
ter fair. ... a 8 rs
Win'r good 9 so @lO 90
" best. 8 IS @10 90
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God, per 1tl..

Dbl. ..... 4 80 a 8 90
Scal'dPbx. 10 q %
No. l.. -. IA 90 @18 90
Mackerel, ~ Dbl.
Bay No LIS 90 @16 90
Bay Nd. Q. Z so "a 800
Large 3d.. 8 90 a 9 90
Shore Mol Is 10 OILS 90
No. 2.... 8 90 @l0 so
No. g.. ...
Medium. :. 6 so OF 50
Clam Bait, 4 90 "a 8 90
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MEDICAL.
S NJ E EZ | NJ G
CATARRH.

This is constant sneeze, sneeze sneeze until your
discharge excessive quantities of mucus, thin acrd
and poisonous, until unfit for business or pleasure
mortals destined to suffer periodically the greatest
distress without relief or consolation. Every
draught, every breath Of the air seems an enemy in
Disguise This is properly called Acute Catarrh
and commonly, Cold in the Head. Its constant re-
currence is due to constitutionay weak diseased
nasal organs, and enfeebed action of the perspira-
tory glands. In the permanent cure of this dis
tressipg malady SANBoRN's RADICAL CURE FOR
CATARRH is a never failing specific. Instant
relief follows the first dose. Its destroys the
predispose people to this disease and is sure to
vent an attack of CHRONIC OR ULoERATIvE
CATARRH.
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Mailing Grape Vines 10 Stakes.

A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer says
he trains his vines to the top of the seven feet
stakes, and then nails the brances to the top,
thus saving all tying forever afterwards.
This is, no doubt, an excellent idea, and it is
a wonder no one has thought OF 1t before, He
says he has applied for patent, and if grant
ed, people shall be allowed to drive the nails
ION most reasonable terms,'' sssgSx
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UL CE A " 6
CATARRH.

This is the destructive and terrible stage of the
disease The whole nasal passage, including the eyes
and ears the tonsils, throat, bronchial tubes and
lungs become, one after another affected, nhamed,
monster. A peculiar acid is generated and set at
liberty by this disease. which, permeatng the blood,
weakens and destroys its renovaing power, and al
ady until this poison is neutraized and expelled 1t
is here that constitutional treatment becomes of the
most vital consequence "because unless arrested at
this stage the disease will make rapid progress
towards pulmonary consumption - WaTTen's
Household Physician. Meanwhile soothing, heal
ing and astringent medicine must be applied directly
to the nasal passages this forming the most perfect
treatment of the disease possible,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-21
Portland Dry Dock and Ware
house Company,
First Meeting of BOndhOlders'
CORPORATION.

WHEREAS the Portland Dry Dock and Ware
w house Company, corporation duly established
by the the State of Maine, on the third day of
October A D. 1868, issued its bonds of that date to
the amount of Two hundred thousand dollars paya-
BILE at the National bank of the Republic in Boston,
in ten years from me the rst gay Of &C.
rate of seven per centum per annum, according to
the coupons annexed thereto.
And whereas said corporation on said third day of
October A. d. 1863 by its Mortgage Deed of that
date conveyed to Charles E. Barrett and Samuel E,
Spring, Trustees, its real estate situated in Cape
Elizabeth, in the county Of Cumberland, and State
of Name, which said mortgage was rec0r led the
Cumberland Registry of Deeds, Book 1862, Pages
$780, 400, 401 400, and was given for the purpose of
securing and was conditioned for the payment OF said
bonos with interest as aforesaid, which said mort
gage and bonds were duly authorized by the charter
of said corporation. and by vote thereof at legal
meeting thereof.
And whereas on the twenty -seventh day of Oeto-
Der, A u. 1873, the conditions of said mortgage hav
ing been Heretofore broken the said Trustees
menced proceedings for foreclosure thereof by Civ
ing notice thereof by publication pursuant to The
statute in case made and provided, and the
first publication thereof as made on the thirtieth
day Of October, A ID. 1873, and said proceedings
were duly completed and recorded according to law
in said Registry, Book 4o6, Page US and the time
the holders Of said bonds and coupons, secured by
said oItgage, are created and have become cor
poratiop by force of the Statute in such case made
and provided.
Now therefore notice is hereby given by the UNDER
signed, residents of Portland, in the county of Cum
land and state of Maine, holders of said bonds
and coupons, that the first meeting Of said new cor
poration OF the holders of said bonds and coupons
Will be held at the counting room of Messrs. J. b.
Brown & Sons, No. 40 Exchange street, in said Port
land, in said county and state, on WEDNESDAY,
the twenty first day of March, A, d. 1877, at three
of the clock in the afternoon, to complete the or
ganzation of said bondholders corporation, adopt
new name by which it shall always after be known,
elect board of directors and other officers adopt all
necessary bylaws and transact such other business
as may be necessary complete the organization of
said corporation.
JACOB MCCLELLAN,
j B. BROWN 81 SONS,
PORTLAND SAVINGS BANK,
by Frank Moves, Treasurer.
A. b. STEPHENSON,
l. d. M. SWEAT,
A. A. STROUT.
j. S. WlNSLOW.
Portland, Maine, March 10, 1877. ma12dtd