The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-02-12
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence Of the Gosette.l ]

NEW YORK, Jan. i, 1879.
Another public excitement comes from Brooklyn,
that city of perennial sensations. This time it is
girl who apparently subsists on air. For thirteen
years this appetiteless female has-so they say
existed without tzking much solid food Ordi
nary school girl could easily dispose of in day She
can-sO they say--fOllOw mentally the movements
of an absent person, matter how intricate num-
erOus those movements may be. She can't is al
leged-read letters without taking them from their
enveOpes in fact take them of their envelopes
would simply be useless operation, for this prodigy
Of girl is totally blind. She ean-it is asserted
unfold the past history of every who enters the
house. and unerringly tell the name. age. appear
anee. occupation, aud moral character Of q person
before be- she, the threshold ef her
These startling feats certified by witnesses
numerous that their name is legion. One astrono-
mer. two three professors, several doctors. and
any number of clergyuen to be found am on z
those who their belief in the reality of the
phenomena This young lady is unfortunate in being
Protestant had she been Of the Catholic faith she
might have created tremendous fHrore among the
believers in modern miracles; she would have had
interviews with the Virgin Mary. and shrines would
have been erected in consequences. As il is. she
serts that she has heaven, and describes the
gates of pearl and the streets of gold coin
eide in strangely accurate manner with the
given Of the heavenly Jerusalem in the Revelations of
St. John the Divine. In fact one might be forgiven
for supposing that that is where she obtained the
ideas the subject.
II the of this girl be genuine then the laws of
Nature, as far we know them, 90 for naught
Psychology is still in its very infancy and when it
attains 10 very much hi gher plane Of Development
it may perhaps render explanation of such cases
that Of Miss Fancher possible. At present however
her snd similar prove the existence either
of laws Of which absolutely ignorant. or
else Of stupendous deceit and Unlimited gullibility.
People are INDUCING in quiet laugh over one of
the late cathedral fairs. 1t appears that magnif-
cent sword presented by somebody to be given
! to the most popular general in the United States
army, such popularity to be shown by votes cast in
the eathedral-tbe right TO vote costing ten cents.
Well, Sherman didn't get the sword, neither did
/ Geo. B. Mcclellan, yet dashing Phil Sheridan
/ but Wye got it. Who Sc General Wyiie did hear
ask? 1 really have not the faintest idea,
nor apparently has anybody else The records of
the war are silent on the subject of Wye, and but
| for his sudden popularity within the walls of the
cathedral he would have still been unknown to fame.
correspondent of one of the papers says that Wy
lie is not the only general in the army, who like the
Har-horse mentioned in Job, :" smelleth the battle
| afar off," But then those generals don't receive
swords for smelling. Il is whispered that Wylies
services have been numerous and great, and that
therein lies the of his But still why
give bim sword Would it not have been better to
have presented him with some less dangerous impe-
ment-One with the of which be is more familiar
Judge Hilton, the facotum Of the late A. T. Stewart
till the death Of the latter and since that event the
cupant Of the dead mans shoes took il into his head
some time ago snub the Jews by refusing them
| admission TO bis hotel in Saratoga. And the
Jews publicly snub Judge Hilton Mrs. A. I. Stewart
ordered Judge Hilton, who is now her factotum, to
offer donations Of money TO some of the hebrew in
stitutiOns in this city but the Hebrews tell Judge
Hilton that they will receive nothing from him, OF
by his means. Good for the Hebrews The Jews are
often held up examples Of sel6shness and money.
grubbing Personihed. but doubt if the most avari
cious among them not at least equaed by the late
Alexander I. Stewart, man whose only end and
aim in life the getting and keeping of N oney
1t is q suggestive thought that the wealth which
was the result of lifes labor seems powerless tS
effect the recovery Of the stolen body Of the mar
who accumulated it.
The New York World lately bit upon q somewha
ingenious plan for securing least temporary in
creased circulation list Of twenty questions wal
Published each Sunday for I've weeks before Christ
| mas in ell one hundred questions. Prizes ranging
from fifty 70 five dollars were offered to the tHely
competitors who should earn the highest number o
marks. Some of the questions amusing 70
instance, Who invented milk punchf' "Whi
struck Billy Patterson Z" 's.W bat was Satans law
suit, and how did it resemble the Vanderbilt
and many Others equally reeondife and instructive
Out of the twelve successful Petitors eight Wer
women, which goes to shoE either that women knOS
than nen about such matters, or that the.
have mOrs leisure time upon their hands to hnnt u
| authorities.
CAmpAna, the Bridgeport pedestrian, has met th
: champion O'Leary and after six days walk ha
been beaten This result was fOregone conclusion
after the second day. CampanA did come nea
mis- Bridgeport record, and 0'Leary was not in tn
best form either. Anyone who looked at the two mel
the track must have been struck by the contrast
0Leary, about thirty Eve years Of age, straight
arrow, head erect and with his deep-set eyes fxe
straight ahead. CanpanA, or "Sport as be an
himself his shirt front, over fifty
hollow ehested, round shouldered and stopping, hi
glance wandering round the speetators or at time
bent upon the ground, his head then dropping dow
upon his chest. OLeary is the picture Of health an
manly vigor, "Sport" is hsggard looking, wit
prominent nose and sunksn mouth, deep forrow
down his cheeks, and care-Worn, hopeless expires
! sion in his eye The styles Of walking OF the tW
men are ontitkeses Of each other. The ehampio
swings round With square heel and Toe gait uhie