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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17
THE FIRE AT AMAuULU PLANTATION.

According to the personal instruc-
tions of Col. G. w. Macfarlane, the
owner given about three months ago,
two watchmen have been employed
night and day in alternate watches.
The one OH watch had gone to call
the other about midnight of last
Tuesday and had reused him, when,
turning round, he saw flames pro-
ceeding from the rear part of the
buildings near the " cooler" rooms.
Nothing was saved except the roller
mill and the water-wheel which were
in detached building. The balance
of the machinery etc, is worthless
except as old iron.
The manager, Mr.. Reinhardt, who
is now in town reports that he has
had no trouble with his labour and
for this reason. is loath to ascribe
the origin of the fire to the work of
an incendiary although it did not
break out anywhere near the fur
naces or where fire was used.
A survey was held at the mana
gers request by Messrs +. n. Ba-
con, machinist and engineer, c. e.
Richardson, sugar planter, +. G
Hitchcock, managing owner Hitch
cocks Plantation, G. G.. Kennedy,
machiuist and engineer, and mana
ger of Waiakea Sugar Mill, and S.
l.. Coan, accountant, who report the
loss as total.
The insurance amounted to be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. The
value of the mill and buildings was
about $35, 900 which is not to be
regarded as total loss as at the end
of this season it had already been
determined to put up new iron
building and take down the old ones
and also to put in such machinery
as centrifugals, boilers, pumps, etc.
The present crop was estimated al
1850 tons about $50 of which had
been ground leaving about 400 YET
to be ground. This consists prin'
cipally of rattoons and about 80
acres of plant cane. The former,
we hear, will not suffer by being al
lowed to stand over until the new
mill and buildings are put up whicl
will take 3 or 4 months. 1t is /
question, though, whether the plan
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

WE have to congratulate those who
travel up Fort ST. above Berctania St.
that, in accordance with our repeated
suggestions, the Road Supervisor is
having the foot-paths there fixed in good
style so that there will be no longer a
chance of their breaking their legs or
arms when walking along at night. The
holes and excavations next the fences
are being carefully filled with rock and
over this layer of soil is being laid.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

RESIDENTS who are supplied with
water from the King street. aFtesiag wei
are complaining that the water is muddy
and dirty since the rains. They want to
know whether it comes from the arte-
sian well as supposed or from the Nuu-
anu Valley stream.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

SOMEONE suggests now that the In
corporation fever has set in that the
whole interest of the islands. mercantile,
planting, stock-raising, Government,
ETC., be incorporated. How do you like
the idea ?
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

A Constant Reader informs us, in
answer to a BUSINESS MAN, that the
other side of the harbour is private
property belonging to two individuals,
and therefore the Government cannot
erect wharyes there till they buy these
rights out.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

The Kilauca llou took leg Portuguese
80 adults and Al ohildnen--for Grove
Ranch; II adults and is children, for
East Maui Plantation; and "a adults and
A children, for Wailuku Plantation.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

WE noticed yesterday in Messrs. G.
w. Macfarlane & Co.'S some very beauti-
full hand d-painted terra-cotta plaques and
some terra-cotta statuary just imported
which are well worth seeing.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

THEW 'atch man at the Music Hall re-
ports having found a shawl after the
performance on Saturday night. The
owner can have it on application and
paying expenses.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

mare at Manoa Valley. This Is only
one of the many instances where So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty 10
Animals would find suitable work.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

Our readers will notice that Mr.. Nor
tano offers a reward in another column
for the apprehension and conviction of
the party or partfs who shot his white
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

NINE drunks and an affray case
occupied the Police Court yesterday.
The Liquor Law doesn't seen to have
had any effect in lessening drunkenness
as its advocates used to state.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

MEssRs. G. w. Macfarlane & Co., will
probably begin to open their new goods
in three or four days.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17
Ghe lla'Ip 1BnlItfip
TUESDAY, JULY Ia, 1888.
THIS DAYS D0lNCS.
EVENING

Band ut Emma Square, at Z 80
Excelsior Lodge, L.O.O.F., 1880.
Bible Glass ut Lyceum ut 1880.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

THE Choir at Fort Street Church on
Sunday night sang 81 waited for the
Lord" and other anthems very nicely.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

MEssRs. Lyons & Levey announce
that the sale of the Music Hall at
Auction is postponed to Saturday week
at noon.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

THE last six patients from the Madras
in Quarantine were discharged on
Saturday, and not, as the advertiser
reported, week ago.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

"THERE is no gold in Heaven "
What disappointment for some of our
citizens!
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

Our admonitions have at last sue
ceeded in rousing someone to fix that
hole in road near S. X. Kaai's residence
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

The Lehua took 80 20 tugucse for
Hama Plantation.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

The Jas Makcc took 80 families and
10 single Forluguescfor MaRcc S. Co.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

THE Saturday Press will, we believe,
issue supplement to-day containing
full account of their trial for libel and
victory.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17

Most of the Portuguese immigrants
will be shipped by tonight.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-17
LOCAL g. GENERAL NEWS.

WHAT is the Board of Health going
to do about DR.. Fitch new?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
An Oily Joke.

The San Francisco Chronicle tells of a
ventriloquist who got into trouble through
his love of practical jokes. During trip on
the Mississippi few years ago, he made
friends with the engineer of the boat and
was allowed to enter the engine roam.
He took seat in corner, and pulling his
hat down over his eyes, appeared lost in re-
verie. Presently a certain part of the ma
chinery began to squeak.
The engineer oiled it and went about his
usual duties. In the course of few min
utes the squeaking was heard again, and the
engineer rushed. oil-can in hand, to lubri-
cate the same spindle.
Again he returned to his post, but it was
only few minutes until the same old spin
die was squeaking louder than ever.
"Confound the thingw he yelled, ''it's be-
witchedw More oil was administered, but
the engineer began to be suspicious as to its
cause. Pretty soon the spindle began to
squeak again; and slipping up behind the
ventriloquist, the engineer squirted half
pint Of oil down the joker's back.
There" said he, II guess that spindle
won't squeak any more"
The joke was so good that the ventrilo-
quist could not keep it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
AFAMILY OF GIANTS.
Seven Brothers, Each of Them Over
Seven Feet High.
IGlObe.Denaocrat.


The great attraction in the ladies' waiting
room at the Union depot last evening was
three giant brothers, each over seven feet in
height, with three small wives. An investiga-
tion established the fact that the men had
been East perfecting arrangements with a
circus manager to place themselves on exhibi-
ton the coming spring; that they were re-
turning from their trip highly elated over
their success and that they were raised in
Hunt county, Texas, were they owned farms,
which up to the present winter they had
cultivated in obscurity. The most remarkable
circumstance connected with their history is
that they had four other brothers residing on
farms in Hunt county, who were also each
over seven feet in height. This family OF
giants, the sons of William Shields, who
emigrated to Texas from Georgia twenty six
years ago, are probably the most remarkable
family physically speaking in the United
States, although they lived comparatively
unknown to the world, outside of Hunt
county, Texas, until discovered during the
present year by travelling circus manager.
Two of the number, James and Jack Shields,
are exactly feet and II inches in height,
their weight being respectively 1856 and 376
pounds They are twins and are one inch tai
lar than Gus Shields.
One of the seven brothers is only Is yeare of
age, yet he measures from the soles of his
feet to the crown of his head 7 feet and 4
inches. This young man is still growing,
Their father lacked an inch of being 7 feet
tall, but their mother was woman of aver
age size, The combined weight of four of
the brothers is 1,010 pounds.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
Helena, Montana, Thursday, January II, 1883.
A Cubic Mile.

Professor Bernstein, an eminent naturalist
in Berlin, Germany, gives the following de-
scription Of one German geograp phical cubic
mile lone mile equals 10,12 yards) to illus
trate the size of our earth, which contains
only 1862 such:
Imagine box one mile each way-long
wide and deep-and let us try to fill it up.
Berlin is handy, we take the city as if it
were toy and throw it into our box. We
60 to Potsdam, pick up all the villages on
the way also, and put all in. The bottom is
not covered yet. We will take Paris, with
all her columns, towers and churches, which
helps little, SO we must take London also.
Vienna must 60 in, too, and, not to disturb
the peace, st. Petersburg follows next All
this stuff lies at the bottom. We begin now
to take up all the cities, towns, villages, forts,
farms, everything that human hands have
built in Europe, and all the ships floating on
the sea. 1t helps nothing. We must 60 to
old and new worlds, throw in the pyramids
of Egypt and the railroads and factories of
America and everything else made by man
in Asia, Africa, Australia and America-lo! !!
our box is not half full yet. We will shake
up the things little to make them even,
and as we are bound to fill the box, let us
see if we cannot do it with the people and
lay them in like herrings. One row will re-
quire 10000, and 1000 rows make one layer
of 100000 O,OO0-just enough for North Ameri
cans. To make them feel more comfortable,
we will put between each layer a bed of
straw and leaves, say thirty feet thick, which
will take al the straw and leaves in the
world. Upon the Americans we will lay
100000 OF Australians and 45,OO0,00O of
Asiatics, another layer. There are about
9OOO0O,OO0 more Asiatics; thus we proceed
until all the rest of mankind are in-1 ,410,-
100000 in about thirty layers. The box is
now about half full, and it would require
about fifteen times that number of people to
fill it. What shall we do? Animals, of
course, are still lift. Take the whole animal
creation, yet it is not full; and yet all this is
only one geographic cubic mile, of which the
earth contains 1862"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
New Devices in War,

Each great European war is marked by
the introduction of something novel In the
way of weapons, projectile, or tactics, and
the next struggle, whenever it takes place,
and whether the parties to it be France and
Germany, or Austria and Russia, is alto
gether likely to present features of unusual
interest to the student of military progress.
The French having constructed series of
formidable frontier fortresses that would take
too much time to reduce by existing meth
DDS, the Germans propose to smash them to
pieces by throwing dynamite shells into
them from ballistas or catapults or similar
engines of classical or medieval origin, while
the Austrians have invented land torpedo
of much promise. During the Dalmatian
insurresction last year two officers and ten
men blocked pass in seventeen minutes by
lying down fifteen of these flying mines, and
sixty men could in twenty-five minutes
establish O line of them a mile in length.
By way OF protecting au exposed pass or one
that has been suddenly seized, or Of render
ing besieger coy about advancing upon a
fortified plnce, the Zubowitz torpedo ought
to prove effective. They viii be especially
formidable to the Austrian prisoners to
whom practical enemy will at once depute
the exciting task of removing them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
Carnival Custom ..

The Carnival at Rome this year was one OF
unwonted brilliancy. The first prize in the
procession was given to the Italian artists,
who represented return of Arab pilgrims
from Mecca. Each costume was study, not
a detail was omitted. Even the serpent
charmer was there with two live snakes
with which he played as if they had been
walking-canes There were also the camels,
lent by Count Telfener, and real Arab music
played to real Arab tunes. The favorite
odalisque lay half reclining in a beautiful
palanquin, carried by four negroes. This
odalisque was represented by the most beau
tiful model in Rome, whose fortune is now
made, as all Rome is talking about her
beauty. The other odahsques being repre-
sented by men. she has no rivalry to fear /;
nor need she fear any, for she is really a
very handsome woman, both in face and
figure She is rather stout, as a perfect
odalisque should be. Ismail Pasha must
have been delighted, as his balcony was not
very far from the jury's stand, he could en-
Joy the sight of all the pilgrims halting in
front of this stand and uttering prayer to
the jury.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
Magnetic the Bed.
[Christian at Work.

CHRISTIAN at WOrk.
A German has occupied many years in
the art of bed-making, or, rather, bed plac-
ing. Baron Beichenbach, the painstak-
ing German, maintains that improperly
placed beds will shorten a mans life. He
says:
If mere magnet exercises an influence on
sensitive persons, the earth's magnetism
must certainly make itself felt on the nervous
life OF a man.
In whatever hemisphere you may be, al
ways sleep with your feet to the equator, and
let your body lie ''true as needle to the
pole.
The Baron says the polar direction of the
body is of the utmost importance for the
proper circulation of the blood, and many
disturbances in the human organisms have
been cured by simply placing the bolster at
a different point of the compass from that it
had before occupied.
Let such as have hitherto been IN the habit
of sleeping with their heads where their
feet ought to be take to heart the example
of the late Dr. Fischweiter, of Magdeburg,
who died recently at the good old age OF 1O4
years.
The most unhealthy position, we are told.
is when the body lies due east and west.
Some observers assure us that to sleep in
such posture is tatamount to committing
suicide, and that diseases are often aggra-
waited by deviations from the proper pos
f11ro
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
A Story of Four Boys.
Atlanta Constitution.


Four boys, all of one family, named Green,
started few years ago selling newspapers.
They made 10 cents piece the first morning
they went to work, and for two winters
thereafter they went barefooted through the
snow and sleet in the freezing dawn, on
their morning rounds. From the very first
they saved a certain percentage of their earn
ings, which they wisely invested in Atlanta
real estate. The oldest of them is now eigh
teen years of age and the youngest twelve.
They have supported an invalid father and
their mother all the time, and now have
property worth considerably over $4,000,
houses from which the rent is $50 month,
and 5000 stock in building and loan assOcia-
tion. They heve educated themselves the
meanwhile, remaining from school this year
in order that they might work harder and
build home for their parents that is to have
front parlor and a bay window in it.
These little fellows have been carriers, news
boys, errand boys and apprentices about the
Constitution Office, and one of them is now
assistant mailing clerk. Their net savings
from their sales and salaries, exclusive of
their rents, have been $40 week for this year.
Next year they can do better and by the time
the oldest of the brothers is ofage they ought
to have comfortable little fortune.
What these boys have done other boys can
do. The whole secret is steadiness sobriety,
industry and economy There are few lessons
more important for boys than that the small
lest amount, no matter how little it may be
will make great fortune if it is only saved
and man will live inside of it and compound
his surplus. It must have been discouraging to
these youngsters when it took them a month
to lay up 81, and it was heroic in them when
they laid this dollar up and went barefooted
over frozen ground rather than use it to buy
shoes with. 1t is easy now, when they are
comfortably clad and housed, and every boy
about them is comfortable, and their savings
amount to twenty times week more
than they were formerly able to save in a
month. They have conquered life almost
before they have fairly entered it, and if they
will only keep cleanly hearts and genial
souls, and broad, hearty impulses, they will
be not only rich, but useful men
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
HIGH LIFE IN NEW YORK.
New York Times

What do you think of the queer lives led
by janitors' families? I know janitor
who has charge of huge building down on
Broadway, who has four little tots of chill
dren, and they don't get down into the street
more than once week or so. Two OF them
were born in the seventh story of an immense
iron building, just under the roof. One of
them to my certain knowledge has never
been down in the street at all. That's fact.
It will be down some day. It was born
dren's play ground is? 1t is the roof, and a
rare, good yard it is, with flowers growing on
it, and everything just like good, big, paved
sides, so there is no danger Of the youngsters
falling off, And there are clothes-lines there,
and tubs standing about, and clothes-pins
lying on the ground-everything so natural
you might easily imagine yourself in some
body's back yard. Those children seldom
see anything of the world down below and
their mother hardly ever does, for she has
her hands full taking care Of. the youngsters
There is nice secluded life for you, with no
danger of annoyance from prying neighbers.
There is something attractive about it, too.
Just think of the janitor at dark shutting up
the whole place and barring the big iron
doors with himself inside. There he is with
his family about him, and all the world
securely locked out. 1t is as good as living
in castle with the bridge drawn up and
the moat full of water. But even when the
other doors are locked the janitors are not
always shut in from the outer world There
is a block of buildings in one of the princi-
pie business centres of the city all about the
same height. Each building has it's janitor,
and each janitor has his family. When the
outer doors are shut and locked and no out
slider can by any possibility make his way
in, the janitors' families begin to visit. The
roofs form their avenues and boulevards,
their grand promenade. There is something
slightly curious about this way Of living,
isn't there; having your neighbor dropping
in through the roof instead Of coming
through the door? It is something like the
way of living Of the old cave-dwellers in the
southwest
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11

The eminent English scientist, Professor
Huxley, made but a short stay in New York,
but his arrival was the cause of converse
ton between one of the city's amateur scien-
lists and matter-of- fact friend. The anna
teur was an enthusiastic admirer of Huxley,
and he spoke so extravagantly about him
that his friend finally became curious and
asked:
who in the thunder is Huxley, any
way?"
You don't mean to say you have not
heard about Professor Huxley, the great
scientist?"
'Yes, do, though. Never heard his name
before What has he done?"
why, man, Huxley made the important
discovery about protoplasm."
About what?"
'Protoplasm."
And what in the dickens is proto-
plasn?"
'Now, look here; you don't mean to sit
there and tell me you don't know what pro-
toplasm is ?"
That's just it. Nary protoplasm."
well, protcplasm is what we call the life
principal"
Anything to do with insurance
"Oh, nonsense! The life principal is ma
ture, the starting point of vital action, so to
speak"
"He discovered that, did hep
Eyes, few years ago, in England"
"And what good is it going to do?"
"Good! A great deal Of good 1t ex-
pands the circle of human knowledge, and
is valuable in bearing out the theory OF
evolution. 1t is noble contribution to
science, and it has made Huxley one of the
few immortal names that were not born to
die"
$50 Huxley knows all about the life prin-
cipal, does he?"
Eyes, all about it."
"And the starting point of vital ac-
tion?'
Exactly"
"Well, see here, now can he take some of
that protoplasm and 60 and make man, or a
horse, or an elephant with it ?"
"Oh, no he couldn't"
"Can he take it and make anything at all
ofit-even gnat or fiy?"
81 think not"
"Well, then, he may just go to thunder
with his protoplasm; don't think it is
worth ten cents pound, anyhow. Pears to
me these scientific fellows put on big lot OF
airs about very little. Protoplasm-eh
Shouldn't wonder if Huxley came over
here to get up company to work it. Did
you say the mine was in England?"
"It is almost needless to say that the
scientist gave up his friend in despair
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-11
Saved His Character.
IROStOn Journal.

Boston journal.
A horse car was proceeding up Shawmutt
avenue on Saturday afternoon, and among
its freight of precious human lives it bore
six young men, all irreproachably dressed,
and, to their own minds at least, of engag-
ing personal appearance. Bunched up in
corner also was man whose linen and COM
plexion gave color to the opinion that he
was engaged in the plastering trade, and
whose features indicated that he was of
Hibernian extraction. The car was crowded
and bumped along slowly, and presently
there entered young woman of consider
able charm of features and looked about for
a seat. Instantly the plasterer and the six
elaborately young men got up and
in one breath rendered her the choice Of
seven separate and distinct seats. She ac-
cepted that which was offered by one of the
gilded youths, whereupon the plasterer and
the five remaining young men sat down
again. Presently colOred woman with
big bundle came in and hung on to strap,
spective positions as if cemented thereto.
and down to see that nobody else arose, got
up and said:
"Plaze to take this safe, mum. l offered
IL the young lady over yander Wnen She goC
in, but she took that one O. thin byes along
side give to her. So you take this, for
begorra if should kape it from yez afther
offering it to the other lady the folks aboord
the car moight think l was a masher, and
I've got character to sustain"
And thus speaking he took his old clothes
and kit of tools that he fished up from
under the seat to the front platform, and all
the youths looked out at him and gazed at
one another and knew not what to say, and
there was silence in that car for the space Of
a block Ond half