The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-06-09
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1t is spring time with the frog when the
snail boy Is AROUND with a stone.
A noted physician says many persons,
simply by deep aud RAPID exhalatr ms OF
pure Dir, can become intoxicated on oxygeu
as if they had taken a dr. 'ugit of nlcohoiic
stimnlants Here IS a po.nt for the man
who has BEEN walking rapidly home from
the club in the night air.
= Finnish meteorologiSt, Prof. LemStiom,
announces that he has made a remarkable
experiment, in which he placed on the apex
of ii hill a galvanic battery with conductors
covering an area of about 10000 square
feet. The cone became surrounded by a
halo which family but perfectly yielded the
spectrum OF the aurora, aud the expert
menter regards this result with some SUISSE
quent ONES, as direct proof of the electrical
nature of the mysterious light which so
often dances In no. thern skies.
Mons. Samson has investigated the excl
tant property of oats, and finds it to be due
to a nitrogenIZed substance which he names
"avenine.' This principle exists. in vary
ing prop .rtion, in all o Is. but. as a rule, 1t
is contained in greater quantity by the dark
cnlored than by the white v rIeties. Crush
ing or grinding the grain weakens consider
ably its excitant action upon horses. prob
ably by altering the exciting substance. No
e~xcitant action is sure to be produced by
ats containing less than nine-teenthS of ono
per cent of avenine, but with a greater pro.
PARTON of the hitter the effect is certain.
1t is reported that the It,liin exploring
party Iateiy returned from the South Paci-
fc found many human bones Of great size in
Patagonia. indie ting the former existence
of a race of giants in that country.
At a point between f'rty three and fifty
ftthoms beneath the surface of the sea.
Secchi, Pourt les and Bolrguer have found
that all traces Of light ce Sc, the most deli
cate chemical tests remaining unaffected
when sunk lower in the W ter. Prof. F.
Fuchs finds in this liant OF light penetra-
ton a division line which separates all
became life into two great cl sses, one OF
which seeks the light, while the other
remains in a region of total d rkness. The
fauna # light InhabltS the shallow W.ter
near coasts, and is not abundant at u
greater depth than thirty fathoms; while
tbs species of darkness live in the deep sea,
and are never found much nearer the sur
face than fifty fdthoms during d ylight
although some Of them rise to the surface at
night,
A small. hydrogen g's balloon, with a
capacity Of about two gallons, WIS liberated
at Bercy and nude its way to Grandma, in
Poland, having travelled more tn IN 0
miles. This is the l0lgest air journey on
record for so small an object.
At Sebastopol a new Government dock
has Just ben comm-nCed. 1t will take the
pl..ce of the one which was destroyed dur
ing the famous siege by the allied armies
more than twenty-five years ago. 1t will
require three years 10 complete II and the
estImated cost is S20,OOO 600.
The shape of the new British man-of-gar
Mars is so peculiar that her keel cannot be
laid in any of the usual building-slips, and
the vessel must be constructed IN one Of the
docks. Great care IS taken TO prevent
string rs having any opportunity OF mixing
any examination of the model and draw
ings.
IN many parts Of Spain farming opera
tons have made little or no progress siuce
the expulsion Of the Moors. The same sort
of pow is used now as then. oxen tread out
The corn after the ancient Oriental fashion,
and women separate the chat from the
corn by tossi ~ the grain up in the air dur
Ing a breeze of wind.
The staining of bricks red IS effected by
melting one ounce of glue in a ga lon of
water, then adding a piece Of alum IS large
as an egg, one half pound OF Venetian
red and on pound Of Spanish brown red
ness o. d ,rkness Is increased by using more
red or brown. For c]JIoriug black, heat the
bricks and dip in fluid ssphaitum OF in 4
hot mixture Of Iinseed oil and asphalt.
Tuckerman Nothing q%uickens the per-
ceptions like genuine love. From the hum
blest Professional attachment 10 the most
( chivalric devotion, what k%eenness Of obser-
yation is born under the influence of thai
. ceiling which drives away the obscurln@
/ clouds IF se!hshness, as tive sun consumes
the vapor Of the morning..
F. ". Robertson l AN more and more
sure bv experience. thtt the reason far the
observance OF the 5 bbath lies deep in the
/ everlasting necessities of mans nature. and
rs long as man is man the blessedness OF
keeping it not as a day of rest only. but as
r day Of spiritual rest. will never be annull-
ed.
It took young Parzonby all aback when,
at the thenter the other evening, he whls-
pered to his girl that he guessed he wonld
step out Il moment to take the air, md she
quickly responded 1t is very oppressive,
George I'll go out with you"