The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21

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men in New York city eleven were or had been
direct liquor sellers. - This is q very singular
statement to be made in relation to the antece-
dents of so many officials of such a great city as
New York. 1t would be supposed from this
evidence that liquor selling was not there con-
sidered with disfavor, but on the contrary,
afforded advantages for preferment.
Having occasion, last Saturday night to look
into a room occupied by some Chinese, and it
seeming to US that it looked rather crowded, we
counted the number slowed away there and
found 1t to be forty-three. The room itself was
twelve feet long, twelve feet wide, and ten feet
high. There were q lot of hunks built up around
the room, shutting up the two windows with
which 1t was provided, leaving a sing c door for
light and air. The cubical contents of such a
room would be 1440 cubic feet, supposing it to
be entirely empty of furniture. The hunks took
up some of that room, and it is fair to estimate
that there was but 400 cubic feet of air space
in the apartment. The best authorities state
that a human being consumes an average of $40
cnbic feet OF air every twenty-four hours. Allow
ing that these forty-three men were slowed away
for eight hours only in that room. they ought 10
have at least $500 cubic feet of pure air to
breathe. This amount Is almost four times the
capacity of the room, and as the door is probably
closed during those eight hours 1t seems impos-
sible that the atmosphere should support life
after the first two hours. The amount of carbon
anhydrate thrown off and exhaled during the
same time by these forty-three persons would lie
10 CUBIC ISSt. mis- gas Is an QnQQ2lluct poison.
and being heavier than common air, would, if
undisturbed, form a layer IL the uuoccupied
floor of the room over two feet deep. A dog ex-
posed to this deleterious influence of this gas
would be asphyiXiated in a very short time. The
question is, how do these people manage to live
in this atmosphere to which, be it understood,
they voluntarily subject themselves
The Neo Bedford Mercury of the 7th March,
commenting upon leprosy, says that according
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may be communicated very easily by the touch
or by the use of any article that has been
handled by one of the afflicted" and makes
many other equally false and pernicuons state
ments, based upon the Misrepresentation of our
local contemporary. This a very forcible illus
tration of what we have from time to time shown
would be the result of the deliberately exagger-
ated accounts which have been drawn of the
disease by a malicious and inconsiderate politi-
cal opposition. Those abroad, who have no
means of understanding the gross nature of the
libel against the country as it has been per-
petrated by an INSCRIPTIONS press, devoted a
rule or ruin policy, naturally conclude that our
condition III respect to this disease is a thousand
times worse than anyone here could imagine it
to be by paying the least attention to the facts.
So the alarm created by our contemporary,
although it amounts to nothing here, goes
abroad and becomes an insiduous foe to truth
and the repute of the country. And it NAV not
be a matter of surprise if trade or capital. now
naturally flowing towards our shores, becomes
more or less frightened and deferred fro1. Ven
turing into the country until these bad effects
of ntempOrar malice can lie combatted by n
dissemination of truthful Impressions.
The California Architect and Buildin0
NeaOs for March contained an article taken from
The Iin1ber Trade Journal ON the subject of
painting the interior woodwork of houses, that
contains some valuable hints. After comment
ing upon the stupidity of "grainers' endeavoring
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and in initiating a line of sap wood on perfectly
sound heart wood, the writer says
How often is it to be found in these days,
when public taste is centered upon what is
vaguely termed aesthetic decoration, that labor
and material are expended upon the decoration
of the woodwork of a room which if it had in
the first instance been expended upon the wood
itself, would have secured good and really beau
tiful material"
We have here an abundance of beautiful koa,
to say nothing of other fine woods, and we think
that a correct taste would be better satisfied with
an interior showing the natural grain and color
of various woods artistically combined than in
seeing rooms "grained in imitation of other
woods, that, after all, are not one whit hand
somer than those easily attainable here.
1.-The drawing-room may be rendered gay,
the library somber, the lining room comfortable,
the smoking and billiard rooms coy or airy
looking as desired, the boudoir may be made
dlu SleSdIl. All lntSG CueClS may ~
produced by the suitable employment of wood,
the extent of the effect can only be said to
be limitod by the ability of the designer. And
these excellent opportunities are often COM
pletely neglected, or are at the best only made
partial and feeble use of. For the greater part the
house painter is allowed 10 treat the woodwork
much as he pleases. 1t must be admitted that
Of late years matters in this respect have under
gone considerable modification, but the change
has been in a way of a negative character only. /
DESIGN in reSnect to form. has aOaiu come TO
the fore but whilst the painters services have
been partially dispensed with, no substitute for
his work has been introduced. And a worthy
is ready at hand. Woods of different
ire beautiful ard all the shades harmonious, in
the attention of the designer
The Boston Manufacturers Gazette of March
10 contains an illustrated leading article on what
5 called the q Electric Light Industry The
chandeliers show the superior beauty of
hose designs which can be adapted to
he electric light. Edison has completed
Ill the details of his mastery invention
perfection. The generation Of electricity, the
,onduction of currents through the wires with
1ut danger from fire, and finally the production
If n strong steady light in a safe and beautiful
are described with graphic enthu-
'iasm by the writer, and we concur in the
opinion expressed, that this favorite light can
Dc put to no end of uses, with an effect so
pleasing in the extIeme that lone instinctively
kinks of Aladdin and his lamp > when in an
apartment which the electric light, as Mr..
edison has perfected it, illumines. The de-
'igns for globes, as they are manufactured by
he Edison Company, comprise hanging
bouquets and punches of flowers per-
ectly counterfeited in hammered and beaten
'rass. in which the graceful bulbs of light are
enclosed in vari-colored cut-glass lowers"
in view Of the fact that this light is being
generally in the chief cities of the
United States, and seems to promise to super
EIDE gas and oil in the near future, it appears
o us that the people of Honolulu would do well
o consider whether or not it would not be ad-
-isable to undertake the introduction Of the
Edison electric light and apparatus for general
ise in Illuminating the residences, business
places and streets of this city. There seems to
,e no reason why the electric light could not be
lsed here as advantageOusly as in America or
lsewhere All our carbon oil has TO be imported.
nd hence 1t is necessarily somewha higher than
t is in United States, where it is produced, and
where the electric light is being introduced with