The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-02-21

Ibe fTlnce oi Wales is TO visit America.
A man was murdered at Leadville, Colorado
for blasphemy.
During the last few years the habit Of opium
eating has been making terrible progress in
z Denmark.
Frederick Martin, formerly Carlysle's aInan-
nensis and proprietor OF the "Statesman's Year
Book, is dead.
Germany is to give S25, 900 for scientific ex-
E plcrations in Africa and other countries during
fhe financial year 1881.
Pleasure may be aptly compared to many
" great books, which increase in real value in
DE proportion they are abridged.
Claus Spreckels says that the object of his
visit East is to ascertain the advisability of
establishing a sugar refinery in Baltimore
rhere he has been led to believe there is
EOOd opportunity for investment
Il is understood that the Secretary of the
kayy has decided to close four Of the yards on
VI pc 5lst Of March, II is settled that the Wash
ipgton and Mare Island yards and one north
p south Of the Potomac will not he closed.
Id The London Fire Brigade has but fifty steam
Engines and 500 fremen. The estimated value
" ~ the property to be protected is S6,OOO.OO
90o, and Londoners pay an insurance premium
~ one hundred and twentieth part Of one per
Bent
In paper read by DR.. C. W. Siemeus before
khe English Royal Society lately -ibA s,.,-,aad
,ras taken that all the heat and energy sent
f. srom the sun find their way back to the great
tolar center, which thus suffers no diminution
NJ It's forces.
He drew bis breath with gaspiug sob, with
y quivering voice he sang; hut his voice leaked
put and could not drown the accompauist's
rlamorous bang. He lost his pitch on the mid
.lle A, he faltered Oh lower D, and foundered
et length, like battered wreck, adrift on the
s wild, high c.
Nj Hon. Samuel J. Tildeu intends to donate 10
Eho city OF New York the magnificent mansion
lust completed in Gramercy Park, together
.Fith all its rich treasures Of rare books and
works OF art The library contains the largest
bnd most valuable private collection of books
in New York, if not in the country.
December 9th was the fourth anniversary Of
ihe Gotha crematory. That date saw the one
hundreith cremation There were l6 crema-
lions the first year, IL the second, 81 the third
And 81 during the fourth; IS were males, 66
" Protestants, IS Roman Catholics and Jews
of various nationalities, ) being Americans.
M A debtor who was sued by his creditor ac-
M knowledged that he bad borrowed the money
WI but declared that the plaintiff knew at the
. time that It was a Kathleen Nayoumeen loan
& Kathleen Mavoumeen loan" repeated the
"A Court, with puzzled lock. That's it, Judge,
NJ one OF the it may be for years, and it may be
forever sort"
4 competitive trial was had recently be-
tween the Jurgensen and Gramme dynamo
machines under the auspices Of the Danish
government. II is reported that the Jurgen-
sen machine, on an average of four days work
ing gave IS per cent. more light, while the
Cramme required about ninety times as much
wire as the other
Professor Kaposi OF Vienna has introduced
continuous baths for skin affections The pa
iieni is placed in them on a mechanical bed,
and remains there for fifty or one hundred
days, not only taking his meals, but sleeping
nghile thus immersed in water. The PrQgrsS
Ae,iical pronounces them successful, and rec
ommends their introduction into the Paris hos
pitals.
M Frankfort-on-the-Main is probably the rich
est city OF IFS size in the world. Although
lhero arc good many poor people in the town
Dc citizens, as whole, are far better off than
De inhabitants of any other city, while if the
realth were equally divided, every person
rould have over 81 900 apiece. There are 100
ranldorters worth from $500, 900 TO 81 400
poo each, aud 25O worth E50,O and upward
While the United States produces about 81,
te0 barrels of crude oil daily, its daily con-
sumption is about IS 900 barrels, and the re-
:hainder is exported or goes into stock. Can
Ada is said 10 produce about 200 barrels o.
trude oil per day, and 10 consume about :, ,00C
leaving 500 daily to be imported. The Ptfr0-
+ st-H Aye estimates that the Dominion will re-
1uire about ,Oe0, 900 barrels Of oil from the
M United States during 1883.
M The annual consumption CT walch-face srys.
'@ tails is placed by the Rerus Gir0s0MefrigHs Al
loo 600 900. This total, however, includes
* the CRYSTALS required for Toy watches, lockets
# compasses. etc. The annual production o.
Nj watches is placed at 2,5O0,O 200, and the stocL
manufactured during fifty years at 10000, 900
Fl To this is to be added 5O,0O0,OOo cold watch
ri cs.r OF the number in use it is believed thai
M $1,000, 900 require new crystal face once :
VI year. This, with stocks kept on hand, call fol
the annual supply named above.
One of the most remarkable phenomena con
nected with dreams is the shoriness of tim'
needed for their oonsummatioD. Lord Broug.
# ham says that, in debating, man may fre-
81 uucntiv fall asleep after uttering few words
* and be awakened by the amanuensis repeating
.he last word 10 show he has written th'
whole; but though five or six seconds onll
have elapsed between the delivery Of the sen
tence and its transfer to paper, the sleePe
may have passed through dream extendin!
through half lifetime. Lord Holland an,
Mr.. Babt'age both confirm this theory. Th'
one was listening to a friend reading aloud
and slept from the beginning of one sentenc'
70 the latter part Of the sentence iuimediatel,
succeeding yet, during this time he had !
dream, the particulars Of which would hav
taken more than quarter Of an hour to write
Ar. Babbage dreamt succession OF events
and woke in time to hear the concluding word
Of friends answer to a question he had jus
put him. One man was liable to a feeling 0
sufioc4tiOn, accompanied by dream OF
skeleton grasping bis throat whenever b
slept in lying posture, and had an attendan
to wake him The moment he sank down. Bn
though awakened the moment he began &
sink, that time snifcei for a long strnggi
with the skeleton. Another man dreamt thA
he crossed the Atlantic, spent n fortnight i