The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-03-07

Miscellaneous.
turn IN the bed-the first quarrel after
Y .narTiase.
w The first book read and tie last book laid
Il bsido by every child, is The conduct Of It's pa
rsuts.
Gratitude is o word you that you viii find in
DC dictionaries, but you viii not find much Of
Ia anywhere else.
The inquest ai Milwaukee on the Newhall
" House disaster has led to severe criticism If
N The Fire Department.
An endeavor to establish rule for the dis
missal Of all lady teachers intending marriage
has jusi failed in the Chicago Board OF Edu-
cation.
It is always well to accept the inevitable
with equanimiiy. The old pT0verb runs:
:'Sinoe my house must be burned. will warn
myself AZ H.
1t takes of the edge Of enjoyment OF loves
Young dream when you learn from your Jewel
CT hat Miss 1. has been in 10 learn the value
Of the last ring you gave her.
In thirty Of the Loa5on Board schools there
are penny banks connected with the p0si-ufice
and about = 900 was deposited last year by
more than $500 thrifty pupils,
The King Of Portugal was So pleased with
II The American telephone, that one was bought
for the palace, and bis Ministers, al least OF
one occasion, were called up az night tc crafty
BIS Majesir's desire 70 talk with them 1t 3
distance.
The worst cut up man Of the hour, according
NJ 10 Cleveland paper, is that western reporter
4 who, IL describing the appearing Of the belle
Of the town IN a local picnic, intended to say
& that she looked az fat, but, Of course, the
W types had to get it all feet
John e, Whittier recently received from a
| Chicago lady, two hundred engraved visiting
NJ cards with . request to write his illustrious
IL pane on each Of them, rs the writer was TO
Eivc reception 70 her friends and desired to
present them with some memeut0 Jf the
svelt
# President Eliot, Of Harvard, says that .'the
decline Of the ministry il q recognized fact Of
Il cleTgymeu made oue-thir5 Of an tLe educated
people, and welded an influence proportion
ately great. To-day all but one IN nineteen Of
the graduates Of Harvard, and all but one
N thirteen Of the graduates Of Yale, avoid the
ministry.
A humane man grabbed a club, Jumped in
and killed a goat that was chasing man who
carried q red handkerchief in his cuat-tail
pocket down the street, and the man came back
and asked him why be did 1t. 'To save you, ''
replied the humane man Save me he hang
ed cried the other I'D Just bought that
goat, and was ooaxing him home"
Mike: "It's tle Irish that does all the IN
Whiting in these days, sure" Jonathan. Irish
he darned; the Irish don't invent anything to
speak q; il's the Americans that invent every
thing" Nike. Thin perhaps yez can tell ne
why the lrisLmaus S name, Pat. is always ueIi
70 rbe date on all the new invintions Divil Of
N American name can ye find On wan, 81 all
az all,'
Henry Erskine, pleading before Lord Thur
lew, had % speak of a certain curator, and
gave the Scotch pronunciation Of the word
with the accent on tie first syllable. ''Pard0T
me sir," said Thurlow, eve pronounce the
word cu-ra-tor IN English, following the anal
ugy Of the Latin language, in which the penul-
innate syllable is long" - thank YOU, my
Lord, replied Erskiue, "aud bow at once K
the authority Of > Senator 50 learned and
an o-ra-toT 50 eloquent as your Lordship.'
An old traveller has been formulating hi.
observations, and finds national characteristics,
among beer drinkers, which are very impor.
tani II true. BE says that II a fy drops int,
. glass Of beer be can tell the nationality O
the drinker by his subsequent conduct. Al
American will Joke about Il and order fresl
glass; a Spaniard viii pay for the beer, bu
quietly move CT without touching II. French
man viii pay and 20, but will loudly sputier
an Euglishman viii empty the mug and orde
another; . German will carefully fish out iht
fly and swallow the beer; Russian viii swal,
low both the fly and the beer; Chinaman vii
rescue the fly, eat it, and pour the beer UDde
The table. Il is now important to ascertain th
views OF the fly.
When Miss Frances Power Cobb called On
distinguished scientific man to enlist hin
against the vivisection Of animals. be locke,
at her bonnet, her muff and ivory-handled um
brells, and said: MADAM, charity begins q
home; when you have given up wearing Ostricl
feathers, which are plucked from the livin.
bird, causing the most exquisite pain, and bird
Of paradise, which, IN order to enhance thei
beauty and lusfre, are skinned alive-whe
you have sbjured the use Of ivory, because yo
know that the iusks are cut ont Of the dyin
elephants jaw-ihen, and then only, come an
upbraid ne with the cruelty OF my operations
Tho difference between rs is, madam. tina;
iufict pain in the pursuit Of knowledge an
for The ultimate benefit Of ny fellow-creaiure.
yen cause cruelty TO be inflicted merely 10
your personal adorumeui,n
Few people realise what wouderfully del
icaie structure the human car really Is Tbs
which We ordinarily designate so Is only ID
mere outer porch Of q series Of winding pas
saees. which, Ike the lcbbies Of q great build
ing, lead from the 0u;er air into the inne
chambers. Certain Of these Passages ara fu
Of liquid, and taeir membranes are stre,che
like parchment curtains across tie corridor
at different places, and can be thrown into Vi
bration, OF made to trenble as the head Of
drum OF The surface Of tambourine does whe
struck with stick or the frgeTs. Betwee
Two Of these parchment-lize curtains chai
Of very small bones extends, which serves {
tighten CT relax these membranes, and 10 CON
ruuuicAte vibrations to them. In the innermo.
place Of all, rows Of fine thread, called nerve
stretch like tie strings Il . piano from the Ia
point 10 which the iTemblings and thrilling
reach and pass inward TO the brain. II ihes
nerves are destroyed the power of hearing 4
certainly departs Is the power 70 give OF
sends is lost hy piano CT violin when It
strings are broken
Columbus was the son Of weaver and
weaver himself; Claude Lorraine was brougi
Up pastry cook; NolieTe, The great Frenc
comic winter, was the son Of tapestry max
CT; CervsnIes served As q Common soldie
Homer was beggar Hesiod was the son Of
small farmer; Demusihenes OF q cutler. Terenc
the Latin comic writer was a slave: OLIVE
Cromwell was the son Ct brewer. Howars
the philznthropist, WAS an apprentice to a rro
Ger. Benjamin Franklin, the son of |. tsllo,
chandler; Or. Bishop, Of Worcester, sou Of
linen draper; De Fee, the great Engiish polit
icAl winter. was the the son Of : butehe
Whiteheld was the son Of an i1nkeepsr
Gloucester; Cardinal Wolsey, the son os
butcher; Ferguson was ashepherd Virgil vi
the son Of porter; Shakespeare OF . wot
dealer; Horace, Of shopkeeper; Lncian ST.
tioosr, Hssarth was an apprentice TO an eI
g-Ayer, Dean Tucker was the son Of sma
farmer, and came to Oxford On foot; Bishc
Bridszux worked IN the kitchen AZ Exeter CO