The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-11-21
Miscellaneous.

Davidson county, Tennessee, has spent SlOO
600 quarantining against smallpox.
There is no arena in which vanity display.
itself under such a variety Of forms as in con-
versation.
We no longer attribute tine untimely dealt
of infants to the sin Of Adam, but to bad
nursing and ignorance.
Charles Dudley Warner will soon publish a
record of his recent travels in Europe un-
der the title "a Roundabout Journey"
Dr. Brown-Sequard has discovered new
anHsthetic which destroys sensibiliiy for and
entire day or more, but not consciousness OF
physical activity.
Every year there are more books and pub
LEGATIONS relating to art issued IN the English
language than in any other The German
comes next, and the French third.
DR.. Siemens calculates that the present an
nual yield Of all the coal mines of the earth
would suffice TO keep up the fire Of the sun,
at its present intensity Of light and heat, for
about the forty-millionth part Of a second.
Photographs, by process invented by N
Muybridge; at Paris, can now be taken in the
hundredth part oi a second. He had taken six
photographs during the leap Of q clown. The
figures are projected on a screen, and the clown
is exhibited as in motion, with all the changes
Of position.
Portland cement has for its principal con-
stituent and most active agent in its setting,
calcic silicate. This, by contact with water
produces, among other compounds, a sub
stance the composition of which crystaliizes
hexagonal plates and plays a chief part in the
hardening Of the cement.
A theatrical manager in Paris provides a
room for newspaper men in which to write
their criticisms, and a messenger to carry
their copy 10 the newspaper Offices; but the
messenger mas orders to read the copy and
"lose" the manuscript if it contains an un-
favorable notice Of his show"
The engineer of the gas-burning locomotive,
which was tried lately in New Haven, says
that be has at times put out the fire on the
trips with loaded cars going up grade, let her
run for some time on the strength Of the ac-
cumulated steam, and then relit the jets in
time TO keep the engine working
Plus TX. 6 statue is now in the church of
Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome. 1t was un-
covered on st. Peters day. II is placed un-
der the chief altar. Plus TX is represented
on his knees, praying The statue cost so,
600 francs, and was paid for by the cardinals.
1t is said TO be perfect likeness.
"Why do young men remain single?" asks
a newspaper writer. An old philosopher once
observed that if more young men were to marry,
there would be fewer old bachelors in the land,
and the more we reflect on the subject the
more it strikes US that the old philosopher hit
the bulls eye. Young men remain single be-
cause they don't marry.
In the children's carnival in Saratoga, one
little girl was dressed to represent a gold
mine and she looked like forty pound nugget.
Her shoes were gilded, her stockings were Of
gold-colored silk, her pantalettes were bro
dered with bullion fringe, and her gown was
a mass Of gilded silk punched up so that it
looked like a rough, irregular chunk of gold.
Jack" said an affeclionate mother of
Stapleson, the othor morning, "you must come
home earlier nights Do you suppose Esmer-
aida likes to have you stay SO late?" I'm
tell you how it was" replied Jack. You see
she was sitting % my hat, and l felt delicate
about mentioning the fact,' Very well, I'll
give you bit of advice. The next time don't
hold your hat in your lap"
In forecasting weather, M. Rolo Russell
points out that next to frequent Ieadiugs Of the
barometer aud thermometer locally, and a
knowledge Of the distribution OF atmospheric
pressure over as wide an area as may be, OBJ
seryatiou of the character of the clouds, espe-
clally of the cirrus variety, is of the greatest
utility. Observation Of cirrus can plainly be
made use of in system of telegraphc weather
forecasts.
They show the place in the Washington
Capitol rotundo where Brumidi the painter,
fell from the scaffolding while frescoing the
ceiling and killed himself. In fact, Brumidi
died in his bed after, instead OF before, finish
ing his terrible frescoes, but the majority Of
the people don't know this, and after looking
at the fresooes, it's q consolation to them to
feel that the barbarian who executed them got
his neck broke.
The steepest railroad gradient in the world
is said to he that of line from Montreux to
Gilno, a distance of 2, 900 feet, just finished by
Nicholas Riggenbach, the Swiss engineer who
constructed the Rigi railway. On August 10
NJ Riggcnbach made the descent with sin
gle car without the cable, in order TO demon
strate the efficiency of his brakes, and stop
ped the car three times on the way. He is
constructing a similar line mp the Neigherries
for the Madras Government
''Take that pair of shoes from under your
coat, demanded merchant Of an old negro,
"or I'll have you arrested 'Who's got
pair of shoes un'er his coat?" you have /;
saw you when you picked them up. SIS
desc de shoes?" producing them. Yes; hand
them here" ''Why didn't yer tell me dey was
de shoes, stead oh geitin' me fused roun'
heah Holler at a man case he doan' M 'ers-
tan yer9 Wust town eber seed. White folks
tramps on de niggsrs like dey was foot-log." :"
Boston claims to be the second banking
city in the Union, oUtrankiDg Chicago and
Philadelphia. It has ffty-three national
banks, with combined capital of $50, $50 900
Il ,,f
S3O,43l, ,ls2. The city has also eightytwo
banking establishments, having capital OF
81 .93s, 200 and four State banks, with capi-
tai of 81 $50 900 and fourteen savings banks,
deposits amounting to S6i,l31,l46.
A fond and proud parent is showing work
of art by his daughter to the delighted com
pauy. "This crayon drawing" he says,
Represents the interior of railroad tunnel,
through which you viii perceive train
passing slowly" Exquisite Very fine, in-
deed says one of the company; "but what
makes you say the train IS passing through it
slowly ? Because, sir, says the father,
''if 1t had been running rapidly it would have
been out of the tunnel long ago; don't you
seeS"
In a paper in the Bulletin Of the Paris An
ihropological Society, Mons. e. Lagnelu has
considered the relations Of deaths and births
among Catholics, Protestants and Jews. He
finds the births to be in greatest proportion
among the Catholics but the death rate is SO
large among their children that they increase
in population but slowly. With Protestanis the
births are fewer, infantile mortality is lower,
and increase is often much greater. The
Jews have fewer births than either Of the
other classes, but their death-Tate is SO low
for all ages that they increase in number more
> rapidly than either Catholics or Protesiants.
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There is French legend connected with the
preDaration called VinaigTi a quart'e ToieloS
During the plague at Marseilles baud Of rob
bers piundeTed the dying and the dead With
out injury to themselves. They were lmprls-
oned, tried and condemned to die, but were
hardened on condition Of disclosing the secret
whereby they could ransack houses infected
with The terrible scourge. They gave the fol-
Lowing recipe, which makes delicious and
refreshing wash for the sick room: Take Of
rosemary, wormwood. lavender rue, sage and
rint. q iargs handful of each. Place in stone
lar and tura over it one gallon OF strong cider
rios,lx ot.d keen near the fire