The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-12-26


A great many people say they write
poetry 10 kill time. 1t makes the suffer
ing public wish they would let time live.
Mr. Cross has made little progress with
the biography Of his dead wife, George
Eliot having been greatly interrupted by
illness.
The most miserable creature on earth Is
the college graduate, about SIX months
after he took his degree and started ont
to astonish the country.
Five editions of Bosworth Smiths
Life OF Lord Lawrence" have already
appeared, and a sixth-a popular edition
IN one volume-is on the way to publica-
ton.
Twice il her life a Maine woman has
been struck by lightning and she Is alive
yet. Her husband was once struck with a
poker, and monument marks his place
Of soiourn.
The long continued use of the telephone
produces an abnormal enlargement OF the
ear. If this is so, the eyolutionist Of the
next century may conclude that the jack
ass Is the missing link.
A COW at Southfeld, L. l., was so
scared by fire engine pumping water
NAAhA E4AE las HA4AAt Nr4NtLA 4N AAAA4h L lbbh
bly concluded that the competition was
too great and she might as well quit.
What's your nameg" asked one four
year-old miss of another. Il do declare, -
replied the second little girl, you are as
inquisitiyc as grown people. They al
ways ask my name and where / got my
new boots, and all such tings, until l am
Hs'amed of EN-"
Mother" said little four-year old,
what season Of the year was it when
Adam and Eve We're in the garden of
Eden7n Il don't know, my dear, unless
it was summer-a perpetual summer"
oh. no. mamma. 1t must have been IN
the fall, for, You know, apples We're
ripe.
The well known Partisan editor. VI.
Moigno, has written paper on the syn
thesis Of the heavens and the earth. In
this he makes the deduction that every
thing originated from ether, which first
generated hydrogen. To an impulsation
Of ether he attributes the existence
throughout the universe of the action of
grayitation.
Microscopes have been tried with the
Swan incandescent lamp instead of the
ordinary oil one, and with marked sue
cess. 4 small lamp Of two or three can
dles IN power Is rigidly attached 10 the
microscope, and then the current Is sent
through at viii, giving pure light with
out any of the drawbacks of great heat,
smell. unsteadiness of any kind, or any
necessity for cleaning.
EUaioH Nedicdle states that the attempts
at acclimation of the tea tree in the Loire
Inferieure are getting on very well. Crafts
on camellias have borne very well IN the
open air at temperature below freezing.
In Sicily, near Messina, 12Oplants, planted
three years ago, are very vigorous, and
have produced abundance of leaves and
seeds. 1t remains,to be seen whether the
aroma Of the leaf will be preserved.
Not long since family moved into
house on Austin Avenue. After week
or so a friend of the family called on
them. and asked how he liked the locali-
".
Pretty we'll"
Have you called on any of the neigh
bors, yeti"
No, but l am going to if there is any
more of my firewood missing"
Cracked earthenware should never be
used for domestic purposes. 1t is safe
rule in good housekeeping TO break any
fractured stoneware TO pieces and render
them quite untitled for any employment
as utensils, In a paper read before the
Academy of Sciences, Paris, NJ. L. Pey
russon demonstrated very clearly how the
germs of cholera,typhoid fever, and similar
diseases may be preserved and commitment
ed by even the slightest crack or fissure
which may be caused by very trifing ac
cidents TO crockery and glass.
Prof. Bauschinger has lately tested
some iron taken from a chain bridge built
in 1879. and found that after fifty years of
service It's strength and elasticity had not
altered perceptibly from what they were
reported to be at the time they We're put
into service. The fact that age has little
effect on the quality of iron, is likewise
verified by the result Of tests made by
Prof Thurston of pieces of wire cable of
the historic Paramount suspension bridge
at Philadelphia, lately taken down after
forty years of service The tested pieces
were found 10 have tenacity, elasticity
and ductility fully equal to the best wire
Of the same size found in the market to
day.
NIr. Gladstone has held the office of
Premier for longer period than II has
been held by any statesman except one in
the course of Queen Nictoria's reign. The
exception was Lord Palmerston. who was
Prime Minister for nine years and three
months Next after Mr.. Gladstone comes
Lord Beaconsfeld, who was Premier six
wears and ten months. After him comes
Lord Melbourne, whose length of office
was one month less then that Of Lord
Beaconfield. Earl Russell is the next in
order, his Premiership lasting six years
and two months; and next comes Sir
Robert Peel. who was Premier for four
wears and ten months. The other states
men who held the reins of government
under the present sovereign We're the late
Earl of Derby. whose term of office lasted
three years and six months, and the Earl
Of Aberdeen, who served two years and
two months.
Now John listen to me. for / am older
than You. or / couldn't be your mother.
Never do YOU marry young woman.
John. before You have contived to hap
pen at the house where she lives. at least
four or five times before breakfast. You
should know how late she lies in bed in
the morning. You should know whether
her complexion Is the same in the morn
iny that il Is IN the evening, or whether
the morning wash and the towel have rob
bed her of her evening bloom. You should
take care to surprise her, so that you may
see her in her morning dress, and observe
how her hair looks when she is not expect
iny YOU. If possible, you should be where
Won could hear her morning conversation
between her and her mother II she is
ill-natured and snappish to her mother, 50
She viii be to you, depend on it But il
YOU find her up and dressed neatly in the
morning. with the same countenance, the
same neatly combed hair, the same ready
and pleasant answers to her mother.
which characterize her appearance and
department in the evening, and particu
larry if she Is lending hand to get the
breakfast ready in good season, she is a
prize. John, and the sooner you secure
her to yourself the better.