The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-12-17

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-, mo at home" ''Now, Robbie, do you
INV where the little boys 20 when they play
INT from Sunday SCHOOL," Yes, rna'am."
siybere?" "They go fishinT' exclaimed the
boy.
T,s musical composition known as the ora
70 -ets its name from St. Peter Neri. BE,
5,y9ut priest, in the full tide of the Renais
NC ueriod, with the aim Of attracting young
,,,,rIe and keeping them out Of mischief, more
esnscially on Sunday, gave at his oratory per-
formances Of original sacred music, TO which
be rave the name of oratorios Many Of these
e,riy oratorios still exist
The thimble was formerly called 'thumble;"
from thumb and bell. being worn originally on
,be thumb. It is Dutch invention, and was
brought to England in 1875 by John Lofting,
vbo manufactured them near London. Orig
;paIly thew were made Of brass and iron only,
bot Of late years silver, gold, pearl and ivory
are used.
The new glass invented in Vienna seems to
have proved a success in the qualities claimed
for it-that is, it is transparent and more bril-
liant than common crystal, can be cut and pol
shed. and when fused, adheres to iron, bronze
and zinc. Singular enough, the glass differs
from all others, new or old, in that its compo
sition includes none of the usual ingredients
sick. potash, soda, lime or borax.
The first attempts to introduce gas as an
ilIuminAtor in the United States were made in
Baltimore between 1916 and 1870. They failed,
but il was successfully introduced into Boston
in 1872. The next year the first gaslight CON-
many was formed in New York, the "New York
Gasiicht Company" They began operations
with a capital Of 81 ,Oo0, 900. But the people
were SO slow to adopt the new illuminator that
the company was not in full operation till s27
when the population was about 10000.
The two tiny satellites of Mars, which were
discovered by Prof. Asaph Hall in 1877, have
diamelers Of less than ten miles each, and arc
the smallest celestial bodies known. The
outer one-l2, 900 miles from the planet-com-
pletes a revolution in its orbit in about thirty
bours in direction from west TO east, and the
inner moon-about $500 miles from the pla-
pe,-coes round in the same way IL about
even holrs and half. Mars turns on its
aris in twenty-four and half hours from west
IN east. One moon therefore travels slower,
tban Mars, and rises for him in the east, while
The other outruns him and comes up in the
west.
statistician, DR.. FeT, we believe 1t was,
recently stated that if one could watch the
march Of l,0OO,0 900 people through life, the
following would be observable: Nearly 100000
would die the first year, $4,000 the second
wear, $4,000 the third year, and less than 1000
IN the thirteenth. At the end of forty-five
wears 500, 900 have died. At the end of sixty
Years $40, 900 would be still living; at the end
Of eighty years, 81, 900, at the eighty 81
900; and al ninety-fve years there wolld be
g2s: at the end Of los years there will be one
survivor.
"Ny attention was attracted by woman
some 10 years Of age, who was gorgeously at
tired, and seemed in her manner to feel that
she was somebody and anxious to impress
others with that fact. She was tall, well set
M, with England's limestone formation in the
way Of bones, well covered with adipose, rath-
CT coarse in tissue, garnished with light blne
ewes and an abundance Of yellow hair. There
was something vulgar in this woman's appear
ance when quiet and it be came oppressive
when she moved and that was nearly all the
time. She seemed TO court observation and al
the same time despise it. / was not surprised
when friend told me that this bumptious
pe son was none other than ouida, the we'll
known novelist"
The sugar trade question is occupying as
r1prh attention in Paris as in London, only
don working men are protesting against the
French sugar bounties that ruin the English
rehners, mass meetings Of French politician:
are suggesting, in addition to the sugar bOuu-
lies, an extra tax on English sugar and an im-
mort duty on beet root, each being equivalent
10 further premium of 2o,ooo,O0O francs fol
ibe French manufacturers. One thing is very
obvious: however dead the English sugar trad,
nav be, the French are determined to kill i
again, regardless Of expense
A PERFECT MAN.-Hu1ley gives the fol-
lowing table of what full-grown man should
weight and how this weight should be divid-
ed: Weight, l5i pounds. Made up this: Mus
lies and their appurtenances, es pounds
skeleton, 81 pounds; skin, l0js pounds; fat
. pounds; brain, , pounds: thoracic viscera
az pounds; abdominal viscera, II pounds
Hood which would drain from body, pounds
This man ought to consume per diem: Lean