The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-10-01
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tne setting Oh the stone.
Frames of white lace over tufted bright
colored satin are the newest for the family
photographs in the parlor.
Arrow-root gives certain srichness TO
sauces which renders less butter necessary
than If flour is used for thickening.
During last year no fewer than 1851 per-
sons were arrested in London for assaults.
more or less serious, upon the police. This
was an increase of only ten on the previous
year.
Professor Ball, the Astronomer Royal for
ireland, in an address on comets: considered
that the meteoroids seen as shooting stars in
1866 were actually the remains Of the tails of
comets.
According to Professor Wanklyn the manu-
facture Of gas from lined coal is a success, as
it reduces the amount of sulphur compounds
TO three grains in the hundred cubic feet, and
increase the yield Of ammonia and tar by the
abolition of the lime purifiers.
The English authorities arc once more nj
stituting active measures TO suppress betting.
At Leicester recently n publican named
Brough was fined e IS for permitting betting.
The detectives got ladders at the rear of the
premises, and watched the betting opera
tons
Winter and wild beasts make sad work
among domestic animals in Russia Last year
it i declared that from cold, snoV storms,
and disease $3.50 camels, 900 horses, a.
600 cattle, and 100000 sheep persisted, and
that 10000 cattle were killed by the voices
No one Of my fellows can do that special
work for me which have come into the world
to do; he may do higher work, but he can
not do my work. cannot hand my work
over TO HIM, any more than | can hand over
my responsibility or my giIts.-Ruskin.
NJ +. Dupont in paper Oh certain caibon-
ferrous limestones explains the formation of
the older marine rocks of organic origin by
causes still in operation, and from this
deduces fresh proof of the value Of the
comparative method applied TO the study of
the past geology of the globe.
1t is stated that sackcloth, or canvas. can
be made as imperyious to moisture as leather
by sleeping it in decoction Of one pound of
oak bark with fourteen pounds Of boiling
water, this quantity being sufficient for eight
yards Ct stsuff. The cloth has TO soak twenty
four hours, when it is taken out, passed
through running water, and hung up to dry.
This is how corn pops When pop corn is
gradually heated, and SO hot that the oil in
side the kernels turns to gas. this gas cannot
escape through the hull of the kernels, but
when the interior pressure gets strong enough
1t bursts the grain, and the explosion is SO
violent that it skaters it in the most curious
manner
Some very ancient ruins have been discover
ed near Magdalena, in Sonora, Mexico. There
is one pyramid which has base Of 1850 feet
aud rises TO height Of $50 feet. 1t has
winding roadway from the bottom. Hundreds
OF rooms, from five to ten 10 sixteen or eigh-
teen feet square, have been cut in the sides of
this mountains. These are of solid stone,
with no entrance except at the top, and no
windows. On the walls are numerous hero
glyphics.
The Aadtyst says that pure creosote, not
carbolic acid, proves beneficial 10 consump
tives and sufferers from chronic catarrh; it is
also markedly anti-asthmatic. The proper
adult dose is from Ia to % of a gram, two
or three times daily. The maximum single
dose is "a of a grain. 1t is best given in
pills, made by melting two parts of yellow
wax and one of creosote, TO which any other
ingredients desired may be added
Il is said that glass is gradually beginning
70 take the place Of wood and iron in the
construction of bridges in England The in
ventor makes blocks of glass which he hard
eps by special process In solidity it is
said 10 leave nothing TO he desired The ex-
periments already made have given surpris-
ing results, and the cost is below that of
bridges Of wood or iron. Moreover the glass
cannot be injured by insects like wood, nor
rusted like iron.
A paper recently read before the French
Academy Of Medicine expressed the writer's
conviction that one in every 5000 persons is
buried alive. This estimate, however exag-
gerated, is not calculated to allay an appre-
hension which is conspicuous among the
French people, and which was lately brought
TO public attention by the declaration of the
President of the Chamber Of Notares that ex-
press instructions are given in Que will out
OF every ten TO have the testator's heart pierre
by qualified surgeon before the lid of the
coffin is screwed down.
The natives of the Chloe Islands make use
ef curious natural barometer. to which,
from its having been first noticed by the Cap
tain of an Italian corvette, the name "Bar-
Fpetre Araucano" has been given. This
ioYel weather guide is the shell of crab,
one Of the Anomura, prcbaly Of the genus
Lithodes. 1t is peculiarly sensitive to at
mospheric changes. 1t has a color nearly
white in dry weather, but as soon as wet
weather approaches small red spots are ex-
hibited, varying in number and intensity with
the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. In
the rainy season il is completely red.
The last contribution of modern chemistry
TO science is the production Of uuinine from
gas tar. Professor Fischer, of Munich. has
succeeded in obtaining from distilled coal A
white crystalline powder, which, SO far as
regards its action on the human system, can
not be distinguished from quinine except that
it assimilates even more readily with the
stomach. Its efficacy in reducing fever heat
is said to be remarkable, even rendering the
use Of ice unnecessary. The Importance Of
such discovery as this consists not so much
IN the actual fact achieved as in the stimulus
given 10 scientific research by the opening up
OF a new channel of investigation. The ro-
nance Of gas tar is evidently far from being
exhausted. In addition to the sweetest scents,
the most brilliant dyes, the most powerful
disinfectants, and even prussic acid are some
Of the numerous and wonderful products Of
its decomposition
Most old people die from overlooking or
exposure. In old age the resisting power of
the system is very greatly lessened, and a
degree Of exposure or indiscretion which
might have been borne with IMMUNITY a few
years earlier in life may be sufficient to dis
turb the vital machinery sufficiently TO pro-
duce fatal results. Excess in eating is per-
maps more general cause OF bastenlng dis
solution in the old than any other form Of ex-
cess. The diminished bodily activity renders
less food necessary to supply the wants OF the
body; and when the amount of food taken is
not proportionately reduced tho system be-
comes clogged, the blood gross, excited, and
filled with imperfectly elaborated material;
the biood-vessels are surcharged, aud. in
consequence, the liability to apoplexy or
some ether form Of paralysis is very greatly
increased. Heavy feeding is absolutely dan
gerons for man above fifty years Of age.
The blood-vessels are weakened in old age.
sometimes to a very remarkable extent; and
the fulness and congestion Of the brain which
result from excess at the table are almost as
fatal as dose Of strychnia or a leaden bullet
Excess in the use Of meat is especially to be
condemned in elderly persons. Flesh food is
stimulating 10 the cerebral circulation, at the