The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-11-26
MiscenRueouS.

illinois has 255,7Il farms, Ohio 2I7, Ise, and
New York 2il ,O5s.
The most happy man is he who knows how
10 bring into relation toe end and the begin
ming Of his life.-Goethe
One of the plans to make Paris seaport is
to convert the river Seine into canal ninety
eight feet wide The cost Of dredging, etc,
is estimated at $50 100000.
A band Of Italian brigands captured duke
recently and held him for thirty days; Any
American heiress can do that, and hold him
longer.
The vote Of Maine is y per cent of the
population Of voting age; of New Hampshire,
50 per cent; of Vermont, &C per cent; Of Con-
neoticut, 66 per cent.
A wit says
'In Germany, when q paper says anything
witty, they kill the editor; and not one editor
has been killed there for two hundred years"
Raillery is sometimes more insupportable
than wrong; because we have a right to re-
rent injuries, but il is ridiculous to be angry
at -Rochefoucauld.
Spongus which are TO be used in the bath
room may be softened by boiling for few
minutes in three or four waters. After each
time Of boiling rinse it in cold wafer, and put
on the stove again in pan Of cold water.
HIS heart was as great as the world, but
there was no room in il TO hold the memory
Of a wrong. Character is higher thlS intel
lcct. A great soul will be strong to live, SIS
well as to think.-Emerson.
did not the sons Of Jacob commit heinous
sin when they sold their brother Joseph"
asked a Sunday school teacher sf the son Of
an Austin merchant. Yes, sir" "What
sin was it they committed" "They sold
him too cheap"
A Missionary of the China Island Mission,
in the province Of Kan-suh, saws that IN Tribe
tab families every other son is given up to the
service Of the gods, and is supported by his
family. A principal temple has 800 priests;
another has 100.
Kind words don't cost anything. This is
what Miss Porter, 4 worthy Kentucky girl,
thought when she replied pleasantly TO the
salutations Of a gray-haired tramp. He has
died and left her sung little fortune, and
now she thinks they are worth good deal.
We need not ask will the true, pure, loving,
holy man be sayed2" for he is saved; be has
heaven; It is in him now. He has part Of
his inheritance now, and he is soon TO pos
sess the whole.
An exceedingly delicate and very impOr-
taut instrument among the French exhibits at
the Philadelphia Electrical Exhibition, is
Prof. Regards apparatus for the study of the
respiration Of animals. By means Of this the
scientist can measure the quantity Of air bre-
athed by the animal in given time, and can
make a complete analysis Of it afterward.
a scholar in country school was asked,
"How do You parse Mary milks the cow?''
The last word was disposed Of as follows:
r IL.
and stands for Mary" Islands for Mary2
How do YOU make that out?'' Because
added the intelligent pupil, ''if the COW didn't
stand for Mary, how could she milk her?"
II is reported from Paris that experiments
made in the hospitals show that sulphide Of
carbon is the best agent 10 restore the normal
action Of the bowels in case Of cholera. 1t
has restored TO consciousness in thirty seconds
hysterical patients who, previous to its ad-
ministraton, were insensible to even the
pricking of needles.
Henri Parville, in the Paris DsbatS, quotes
reference to the singular action of oil on
waves by Theophylactes, the Byzantine his
torian Of the sixth century. As the wind, he
SAYS, is Subtle and delicate thing" aud oil
is adhesive, unctious and smooth, the wind
glides over the surface of the water on which
oil has been spread, and cannot raise waves
One Of the newest and most helpful cleo
trical inventions is the dental and electrical
lamp, for the purpose Of illuminating the
mouth and other parts Of the human anatomy
The battery used to produce this light is
only six inches square, but the light il pro-
duces is so brilliant Il penetrates the skin and
actually shows through it the root Of a tooth
enabling dentist to know at once what causes
any Of its diseases
Man, according TO W. J. Knowles, mus
have taken up his residence in ireland at :
very early stage in the history Of the world
Mr.. Knowles has discovered fints at Lane and
other places on the northeast coast of thai
country, some Of which, he believes, show
evident traces Of human workmanship. Ont
large Clipped implement was found in wha
appeared TO he true undisiurbed boulder clay
There are other tools which Mr.. Knowles ha:
in his possession which seem to indicate tha
man has lived in Ireland long before th,
paleolithic period-during, in fact, the glacia
epoch,
Some people are as ignorant Of the wore
"friend," in its true sense, as they are O
Hebrew. If one numbers his pseudo friends
by scores and hundreds, he will usually find
intime Of advorsity, that they are quite al
remarkably scarce as angels visits arc sup
posed to be. II be has but few friends, anc
those true ones, they will support and encour
agc him, though the whole remaining worl,
demand that be be crucifed. Like all thing
precious, such friends are rare, but they exis
nevertheless. And we ought, if we are sur
we possess them, to prize them more highl,
. than gold or jewels.
Most persons are familiar with those trouble
some bits Of skin which loosen al the roots Q
the finger nails. 1t is caused by their adher
ing 10 the nail, which, growing outward
drags the skin along with it, stretching
until one end gives way. To prevent this
the skin should be loosened from the nail
once a week, not with a knife or scissors, bu
with something blunt, such as the end Of a
ivory paper cutter. This is best done afte
soaking the fingers in warm water, then push
ing the skin back gently and slowly. Til
white specks on the nail are made by scrapin
the nail with knife at point where it EN-
erges from the skin.
Everybody knows Of the crookedness
Boston streets, but we think Viii Rivers tell
the best story about them. He says he wa
locking for 4 certain place one day, and afts
turning multitudinous corners and beconin
hopelessly involved in a maze Of sinuC
sinuosity William didn't say sinuoSity, b.
He NoUo u ~ 1aa tnOaheA-S " 49, II rSS9ifs
to ask for assistance. Turning another corn'
at the moment be saw Just ahead Of him a ma
whose coat he reached out quickly to gras
10 arrest bis attention, when Dc himself al Il
same moment felt a violent pull from benin
Turning hastily, Will discovered that, by T,
ason Of the crooked street and phenomenall
sharp corner, he had grabbed himself by h
own coat-tail
Cheap and movable fences for poultry yam
can be made of lath, that will last from thr,
to SIX years. Set them up against stalk
driven into the ground, or into holes ma,
with q crow bar, and fasten the lengths Qeig
or ten feet long, by wires to the posts
boards al the bottom set horizontally viii kel
small chickens in the yard if that is desire
A yard made in this way is better for he
with chicks than to imprisCn them for wee