Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-08-23

While on the subject Of patent medicines it
would be ungraceful not to notice the com
pound whose title heads this article. Its use
IS Of higher importance than ''billerine, |
which though often Of use to titled and even I
royal personages, is of special advantage to
number and less we'll established folk But |
'gibkapneugu' is valuable to those only who
nave taste for governing, and who would |
rather than not hold high office. The discoy- |
cry Of "gibkapneugu" while it is IF the highest
importance to science-and especially to the
,cience Of governmcnt-is Of a very recent
late The present "premire" Of this country.
gentleman as modest as he is talented, fur
iished most Of the material Of the compound.
The four plants ''gib, ""kap, ''neu' and gu
have long been known to possess medicinal pro-
pertes, but it was reserved for the ''premirc,
with the generous countenance and royal favor
Of his sovereign to compoundlhe medicine inthe
proportions embodied in the form of which his
majesty and his majesty's prernirc alone pos
! ;.ss the formula "Gib" is a sea weed, first
discovered on the Sargossa sea, where the in
| iuence Of the Gull Stream probably has much
to do with its life-and thanksgiving proper
ties. 1t is soapy to the touch, prehensii- in
appearance and fe,id in odor. ''kap" is a
domestic house plant, indigenous to these is
lands, and easily grown in shallow soil with
,uficien, moisture. 1t is alcoholic in its juices,
and like mos, Towering plants, runs readily to
seed. "Neu" is an exotic, nausplanted by
Chance, Fate & Co., from Germany to Cali
iornia and re.transplanted by that eminent bo-
tanist Sir Claus Spreckes from San Francisco
10 this city. Its chief Characteristic is the alb
'orbing power OF its capillery system and braz-
IN colors of its flower petals. ecu" is a plant
whose progentors were sent to these Islands
from New England generation ago. The pa
rent stock was hardy. vigorous genus OF field
plants, possessing many useful properties.
i Save for its uses in the wonderful combination
whose efficacy we are about TO describe, gu"
j, as degenerate, useless and characterless
a plant as inhabits the islands, sharing with the
antana and the gum arabic most unenviable
reputation. The combination, however, while
it par,akes somewhat OF the nature OF all the
mt in its effects from any OF the four. Its value
to political bosses, ringsters, tyrants, spend
hrift sovereigns. dishonest administrators and
! the like is simply incs,imable. One ,estimo-
NAL from some FIVE hundred thousand a, hand
must suffice.
To THE PRoPRIEToRs OF THE ELExIs
DishngNishei Siy5: have
t just employed one bottle Of your invaluable
specific in a crisis which | believed would be
certainly fatal. My army had been defeat,
ed on the field Of battle My foreign credit
was exhausted Domestic taxes had failed
and ruin stared me in the face. Invited to din
DER the foreign representative OF my most pow
erful neighbor, several Of my tax CATERERS, :
few Judges OF inferior courts, severel merchants
distinguished sailor, no, less distinguished
3 officer OF the army. banker, stock broker
n and one honest man. To each Of them-in tn,
b soup--I administered few drops Of ''Gibkap
E neugu.n The result was magical. Few
a weeks later my armies returned with all ,hei
E banners flying. My most powerful neighbo
expressed her entire and abiding friendship
the banker aud the merchants refunded the for
cign loan at a lower rate, and loaned a few cd,
: millions for spending money To cut loni
!, story short, the royal goose hangs high--a
!. Shakespeare hath Il.
Yours gratefully
The IsARnlyE OF NORMANDY