The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1884-10-07
Tuesday, Oct. z, 1884.
THE HAWAIIAN MON rHLY." "

This m Igazine has retchel its
tenth number, an h - brc.'Ie an in
stitutiOu in the la ud. We hope that
the Iterpris. yiel-l5 SO ne kind of
pecuuiary profit however moderate,
because 1T certainly DIS .rvrs 1t, AMI
we desire to see the Monthly take a
permanent place in our periodical !
literature, which cannot be expected
if the venture be u losing one. The
magazine has, by it's merits, won its
way to a circulation, and some of
those who, when it was started,
thought there was no reason for its
existence, have since become con
trIbuLOrs to Its pages. 1t forms fit
ting vehicle for the publication of
much matter that thoughtful men
are glad to contribute To it, but which
wovld he rather out of place in the
columns OF a newspaper. 1t has beer
conducted with ability and with
much painstaking, and the heavier
matter which gives it its chief value
has been adr0itly mingled with light
literature of a much higher stamp
than is usually found in the pages of
a magazine whose sphere is so limit
ed as that of the HaU0iio71 Monthly
must necessarily be.
The number for October opens with
an Article OH ''Rei Sunsets from
French source, inserted as u parallel
to the paper by Rev. S. E. Bishop, and
as confirmatory in many points of
that gentleman's theory. AS to
the origin of these sunset and
sunrise wonders Mr.. DAMN, the
author, whose papers there con-
densed. offers III substance the follow
ing opinion: origin of this
hign-placed dust is next considered at
length, and the view that it came
from the Krakatoa eruption of Aug.
28th and 29th is fully accepted. The
terrific manifestations of plutonic
energy by which this eruption was
are vividly portrayed,
but we have no space to follow them
in detail. One point of special inn
portance must, however, be men-
toned. After describing the enOr-
nous show 4rS of mud, ashes, pumice,
ETC., which descended upon land and
sea for hundreds of miles, and the
dense darkness by which il was ac-
we are told that at Bata-
via the fall of these materials ceased
one day before the return of ligh .
This is All important circumstance,
for it indicates that IL dense, ereistent
an opaque cloud had formed aud vas
itself in the upper AIR"
The following qu ptlti"n from Mr..
DIuiu's own words is given as an
endorse nent of the theory lvanced
by Rev. Mr.. Bishop. To our mind i t
differs materially from the "EI Ia
turiIl Smoke Stream hypothesis of
that gen lem al, which, though highly
ingenious, aud covering closely the |
known facts, yet wants some e .rfOb-
Drdtinu from independent examples |
Df similar action before it can be said !
20 be wholly proven.
.'It is certain that on the 2Sth of August |
he volcano launched out Il stream of ashes |
md vapor of water partially condensed, |
making a vertical hole in the air, passing |
he atmosphere and forming a sort of pro-
uberance, in which il united an accumula-
ion of variety of materials. The larger
mes falling around the volcano, the re-
nainder continued floating as clouds and
moke, floating, gliding Sideways, spre aiding
,tt i1a all directions like oil on loate1, form
superior cap, stratus composed solely of
lust and vapor of water, persisting stratus,
apable of diffusing the rays, of lengthening
he twilight, of coloring the solar light,
apable, in word, of developing the op-
ical phenomena we have sought to explain"
a large part of the magazine is
AIKEN up with the continuation of the