Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-09-20
Notes From Exchanges.

From iOuf acres II would seem 10 be
a difficult matter to get net profit OF
1900, yet this is the record made by
a market gardener of Morris, Illinois ;
further, the vegetables used in his fam
lily do no no, enter into the calculation
The secluSion OF Indian women is
considered to have been considerably
lesscned by the late Calcutta EXposi-
tion. Over 10000 women passed
through the Ladies Court, cvinclng the
utmost interest and astonishment
More freedom is now allowed TO some
native ladies in Madras, as at a recent
archery meeting a native princess com
pcted with the European ladies, and
made a very crcditable score.
Since the railways penetrated the
northern plains OF the United States
many have made a lucrative business of
collecting the bones Of slaughtered buf
fGioes and deer which are scattered far
and wide over those breezy pastures
These are worth eight dollars ton at
the railway, and hitherto have been
sent chiefly to Philadelphia; but mill
for grinding bone-meal is about to be
erected at Bismark, Dakota The meal
is used in making fertilizers.
In nature, seen under ordinary day
light, there are for the healthy human
eye about I,Ioo dis,inguishable colors
For hundred and two of these, Roget
has names but the number OF color
names in modern French is said to be
not short of 500. Alma Tadema repro
duces his color-impressions of the an
tique world by palette OF twelve colors,
while the palette OF Virgirs vocabulary
contains twenty-seven terms Of high
colors, and fifteen more for shades due
10 excess or deficiency OF illumination.
Here is another one of Edisons pre-
dictions "As to the changes which
will be effected by electricity within
fifty years in the city of New York,
would say that believe that electricity
will propel the cars of the street and
elevated railroads, light the city within
and without its buildings, furnish power
for all purposes, work telephones and
burglar alarms, deliver the opera, con-
vey parcels, detect and signal fires,
operate fire engines, and possibly dis
place animal locomotion for vehicles.
Henequin, istle and Sisal-grass now
pay an import in the United States OF
SIS ton, and India hemp, India
MANILA and other like substitutes for
hemp, $a5 a ton. Under the reciproc-
ity treaty between Mexico and the
United States, Mexican ibers are ad.
mitted free OF duty. In consequence,
the heavy duties on Manila hemp, In
dia jute, etc, must cause displace-
ment OF those articles in favor of the
Mexican fbers, just as Mexican hene-
quin has for general use, as well as for
harvesting, already in the manufacture
of twines, displaced or superseded
Manila hemp, the fiber OF the plantain
OF the Philippine Islands.
There has recently been arranged in
the Egyptian Museum Of Boolak col
lection OF dried garlands of fowersfound
with mummies coeval with Amenoho-
,ep |. They consist largely Of lo,us
flowers and are as perfect, in most cas-
es, and as brilliant in hue as those Of
the same sort dried to-day; and were i,
not that the evidence shows the gar
lands to have been tied with the date
leaf thread three thousand years ago,
no ordinary observer would suspect that
they ereantique. Onone mummy, dated
about 100 b. C., was found llchen
OF kind indigenous to the Grecian
Archipelago, which is sold for medioi
nal purposes by the native druggists.
II appears that in Rhondda Valley
in Wales, "a great extent OF the
mountain-tops was recently carpeted
with the bodies of large caterpillars; sc
thickly did they lie on the hillside,
that the coltagers we're burning then
for fuel Moun,ain-tops muiiled W
in large caterpillars constitute such :
phenomenon as may be considered lol
erably unique, Perhaps, however
most surprising OF all is the use to which
the simple yillager puts this truly anc
awful visitation OF worms. We know
that the Arab turns the scurge Of 10
Gusts to advantage by eating the crea
tures; he picks of their wings and leg
aud deyours them shrlmp-iashIon, o