The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-09-09

much would be something.
In Grenoble, Amelie till her death, was
ever called by the citizens-"Her Majesty
Madame Bernadotte."
The Biggest Printing Job in tho World.
The government printing office, says the
Cincinnati Coauereidl Gazette, has just com
pleted what is probably the biggest job IN
the printing line attempted in this or any
other country. The Job referred to was
an order given by the treasury department.
for 50,000,000 labels, to be attached to
tobacco packages as evidence that such
packages have been inventoried for the
purpose of aseertaining the amount OF re-
bate due the dealer or manufacturer under
the new internal revenue law. Some OF
the details of this label job will be interest.
ing as showing the enormous capacity of
the government printing office, and the
| immense amount of money the govern
ment saves by doing its own printing; Inc
form for the label was electrotyped and
one hundred copies taken OF it for each OF
eight presses. AT each revolution of the
eight cylinders eight hundred labels were
printed, and it took the eight presses SIX
and one half days to do the presswork::
The Job required one thousand reams OF
paper and 81 900 worth Of red ink. At an
average price of SI50 per thousand i'm
pressions, which the government would
probably have had to pay to a private
printer. the presswork alone would cost
$4,000. The 5O,O00,0O0 label job is, be
lieved to be the biggest job of printing ever
turned out in this country or the whole
world.
1t has been discovered by an authro-
pologist. who announces the fact in the
Pal jLoH Gazette, that the adoption OF gar
ments by barbarous people is followed
sooner or later, by their extinction. lie
therefore strongly urges upon the missio
! naries not to introduce the death-bearlng
trousers or Notwithstanding petticoats
among the uncivilized races whom they
, are trying to convert.
: At a meeting of the st. Petersburg
, Health Committee the fact was brought Il
5 light that the large death-rate in Russian
hospitals is caused by the lack OF nourlsh
, ing food for patients The allowance o
= about II cents day for diet does not sui
r fee to buy SO much as pound of beef 10
broth, and of such food as the patient
4 succeed in procuring they are PARTIAL,
y robbed by the ill-fed nurses.
9 To test the purity Of water there ma
Il been found no better or simpler way tina,
!: to fill clean pint bottle threefourths fu
of the water to be tested, and dissolve
: the water half teaspoonful of the pures
sugar-loaf or granulated will answer
cork the bottle, and place 1t IN war;
G place for two days If in twenty-four
/ forty-eight hours the water becomes cloud
or milky it is unfit for domestic use.
! When paraffine is thoroughly mike
i with linseed oil, cast into small blocks an
= allowed to cool, it may be used to max
\ any fabric, as cloth, felt and leather, waite
. proof by rubbing it with such block an
- ironing afterward to equalize the distr1bl
tion Of the material in the pores. Ii to
IS much is not put on the material may l
y made to be only impervious to water, bI
L not to air, as the very small grease port
d repel the water, but not the air.
By means of simple and convenient
y worked device of coiled spring, an Englls
~ inventor has succeeded in dispensing vii
~ the need of driving sewing machines |
II hand or foot; few turns of a hand
u u winds up sufficient power to keep ma
~ !, hine going at full speed over an hour.
80 ~ is completely under control as to the ra
80 of stitching and stopping, and can be a
II piled to any existing machine at modera
cost.
- Luminous paint, so called, continues
nj be imported in large quantities by regi4,
y where earthquakes are prevalent: In u
in Philippine Islands small metallic plat
90 90 coated with the paint are so disposed abo
the houses as to afford ready guidance
"a the first intimation of an earthquake 1
~ - the inmates to reach the street doors a
W. W. make their escape from the buildings
,as danger of becoming ruins suddenly
hi The royal harem of Persia contains
ne Europeans or male persons over the
IA of IL. Each royal favorite has herseparIi
IN. pavilion and her staff of servants, |
al. eduipages, her jewels and her reyen