The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-03-11
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tNateu 1lInOlny Wlth gOOu success.
Nine Ristori is proud of necklace that
was worn at the Court Of good Queen Bess.
King Alfonso has joined the Masons.
He did it to get square with the other fel-
lows
Goulds partner Conner. figures ont
Gouid's income as the bagatelle Of S6,OOO,-
600 year.
A school of forestry is TO be established
IN connection with the University of
Edinburgh
Vice President-elect Hendricks seldom
smokes Hoosier tobacco He won't Havana
kind but the best.
The grasshopper develops from the
young larya to the winged adult without
changing its mode of life
Mrs. E. D. L. n. Southworth is in her
slxty-tifth year, and is writing her sixty
fifth novel, says the Baltimore Sun.
Princess Beatrice, only daughter of
Don Carlos OF Spain, entered nunnery
Just before her father sailed for India
'She has suggestion Of the brain, mixed
up with ammonia" was the description of
a case as given by our washer-woman
Many poor woman thinks she can do
nothing without husband; and when she
gets one, finds she can do nothing with
him.
Discretion of speech is more than elo-
quence, and 10 speak agreeably TO him
with whom we deal is more than to speak
IN good words, or in good order
Last years immigration to the United
States is less than that Of 1888 by over
100000. Much of the pauper labor of
Europe evidently prefers TO stay at home.
1t Is curious fact that the looms used
IN the manufacture Of silk in New Jersey
are almost fac-similes Of those employed
Tor the same purpose in India and China.
In London an electric light has been
used to illuminate the interior of an oven.
The door was of plate glass, and every
part OF the process of baking could be
distinctly seen.
The Duke of Marlborough has sold his
Raphael, the pride of his ancestral house,
for three hundred thousand dollars, the
money to be paid when Parliament meets
in the Spring.
III you put soda in the water with which
you are to wash windows. you will find
that inger-marks, putty stains etc, will
be much more easily removed than if
clean water alone is used.
To make good starch, mix with cold
water and add boiling water until it thick
ems; then add dessert spoonful of sugar
and a small piece of butter This makes
a stiff and glossy finish equal to new.
Pleasure is silken cord composed of
exquisite cobwebs, and floods of rich sun
shine give II a beautiful hue. Duty is
golden rope, which once thrown over our
necks, leads up unwillingly where plea
sure is obliged to follow.
While our country is supposed to be
nearly free from earthquakes no less than
36i shocks were recorded in the United
States and Canada in the twelve years
ending with 1888 This is an average Of
about one IN every twelve days.
They came very near securing a down
east schoolma am to teach little school
in Kansas, but when the committee told
her that it was on the "bare prairie" she
screamed and said she couldn't think of
going to such an immodest place.
Sir Henry Bessemer has announced
that, by the use of very pure charcoal
pig iron and its treatment by special
method, a Bessemer steel is produced
which on analysis is found equal in purity
to the highest brands of steel made from
blistered bars
'Can dogs find their way home from
long distance?n asks an exchange. It's
according TO the dog II it's one you
want TO get rid OF, he can find his way
back from California. II it's good one.
he's apt TO get lost if he goes around the
corner.
Before the Linnean Society. Of London,
Mr. A. Taylor has sought TO prove that
plants have a dim sort of intelligence, and
are able, at lowl organized animals. One
proof Of this, is the plants avoidance of
obstacles placed artiicially in their way
by bending aside before touching.
Grehant and Quinquand say that sub
cutaneous injections of increasing doses
of aqueous solutions of pure urea invaris-
bly, terminated in tetanic commissions and
death. The cohyulsions resembled those
produced by strychnine, and were followed
by death in the course of from one to ten
hours.
4 vain mans motto is: Win gold and
wear it, generous mans: win gold
and share it; a miser's: "Wln gold and
spare it," a profigate's: win gold and
spend it, brokers': win gold and
lend it;n FOOLS: Win gold and end it;
gamblers: Win gold and lose it," a
wise mans: WIN gold and use it."
you can't add different things togeth-
err said an Austin school-teacher: IF you
add a sheep and cow together, it does
not make two Sleeps or two cows A
little boy, the son Of a Texas milkman,
held up his hand and said: THAT may
do with sheep and cows but if you add a
quart of water and a quart of milk, it
makes two quarts Of milk; I've seen it
tried"
Some of the researches lately made by
English explorers in regard to deep-sea
beds have led to the belief that there are
no rough ridges, abrupt chasms nor bare
rock. and that the sea bottom at great
depths is not affected by currents or
streams-even by those of the magnitude
of the Gulf Stream-its general appear
ance rather resembling that of the Ameri-
can prairies, and it is everywhere covered
by kind Of mud.
Speaking OF the supposed poisonous
properties Of alliline dyes the British Nedi-
cal Journal states that since the arsenic
acid process of their manufacture has
been suspended the ordinary. anilines,
such as fuchsine, HofmHn's violet, Nichol-
sons blue and the maroons and browns
have never produced undoubted injurious
effects. The injury caused by hosiery
dyed with aniline has been traceable to
the use Of metallic mordRunts.
Form-5lindness, or an inability to clear
lv perceive forms and outlines, is new
defect that has been discovered by q New
York artist. who says he has sometimes
placed objects in the shape OF -hexagons,
or octagons, or decagons or even so com
mon a shape as pentagon or hvepolnted
star before certain pupils as test, and al
most invariably they were unable to dis
tinguish one form from another, even
when with careful distinction the differ
ences were explained to them.
A sarcophagus with four face urns has
been recently found at Gsrzigar, near Kos
lin (POmerania), and has been sent TO the
Ant4ouarian Museum of the Pomeraniar
ANTIQUARIAN Society at Stettin. A similar
discovery was made last year at Klein
Krakow fanotner EPomersnian vilage.l
Round one of the urns was placed bronze
necklace. consisting Of stout bronze wire
supporting eight so-called spectacie-Spi
n,is as ornaments. Prof. Berndt has
moved in his work on Pomeranian face
urns that they are really OF Greek or.yln u