The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-02-05

The new anpsthetic, a preparation
of cocoaine, was successfully used
by DR.. Rec, of Rochester,, N. Y, a
few days ago, in eXtirpating half of
a mans tongue, which was affected
with cancer. The cocoaine was
applied to the left side of the tongue
and rubbed in, and soon the flesh
became inscnsiblc TO the thrust of a
needle, and was as cold as ice, while
the right side was in its normal con-
dition. The knife was then applied,
and the left side of the tongue was
successfully cut away without pain
to the patient. Surgeons have thought
that the drug would not be useful
except in superficial operations.
Queen Victoria owns in her own
name the greak park surrounding
Windsor Castle, which comprises
$4,000 acres of ground. AS COM
mercial venture, however, it does
not pay, the receipts last year from
rental, sales of produce and venison
being only about 1925, 900, while the
expenses Of keeping it up amounted
to S125, 900. There arc other royal
parks in and about London, but as
they are more or less open to public
use, they are not considered exclu-
sive crown lands. The thrifty
Queen, however, owns more than
five hundred houses in London, on
which she collects her rents regu-
larly.
An invention has recently been
perfected in the South that is OK
pected to be scarcely second in i'm
portance to the cotton-gin. 1t is
Mason's cotton-picker, which is said
to have proven entirely successful.
Commissioners appointed on behalf
of the New Orleans Exposition have
followed the machine in the field,
and record their official opinion that
one picker, carefully driven, drawn
by one mule and followed by three
cleaners, will do the work of forty
pairs Of human hands. The flying
metallic fingers pluck only the full
blown cotton. The plants are unin-
jured. The fibre thus pluclled is
automatically baggcd.
1t is proposed in New York to
have the famous Adirondack region
converted into State park, as Cali
fornia has done with the Yosemite
Valley. Lumbermen have stripped
of timber all the foothills in the re-
gion which supplies the Hudson with
its sources, and forest fires have
devastated many of the mountain
peaks. The land is unfit for cultiv-
alton, or even for grazing, and I'M
less the State takes some measures
to protect the timber, the sources of
that beautiful river will soon be
dried up.
A scientific paragraph is going the
rounds of the papers to the effect
that the best process for drying
timber consists in surrounding tho
wood with common salt. In ordinary
liiln-drying the albumen is killed OF
destroyed, and the surface dies out
first, thus sealing the juices inside
to escape eventually through cracks
caused by the uneven expansion Of
the wood. The new process is
vastly better.
An Ohio man challenges the world
to produce the equals of pair o.
steers raised by himself, which he il
about to send to the New Orleans
Exposition. These monsters are
from Ashland County, and one o.
them weighs A $50 pounds, is 6 fee
4 inches in height, and measures II
feet z inches around the girth.
A family of twelve children, of TIT
same father and mother, now living
in England, can count up thei
aggregate ages to the figure of 81:
years. The youngest is 70, and thu
oldest is 80, the average for each o
the twelve being 81 years.
The colored people of the United
States were to have conference a
New Orleans on January 10, 1885
to devise means to enable coloret
youth to obtain better facilities TO
education in the trades.
Over twenty thousand Germans
are employed in London, monopoliz
ing almost entirely the barber, tailo
and waiter trades.
Rabbits have become such I
nuisance in Australia that the Bishop
of Melbourne has ordered prayers Il
be offered for the prevention OF theil