The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-03-11
hIisoelIanoous.

AINcuel tables may be made as W0lte as /
snow if washed with hard soap and ashes. |
Floors look best scrubbed with cold water |
and wood ashes.
kOssuth lives III a little attic apartment |
at Turin, having retired from his business !
as teacher Of the English language, andi
feeble IN his old age.
Never contradic' anybody in general
society. Rarely d, even at hons. No ,
body likes TO be contradicted, even when |
contradiction Is deserved.
A correspondent Of a newspaper describ |
ing neighboring river as a "sickly |
stream, the editor appended the remark |
That's 500 Its confined to its bed
When acid has been dropped on any |
article Of clothing, liquid ammonia will |
kill the acid, and then, by applying chic |
reform, You viii restore the color in most |
cases.
Richelieu's remark, There's no such !
word as fail, should be modified to meet |
the present unpleasant times, so as to |
state about how many cents will be paid |
on the dollar
Steel plates are now made for covering |
ships Of war They shatter the projectile |
that strikes. and show in themselves no |
effect Of 1t, OF nothing more than dent |
They are much lighter than iron plates |
and less burdensome to the ship.
A French investigator has found that |
chluroform is decomposed in from two to |
i've days by the combined action Of sun |
hight and the air. In the dark the air |
does not affect 1t, and light produces no |
alteration when all oxygen Is excluded.
SO you think John is becoming great |
man IN the city, said farmer, speaking |
of ms absent son to a companion of the |
youth. Great man! / should say So |
Why there amt a bar keeper in the city |
hardly that he don't call by his first name
The best proportions for bronze seem to !
be fifty five parts copper, forty three of |
zinc, and two OF tin. When so formed the |
color is good the grain close, and to ex
treme solidity and hardness it unites |
moderate ductility and takes an admira |
bic polish
Are you the judge OF reprobatesln said |
Mrs. Darlington. as she walked into an |
office Of a Judge Of Probate Il am a |
Judge Of Probate, was the reply. well, |
that's ii, / expect quoth the old lady |
you see my father died detested, and he |
left several little infidels, and want to |
be their executoner"
Cyanide of potassium" Will remove all |
ndehble ink whose base Is nitrate of sill |
yer Being a deadly poison, it will be |
hard 20 get from the druggists in most |
cities. TUrpentine or alcohol rubbed in |
hot, removes the new inks, using soda and |
soap freely in hot water afterward.
The Countess GuiccioG tells Of Lord |
Byron's once buying a goose for Michael |
mas. and fearing it was too lean, feeding |
1t himself till he grew so attached to it he |
couldn't have it killed; he had cage
made for it to hang under his carriage !
and four years after was travelling about |
with four geese.
4 mountain explorer Just returned from
Asia states that during a four months
residence at a height of more than $1,000
feet above the sea his pulse, normally
sixty three beats per minute, seldom fell
below 100 beats per minute, and his respi-
rations were often twice as numerous as
at ordinary levels.
4 writer in scientific monthly asks
What is the meter?" In reply, jocular
editor said An opinion has long prevailed
that a meter IS a continuance that works
p hours a day, eight days a week, the year
round. and, when you resolve to economic
in the use Of gas, il throws in a couple of
extra heurs daily without charge"
Rheumatism plays havoc with some of
the female members of European royalty.
The Empress Of Austria suffers severely
from 1t, and has to so again to Amsterdam
% undergo DR.. Metzger's treatment. The
late Princess Alice was a martyr to this Ill,
and SO is Princess Beatrice. now about to
be married.
Russia and France are backing the Sui
tan Of Turkey against Italy The Portes
preparations to mobilize the fleet for the
purpose Of sending an expedition to Mas
sowah have been checked. This is reported
10 be due to a warning from England that
the Turkish fleet would not be permitted
70 enter the Suez Canal
The Government has instructed the
British authorities at Hongkong to relax
the regulations Of the Foreign Enlistment
Act, SO as to permit the French men-of-
war TO coal and repair in the ports under
English control. upon condition that the
French squadron exercises the right of
search without OBTAINING English vessels.
4 new building material--a mixture of
cork. silica and ime-is coming into ex-
tensive use in Germany. 1t has the
advantage Of keeping out heat and cold,
and is also claimed to be an excellent pre-
ventive Of damp and deadener Of sound.
1t Is substantial, light and durable, and
seems to be especially adapted for ceilings
and wall Innings.
The paper bottles now made in Paris
are built up out Of sheets Of paper some
what after the fashion of rocket cases. but
the cementing material Is mixture of
blood -albUmeu. lime and alum Neither
water nor alcohol has any action on such
bottles, and 1t is expected that they will
prove OF great value to travellers, as there
Is but little fear OF breakage.
In the port of Liverpool there are now
laid M q steam vessels. representing a
tonnage of 69.000 tons. as against 10, re
presenting tonnage of 1900 tons, at the
corresponding period of last year. thus
showing an increase of "a steamers and
$1,000 tonnage laid up in these docks.
The distress among the Liverpool seamen
and dock laborers Is very acute.
II Is stated in the North British Agrieultg
rist that three of the men who were en-
gagged to slaughter cattle suffering from
fo6t-and mouth disease, and belonging to
Mr.. w. f. Webb, of Newstead Abbey,
have contracted the disease by holding
their knives in their mouths. An applca-
ton was. It is said, made to the Lords in
Council to know whether the men were TO
be isolated or slaughtered
Grandpapa trying to be seyereE Now,
Mabel. tell Inc why you didn't put that
quarter 1 gave you into the plate at church
this morning. / like to see little girl
give cheerfully and not let her right hand
know what her left hand doeth. lncor-
rigible granddaughter lwho IS saving the
money FOR candy)-~That's just the trOu-
bic. grandpa My right hand thought my
left was putting II in, and my left hand
thought my right was, and so between the
two Of them It didn't get put in at all. J"
The effect OF a safety valve IN the lower
nart Of the boiler has been tested in Eng
land A boiler was prepared with the
ordinary safety valve, and an additional
one attached to the lower part, both
equally secured Heated to redness the
bidler had cold water pumped into 1t and
in minute pressure OF between nIty
and sixty pounds was produced The
lover safety valve was the first to act CIV
ing entire satisfaction to the experiments,