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

The Advertiser, evidently in reply
to a paragraph in this column on
Saturday, represents the date as
being one of the most flourishing
products of our soil. We have been
told that the fruit here does not ma
ture well and is comparatively value
less, but if warm saline water, as
our former paragraph intimated, is
the main condition, we cannot sec
why the date should not be produced
here rs an article of profitable ex-
port.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
Counting the Hals.s Of the Heas.

TO number the hairs of your head
Is not d very difficult task" the REIN
er of The New York assay Office said
to a reporter. "A very close approx
nation can be made by weighing the
entire amount of hair on d mans head,
and then Weighing asingle hair. The
weight Of the former divided by that
of the latter will, of course, give the
desired number. II you will pluck
out a hair from your beard I can show
you.
A long and straggly n was accord
ingly detached, the refiner put it on d
scale, which was enclosed in q glass
and graduated with extreme ac
curacy. With little weights of alumni
mum he piled up one arm, until an
equipose was reached. The hair
weighed three milligrammes. If yoa
reduce this 10 figures he said, sit
would require 5000 hairs to weigh an
ounce, and surprising you have six
ounces, sou have Al. 900 hairs.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
Deeps and Sh0lyo,gs.

"TheshalloWsm urmur, but the deeps
are dumb"
And do you known, to put a new
Interpretation ON an old bit of wisdom,
that is why we love the shadows. We
stroll beside the broad, deep. voiceless
river. There is no song in all the silent
stream. Its bosom bears the fleets. OF
commerce; shaliop and steamer and
raft drift down its silent current to
the sea. By dock and slip and bending
willow sweep its noiseless waters. But
when we reach the winding brook,
singing over the white, shining peb.
bies, murmuring around the messy
rocks, whispering through the swaying
reeds. we sit down and listen, and the
music and charm of its incessant bah.
Die drive away every care and every
thought of sorrow and trouble. Who
is it that said the music OF running
water produces in us a mild insanity
or something like that? True it is,
sthe shadows murmer, but the deers
are dumb and SO we love the shall
lows.
Yes. my SON.. yes. That is perhaps
the reason why 50 many people love
you. BY and by you will be older
you will become deep. Then they will
hate you.-Bugdette.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19

%taneously with the milkman. Or
opening the door she saw her husband
white with rage.
MADAME" he said, sternly. you
have been absent all night"
Yes" responded Mrs. Schneider,
coolly: "the ball did not break up until
the sma' hours anent the twa.'"
Mr.. Schneider was already very
much exasperated, but s~pringing that
old gag upon him aroused him to a
perfect frenzy.
DO you know" he said in a hoarse
voice, smashing the water pitcher to
smithereens, that you have been out
prowling around every night for a
week, while ! have been confined to
the house by myself"
Henry, | am very much surprised
at your language"
"You are surprised. are you? Do
you suppose / am going to. stand this
any longer?"
IF I were a married man." said
Mrs. Sahmelzer, II would think it
very natural that my wife should 60
where she likes it best. If you are
displeased. you should address me in a
different tone. You should endeayor
E-
to make home pleasant for me-"
"Whatl' exclaimed Mr.. Schneider.
"Make my homo agreeable to me-"
replied Mrs. Schneider. ''and perhaps
Ill stay in more than I do"
"But you didn't have a sprained
ankle" i%nterposed the astounded hus-
band.
THAT is so; but a woman is tied up
in the house the whole year around,
as much as you have been for the last
week or SO with that sprained ankle"
$50 you are playing for even?'
"Just SO. / hateI to do it. 1t
almost broke my heart to treat you
with such apparent neglect, but !
only wanted to make you appreciate
what had gone through" :.
Emma, come to my arms. Take
not to sit down on that ankle. 1
was wrong and Ill WI up"
"That is all / want. | will not go
out until you are we'll"
And then when | go out you shall
go along with me, as is right and
proper"
And he kept his word.-From the
German In Texas Strings.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
Valuable seasCeed.

If you were to travel from the icy
shores of Alaska to the summer skies
and shining seas around the island of
Java, you would find a seaweed of
great value to the people of China
1t grows on the rocks above which the
birds called salanganes make the nests
that are so highly priced for Chinese
soups. These rocks are caIcareous.
The waves are never still at their feet
even when the sea is tranquil The
action of the water has worn holes and
caves in the rock clear to the top. In
these cavities the birds by the million
build their nests. They seem to seek
the places where the sea RACES most
iercely. lowering in countless
thousands around the rocks, they dash
into the thickest spray seeking their
food on the foaming wave crests, only
to appear again among the rainbows
that form above the waters. In the
boiling waves they find the seaweed
know as plocaria tenas, and from it
take the gelatine with which they
build their nests.
The Japs. wiser than the Chinese,
make their own birds nests by boiling
the gelatine Of the weeds, and, run
ming it into the forms of yermicelle,
use it for soups as the birds nests are
used, and export large quantities to
other countries, where it sells as imi-
tation birds nest. The genuine birds
nest sells as high as SIS a pound.
The Chinese. however, import q similar
weed, from which they extract the
juice in the form of a glue. It is
used for q variety Of purposes, but
chiefly in place Of glass, to form, with
the aid Of bamboo slots, tile queer
little lozenge-shaped windows Of their
houses. They make lanterns of it,
and use il as glue generally, not for
getting to mix a little of it as sizing
with the silks they sell to the Western
barbarians.-Ne0 York San.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
Varieties of EOti0ae.

Sir John Lubbock says in Popular
Science Monthly In the words of
the same author, s'The leaves of the
heritage at our feet take all kinds of
strange shapes, as if to invite us to
examine them. Star-shaped, heart
shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped,
fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, ser
rated, simulated, Gin whorls, in tufts,
in sgspires. in wreaths, endlossly
expressive, deceptive. fantastic, never
the same from footstalk to blossom,
they seem perpetually to tempt our
watehfulness and take delight in out
stripping II wonder"
Now, why is this marvellous variety,
this inexhaustible treasury of beauti-
full forms? Does it result from some
innate tendency of each species? Is
it Intentionally designed to delight the
eye of man2 or have the form, and size,
and texture some reference to the
structure and organization, the habits
and requirements, of the whole plant?
= = : In talking the subject over
with friends. / have found a widely
prevalent idea that the beauty and va
riety of leaves are a beneficient ar
rangement made specially with refer
ence to the enjoyment and delight of
man. ] have, again, frequently been
met by the opinion that there is some
special form, size, and texture of leaf
inherently characteristic of each spe.
cies ; that the cellular tissue tends to
"crystallize," as it were, into some
particular form, quite irrespective of
any advantage to the plant itself.
Neither of these will, l think, stand
the test of careful examination.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
WorEfsgnaess.s Wages.

In England the average weekly
wages of various mechanics was as fol.
lows in 1884:-A bricklayer got 1856.
a plasterer $3.50, a mason $Z.68, a gas
filter, 1856, a carpenter $7.66, a plumb.
er $3.50. a slater $40, atinsnIith 81. Sc,
a tailor $40. a cabinetmaker S7.68,
a baker $6.17. a blacksmith $7.37, a
butcher IS. SO, q cooper $50. a print.
Ell SILT, an engraVer, 1888 and a
horseshoer 1862.
In Germany a bricklayer got s4.2I,
a plasterer SAB, a mason $4.67. a gas.
filter $4.08. q carpenter SAIL, a plumb.
err 1926, a slater S4.2O, a tinsmith
$3.50, q tailor $3.41. 4 cabfnetamaker
$4.25. a blacksmith 81, a butcher So 81
q cooper 1897, an engraver
$5.12, a millwright $4.l8. a sail
maker S2.85. a cutler $500, a brass
founder s4.38 and a h~orseshoer 1851.
These are the averages for Aneri-
ca:-A bricklayer in New York got
$40, q mason SIS, q plasterer SIS. a
slater S14, a plumber SIG, a carpenter
$14, a blacksmith SIS, a bockbinder
$14. an engraver SIG, a printer s13, a
cabinetmaker $12, a halter SIS and .
farnessmaker $l2. In Chicago the
averages were considerably higher. A
bricklayer there earned $24 q week.
NeU York Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
Buying yzNN PUpe,.a.

#& - :
Light papers make a dark, dingy
room much more cheerful; large fig.
ures make a small room look much
smaller and occasions much waste In
matching the figures. All low rooms
should be papered with striped paper,
having the stripes running up and
down, as it makes the room seem much
higher; subdned tints take off the
glare Of too many windows. The best
effect is produced by having a paper
with pattern and colors of a quiet tone
such as does not at once strike the eye.
on coming into the room. The papel
should relieve and set out the furni
ture that stands in front of it. not
tract attention from 1t,
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
stranae Plants off mafn


A Baltimore doctor furnished the
Herald of that city with an interest
ing account Of some strange plants
indigenous to India. The following is
al extract:
The doctor paused and drew from
his coat pocket a morocco case, opened
it and took out what looked like a
p~enny-cake of compressed yeast.
THAT he said. passing it over to his
friend for inspection, sis the dried
milk Of the madar plant. I brought
it back from India as a sovenir. The
plant grows in clumps by the paths in
the country, and bears a beautiful,
large, white waxen flower with a pink
center. The leaves when bound on
a wound or sore. affect a speedy and
miraculous cure. The milk exudes
plentlfully from the. leaves and dries
in hard cakes in the sun. The fellows
there have a way of pretending to
apply it to sores in the nose, and then
slyly nibbling little crumbs and
swallowing them. Sometimes they
cut a vein, and let the current of blood
absorb the milk. The effect is the
same in either case, and l can tell you
that when it gets into a mans anatomy
it creates the biggest kind of a circus.
Fits of dependency are followed by
spasms of jubilant i~ntoxication:
groans and signs. give way to
leers, chuckles and broad grins-
each spell lasting about fifteen min
utes. The influence of the drug ex-
tends over fully three hours. and in
that time there occurs usually not less
than q dozen of these Kaleidoscope
changes of temperament. Unlike our
lntoxicants, no reaction follows it's use,
nor is there any recollection of what
has happened. The madar milk is
sometimes mixed with powdered rut-
tee seed by assassins. who prick the
skin of their victims with a delicate
skeWer soaked in the mixture. and
leaves the fine point beneath the skin.
Death slips along ~painlessly and abso-
iutely imperceptibly. no trace of the
cause being left on the skin, or in the
blood or stomach. All the doctors and
coroners in the country might EXAM
inc the body in vain. They wouldn't
know any more when they stopped
than they did when they began. There
is q plant called the wild gania, which,
when dried and habitnally smoked,
causes kleptomania. The smoking is
attended by dreams and visions SINH
lar 10 those produced by the use of
opium. 1t is also drank as q tea, and
results frequently in imbecility. They
make a paste of tobacco leaves and
charcoal and smoke it, and eat the
dried leaves seasoned with damp quick,
lime. They are extremely fond of the
weed
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
An o,a-Basnionea scnoos.Master.

A hundred and fifty years ago,
among the German settlers of Penn
sylvania, there was a remarkable old
school master, whose name was Chris
topher Dock. For thrge' days he
taught school at a litNe place called
Skippack, and then for the next three
days he taught at Stafford.
Whenever n of his younger schol-
ars succeeded in learning his A B G.
the good Christopher Dock required
the father Of his pupil to give his son
a penny, and also asked his mother to
cook two eggs for him as a treat in
honor of his diligence. To poor child
rem in a new country these were fine
rewards. At various other points in
his progress, an industrious child in
one of Docks schools received a penny
from his father and two eggs cooked
by his mother. All this time he was
not counted a member of the school,
but only lis on probation. The day on
which a boy or girl began to read was
the great day. If the pupil had been
diligent in spelling, the master, on the
morning after the first reading day,
would give a ticket carefully written
or illuminated with his own hand.
This read: "Industrious-one penny
This showed that the scholar was now
really received into the school.
There were no clocks or watches;
the children came to school one after
another, taking their places near the
master, who sat writing. They spent
their time reading cut of the Tesla
ment until all were there. But every
one who succeeded in reading his verse
without mistake stopped reading, and
came and sat at the writing-table to
write. The poor fellow who remained
last on the bench was called Lazy
Scholar.
The funniest of Docks rewards was
that which he gave to those who made
no mistake in their lessons. He
marked a large o with chalk on the
hand of the perfect scholar. Fancy
what a time the boys and girls must
have had trying to &C home without
rubbing out this o ST. Nicholas.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
TIE Secret OF f1.e R,.ooI..


The silver brook is dancing light
All IN the golden sunshine bright;
Across the stones with moss bedights
Its curling eddies whirl and fight,
In many a lovely nook;
IT murTnuls with melodious flow
Among the lilies white as snow,
AS onward it doth singing go
Toward the mighty sea below;
Thus ripples the brook.
Come to me, loyei The day is fair
And blossom scented is the air.
The flowers their choicest colors wear,
Ills beauty here and beauty there
Far as the eye can see;
Together LET us Joyous sing,
While sunny summertime doth brin
Fresh life and joy to everything,
For time, alas! is on tile wing;
Come, come, my love, to me
There's tender music in the sound
OF plashing waters all around,
AZ DER the pebbles light doth bound
So Light it scarce doth touch the ground
The overlapping brook.
Q love, each mellow, dulcet tone
Speaks 10 our souls, as here wo own
We for each other live alone;
The secret of our hearts is shown
And written in LIES book.
MI The Year Round.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
P00t. III Ge0Rrnnhna.

The member from Calabash rose with
mis- usual majestic dignity. gazed about
Kim sternIy for a moment to inspire
awe, as was his wont. and then, bend.
ing his gaze with piercing fxedness
upon the small ma from Blossom
County. he said, in q voice of deep
solemnity, with . long pause after each
utterance :
II know no North-no Scuth-no
East-no West
The member with hayseed in hi
hair was On his feet In an instant. and
isouted back, III reply 10 what he sup
posed had been addressed specially Il
him
Then III be blamed If you AIM
all-flred poor n geogaphyr -oaieag
Ledger.
Thirty sIlsves for ~ cents ii tic
talrbers prizes II India.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
SCRAPS

The Maxim gun, the wonder of
the day in London. seems to have
reached the maximum of speed-600
shots a minute.
Remains of gigantic birds lately
discovered in the Thames valley show.
according to Mr.. G. E. I. Newton, of
the London Geological Society, that
England IA once inhabited by birds
as large as the famous Moa, of New
Zealand, or much larger than the os-
triches now EXISTING.
Of at least a dozen fishes having
electric organs the electric eel of
South America is the most powerful.
1t reaches a length of six feet, and is
provided with a pair of batteries, eon
tanning some hundred minute nerve
supplied cells, which exhibit the same
phenomena as artificial batteries.
DIR. Chibret. q French o~culist, re-
ports to the Academic de Medicine
that, having been obliged to remove a
diseased eye from a young girl, he re-
placed it with one taken from a rab-
bit. At the time of his statement
fourteen days had elapsed, and the
eye had retained its vitality. and was
doing well.
The seeds of the Kola tree, the high
ly priced stimulant of the natives of
Africa, appear to possess qualities
which should give them a commercial
value in civilized countries. Mr.. T.
Christie, an English writer on new
commercial plants and drugs, asserts
that chocolate made with Kola paste
is ten times as nutritious as that made
with cocoa, and that a laborer can
work all day without fatigue on a sin
gle cup taken at breakfast time.
On a clear night about 5000 stars
are visible to the naked eye. A like
number in the opposite hemisphere
makes a total of about 5000 that can
be seen without a glass. These are
divided. according to their apparent
brightness, into six classes, 20 ranking |
as first magnitude stars. IS as second
magnitude, 200 as third. $50 as fourth, |
100 as fifth and about 1000 as sixth.
The telescope stars. unseen by the I'M
aided eye on account of their remote
ness, are classified as high as the four
teenth magnitude, and their number
is vastly greater, being reekoned as
high as 10000, DOC.
The photographic Office OF the Navy
has secured by means of
made by United States
naval vessels data respecting the di-
mansions and speed of deep sea waves.
The longest recorded wave measured
q half mile from crest TO crest, with a
period of % seconds. Waves having
length of 500 OF 600 feet and per-
Iods of ten to IL seconds are the ordi-
nary storm ave OF the North At
!antic. AS to the height of waves the
most trustworthy measurements show
Al to 48 feet to be a remarkable
Waves having a greater
than 80 feet are net commonly
encountered.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
Bathing i'm Warm Water.

III euA ~
Cleanliness is not only essential to
good health, but is a mark of good
breeding. The laborer in the field 10y
the clinging Of dust to his perspiring
person becomes a fit subject for the
bath-tub very frequently, and by all
means should take at least twice a
week a plunge in pure soft water, us
ing CASTLE soap and wiping dry with
a crash towel. Too frequent bathing
is weakening; WI would not advise
morning and evening baths as some of
the medical journals do, but a good
washing frequently, enough to keep
the person clean.
Warm baths are often the best REM
edies that can be used, as they will
prevent the most virulent diseases. A
person who may be in fear of having
received infection of any kind should
speedily plunge into a warm bath, suf-
fer perspiration to and then rub
dry; dress securely to guard against
taking cold.
II the system has imbibed any infec-
tious matter, it will certainly be re-
moved by resorting to this process, if
done before the infection has time to
spread over the system; and v if
some time has elapsed, the d%renching
pe%rspiration that may be induced by
hot water will be very certain to re-
move it.
In cases of congestion, bilious collie,
inflammation. there is no remedy more
certain to give relief. In cases of OBJ
stinate constipation. also, wonderful
cures have been wrought. For sore
throat, diptheria and Inflammation Of
the lungs a hot compress is one OF the
most potent remedies-Tribune and
Farmer.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN


Celery cures Rheumatism.
A German correspondent of an En-
glish paper writes as follows: II have
had a severe attack of indammatory
rheumatism, and was healed in two
days time by soup made of the stalks
and roots of celery, therefore | desire
to make this simple remedy known
through the columns of your valuable
paper for the benefit of all suffering
from govt or rheumatism of any form.
New discoveries-or what claim to be
discoyeries-of the healing virtues of
plants are continually being made.
One of the latest is that celery is q
cure for rheumatism; indeed, it is as
serted the disease is impossible if the
vegetable be cooked and freely eaten.
The fact that it is always put on the
table raw prevents its therapeutic
powers from being known. The celery
should be cut into bits, boiled in water
until soft, and the water drank by the
patient. Serve warm with pieces of
toasted bread, and the painful ailment
will soon yield. Such is the declara-
ton of a physician who has again and
again tried the experiment, and with
uniform success. At least two-thirds
of the cases named heart disease are
ascribed to rheumatism and its agon-
izing ally, govt. Smallpox, so much
dreaded, is not half so destructive as
rheumatism, which, it is maintained
by many physicians, can be prevented
by obeylng Natures laws in diet.
Here, in Germany, we boil the roots
and stalks. us the root is the principal |
part of it, and afterward eat it as
with Gil and vinegar. ] received
such immediate benefit that | am anx-
lous to let all the rheumatic sufferers
know of it,"
The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-19
He'd Done That Effssssexf

Husband, here's an item In the
paper about q poet who passes his time
communIng with nature, and works
40 slow that hs often spends Il whole
day on 4 single line. Wonderful ism
it
Nav. ! sometimes do that nj
SELF
~Kong What line dd YOU
spend i vga0la day ID
is1linss be confsachleag
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