The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-03-31

a stalwart young man at Leav-
onworth, Kan, recently accepted q
wager that he could not stand a
quart of water dropped into his
open hand, drop by drop, from a
hight of three feet. Before 500
drops had fallen into his hand he
almost cried with pain and said be
had enough. After a little water
had fallen each drop seemed to
crush his hand, and blister in the
center of it was the result.-Boston
Journal.
Astronomers agree upon three
motions of the earth-the rotation
on its axis in one day of twenty
four hours, the revolution around
the sun in one year of 1861 days,
and very slow gyratory motion
of the poles around the outside OF
line at right angles to the plane
of the ecllptic, and coinciding with
the line of axal rotation ut its CEN
ter in 25,S6S years.
A bright little Auburn girl, q
pupil in the Webster Grammar
School, asked her mother to help
her with q composition upon a
given subject recently. She sat
down to write and the mother be-
gan to dictate the composition as it
should go. "That's not what l
want at all, she exclaimed impa-
tiently. "You give me the facts
and / will embellish them"
Kansas politics seem to be in 4
very bad way indeed. They have
elected q judge who never read a
law book, q Congressman who
wears shoes but no socks, Sena-
tor who has been all things by
turn and nothing long, and now it
is reported that the man chosen for
State Printer was a member of the
Anarchist league of Chicago, which
when the Anarchist murderers were
hanged, dragged down q United
States flag and trampIed it under
foot.
By the provisions of DR.. Schlie-
mann's will, 4 mausoleum is to be
erected in Athens to contain his
remains and those of his Greek
wife and their two children. To
this second wife he left the anti
Duties in his houses at Athens,
while to his first wife, from whom
he was divorced q number Of years
ago, he bequeaths $4,000. Her
two children and the two of his
Greek wife share alike in the d.
vision of his property.
81 made q speech in my youth
in the Mohawk Valley" said
Chauneey II. Depew in the course
of q recent address, "when l was
frisky with aurora bOrealis and
rainbows. was depicting the pos
sibility of the ideal republic under
the principles of the party which [
loved, and when l concluded, an
old campaigner, an old-timer, an
old spokesman stepped up to me
and said 'Chauncey, that speech
had more frill than shirt.
1t Is astonishing by what narrow
margins some people escape making
large fortunes. 1t Is reported that
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell tried
again and again to persuade Senator
Don Cameron to buy one-half in
terest in his invention for $4,000.
Cameron thought Bell Z half-witted
dreamer, refused to put up a dollar,
and finally gave orders that Bell
should no longer be admitted to
his office. That half-interest to-day
would pay handsome interest on
$40, 100000. The Westinghouse
aIr-brake was hawked about the
country for $500 for the half-in-
terest, with no takers. By the
way. Edison has discovered a new
industry for women. In his shops
in New Jersey he has about a
dozen, whose duty it is to sing
songs, repeat poetry, and talk baby
talk into his photographic dolls.
1t is odd to think of plants as
seeing, but Mrs. Robert King des-
eribes an experience in India that
she regards as confirming her hus-
bands theory that creeping plants
have some faculty akin to sight
Mr.. King was seated with one foot
against a pillar, when q kind of
conVolvulus growing near was seen
to turn toward his leg, which was
then kept mOtionless until, at the
end of an hour, the tendrlls had
laid themselves over it. He then
went to breakfast, and on return
ing found that the plant had turned
away in disgust. A pole was pro-
cured and placed against the pillar
about q foot from the nearest sprays
of convolvulus, and in ten minutes
they had begun to curve toward it,
and in & few hours the tendriIs had
twisted quite around it. The pole
was on the side away from the