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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-05

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Theory of American Storms.

Professor Colbert explains the origin
of great storms that move across our
country from the Rocky Mountains to
the Atlantic seaboord on this theory:
The moist air from the Pacific,
driven up the west slope of the Rock
les by the rotation of the earth, is
suddenly deprived of it's moisture in
cooler altitude. This drying of the
air causes changei in specific gravity,
and the disturbance produced at once
results in q slight rotary current.
The revolving mass of air moves on
ward toward the east, its motion and
size constantly increased by the suck
ing in of warm south winds on it's for
ward edge. These currents from the
south drop their moisture from con-
tact with the colder revolving storm,
and the sudden Tightening of the air
by the dropping of it's moisture works
like stream on mill wheel.
Thus the real cause of our great
storms lie in the conditions met by
these travelling whirlwinds in their
regular journey across the country.
If they are cold enough and meet with
enough moist, hot air in their course
they are set spinning with velocity
that makes cyclonic storm.-Chicago
Journal.
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Men and Women With H0rns.

Horny excrescences arising from the
human head have not only occurred
in this country, but have been fire.
quently reported by English surgeons
as we'll as those from several parts of
continental Europe. In the Imperial
Museum at Vienna, the British Mu-
scum at London aud the Vatican col
lection at Rome there are fine single
specimens or whole collections of these
curiosities. In an English local his
tory History of Cheshire) a wo nan is
mentioned who had been afflicted with
a tumor on her head for thirty-two
years. Finally it became greatly en-
larged and two horns grew out of it
after she was past seventy years old.
These wonderful horns, which are
each within fraction of eleven inches
long and nearly two inches across at
the base, are now in the famous Ions
dale collection in the British Museum.
In the annals of the French Academy
there is an account of one "Pietro le
Diblo," who had three fully developed
horns on his head; two as large as
those of a good-sized ram, one
behind each ear, and one straight one,
nine and half inches long, growing
from his forehead. st. Louis Repub-
lie.
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Polynesia, are south of the equator,
and between Samoa, or the Navigator's
Islands, and the Fiji group. The
Tongans bear strong resemblance to
the people of Samoa, and many of
their legends are the same, yet they
are not nearly 80 handsome people.
The Tongans have the art of max
ing beautiful mats, which they value
as highly as the Persian princes do
their richest prayer mats, and with
these they adorn the floors and walls
of their circular houses. In the few
settlements where white men are to be
found, the native men and women
wear clothes of European style, though
even these are confined to shirt and
trousers for the men, and sort of
cotton Mother Hubbard dress for
women. But away from the settle.
ments they still adhere to the costume
of their forefathers, and most becom-
ing it is.
The Tongans are very fond of orna-
ments, in which men, women and
children delight. One of the cheapest
and most effective is made from a
scarlet Towering creeper, which they
fasten with a most graceful effect
about the head, neck, arms and bust;
but the ornaments most valued are
earrings made from the ivorY-like
substance of the whales teeth. These
teeth are.from one to four inches in
length, and worn on strings like a
necklace.
Although there has not been a war
in Tonga for many years, yet'the men
make and carry arms, and all the
villages are fortified by means OF
palisades.
Formerly, whenever an old man got
so sick in Tonga that he could not
move, it was the custom for his
relatives and friends to carry him off
and bury him alive. The missionaries
and the English Government put an
end to this cruel practice; but. strange
to say, the people who most lamented
the abolition of the custom were the
old men themselves.
Fruit and fish are 80 abundant in
Tonga that hunger may be said to be
unknown, and as there is now no war,
and it does not require much work to
sustain life, the people give their
spare time, of which they have an
to games, sports and semi
religious festivals.
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Modern Unguents and Salyes.

Various elegant preparations have
superseded the coarse unguents and
salves of former times. 1t would be
impossible In our limited space to
give a just idea of the wonderful i'm
provements that have been made IN
this branch of pharmacy. Perhaps
one of the most notable improvements
is the preparation of an animal fat,
called lanoline, which is now used as
the basis of a large number of oint-
ments.
Unlike lard, which has generally
been employed for this purpose, 1t
never turns rancid; and it has the
valuable property of being readily
absorbed by the skin, and penetrating
with friction to its deeper layers;
therefore, it becomes most efficient
vehicle for conveying medicines
through the skin. When mixed with
mercury and rubbed into the pores, it
has caused the peculiar metallic taste
of the drug to be perceptible in the
mouth three minutes after its applica-
tion. In its impure crude form, this
fat was known to the ancient Greeks,
and employed by them in medicine.
being extracted from the wool OF
sheep. The chemist has now purified
it, and made it one of the most useful
agents that we possess for applying
medicines to the skin.-Chambers's
Journal.
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Sources OF the Diamond Supply.

Until the early part of the eight
eenth century, the famous Golconds
and other mines of India furnished
the worlds diamonds, but after that
time for long period the mines OF
Brazil became the great producers.
Both localities are now nearly ex-
hausted. Since the discovery of dia-
monds in South Africa in 1867, that
region has produced more diamonds
than the whole world during the two
centuries preceding, the total yield OF
these mines being estimated at some
100000 carats OF about eight tons,
the aggregate value of the uncut
stones being more than $3.50, 900, 600.
In single years the African yield has
exceeded 5000, 900 carats. Not more
than eight per cent. of this product it
is stated can be considered CT the first
water; about twelve per cent. is OF
the second water and twenty-five per
cent. is of the third water, while the
remainder is boart which is crushed
to powder and used for cutting hard
substances. This boart is distinct from
the uncrystalline carbonate which is
cutting agent several times more
valuable as obtained from the Brazil
ian mines. Diamonds have been found
also in the Urals and in Australia
while few small crystals have been
picked up in different parts of the
United States. A locality in New
South Wales is reported to have yield
ed $4,000 diamonds of which the
largest have been cut into gems,
weighing 81 and three carats respec-
lively. Atlanta Constitution.
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tion. biliousness, skin diseases, boils, carbun-
cles, piles, fstulas and maladies too numerous
to mention.
II people would pay more attention to
properly regulating the action Of their bow
els, they would have less frequent occasion
to call for their doctors services to subdus
attacks of dangerous diseases.
That, of all known agents to accomplish
this purpose, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are unequalled, is proven by the fact that
once used, they are always in favor. Their
secondary effect is to keep the bowels open
and regular, not to further constipate, as IS
popuiarity with sufferers from habitual con-
stipation, piles and Indigestion. -.
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premonitory symptoms. The patient
has a severe headache, and he shows
signs of stupor. After twelve hours
the glands of the neck. the armpits or
the groin begin to swell, and they soon
become as big as a hens egg. These
swellings are hard and exceedingly
tender, but they do not suppurate.
In some cases vomiting of blood oc-
ours, and within few hours the man
dies. Some few recover after having
been attacked, and if they can keep
themselves alive for more than Six
days after their exposure there is a
q chance for them. The disease seems
to be very infectious, and in those
quarters where it is raging it has more
than decimated the population. In
one small street the sanitary board OF
Hong Kong found thirty deaths, and
in another out of ITO people only forty
have survived. At one of the gates OF
Canton a man took a box the other
day and dropped cash into it every
time coffin was carried out. At a
o'clock in the afternoon he counted
the cash and found he had ITO in the
box.
The disease is very sudden in its at
tacks, and the only safety from ii
seems to be to get out of its range.
For weeks the people have been flying
from Canton, and letter which 1 saw
the other day states that every house
seems to have it's dead. A few days
ago thief entered house in which
the whole family had died Of the
plague, expecting to have an easy
haul. He was stricken while in the
act of robbing the dead. and day OF
two later his body, with the booty up
on it, was found lying in the house.
A curious thing about the plague is
that it affects some kinds of animals as
well as men, and in Canton it attacked
the rats of the city first. Dead rats
were found in the drains of the in
fected quarters, and the rats ran from
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or four times q year they deem them
selves happy, It is not uncommon to
find 100 people living in little nest
of dozen one-story houses, and rents
per family range from 50 year and
upward. Canton is the only city I
have visited where have found cat
and dog restaurants, and it is the
only city where have seen dried rats
exposed for sale in many quarters. 1
priced some of these rats and was
charged five cents for the one I bought.
It could not have weighed more than
eight ounces, and I suppose I paid
double price for it. At one of the
dog restaurants I treated a lot of
coolies to a stew of black dogs flesh,
and the price of it was ten cents plate.
T could have gotten stew of yellow
dog for less, but when one gives a
treat, even in China, he ought to buy the
best. Black dogs meat is worth twice
the price of that of the yellow canine.
1t is cooked with tuft of the hair
left on the end of the tail to show the
color of the dog, and it looks, when
in the pot, much like the flesh of
sucking pig. The dog is killed and
the hair is taken off as we take the
bristles off of pig, and when stewed
it is cut into small pieces. At this
same place I saw cat meat cooking,
and there were cats in cages awaiting
the orders of customers. Cat meat is
higher priced than dog or rat meat,
and the tabbles are killed only upon
order. The people whom I saw at such
restaurants, however, were those only
of the poorer classes, and there are in
Canton as costly restaurants as you
will find anywhere in the world. 1
saw places where you have to pay SIS
plate for your birds nest soup, and
where tea is served which you can't
get for less than $40 pound.
The black plague, on account of the
poor diet of the people and their pow
erty, will last longer in Canton than it
would in an American city. There are
practically no facilities for taking care
OF the SICK, and Chlnese meulclne Is
worse than no medicine. The mis-.
sionary hospital will do much. 1t is
one of the best hospitals in the East,
and it does great deal of good. The
chief Chinese charitable institutions Of
Canton are blind asylum, from which
blind beggars go out day after day
over the city founding asylum, sup
ported out of the salt tax, and leper
asylum. Thisla last is in banyan grove
two miles from the gate Of the city.
It contains about five hundred inmates,
and more horrible creatures do not
exist on the face of the earth. There
are more lepers in Canton than can be
accommodated in the asylum, and
there are leper boats filled with these
people, who scull or row their boats
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ly esteemed, as they make nice ap-
pesrance when dressed. They ha re 4
lighter colored skin, with a pinkish
tinge, which is very attractive. The
flesh is white and juicy.
White Hollands have clear white
plumage, though during summer, like
other white fowls, they become more
or less yellow. The bills and feet are
yellowish color. They are good lay
ers and excellent mothers, generally
mating quite early. They are not con-
sidered so hardy as the bronze and
some other varieties, and not so COM
monty seen.
The white Holland is much larger
than the common white turkey, with
which it should not be confounded.
It traces it's origin to the Nerther.
lands and Belgium, and is sometimes
termed the Flemish. It's feathers are
very valuable, as they possess the soft
ness of the down Of geese.-New York
World.
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named How Qua, who is said to be
worth his tens of millions, and in
riding up to Canton on the steamer I
saw hungry-eyed boatman greedily
grab at dead rat which was thrown
him from our ship, and which I doubt
not furnished the piece de resistance
Tor his family dinner. It is from the
Cantonese province that most of the
Chinese in America come, and it's peo-
pie are noted for their turbulence as
we'll as for their skilled hands and
their sharp business brains.
! have never seen anywhere such q
beehive of humanity as the city of
Canton, and I can imagine no place
better for the dissemination of a
plague like this. The streets are so
narrow that the big hats which the
coolies wear almost Craze the walls on
either side, and you can stand in the
middle of some of the best business
quarters and touch the walls on both
sides by stretching out your hands.
The main streets fairly swarm with
Chinese men and women, and half of
these Celestial humans are loaded.
They crowd and push against each
other as they work their way through
the city, and the disease germs if pos
sessed by one are easily communicated
to many. They pack themselves to-
gether in the houses, and the popula-
tiou of small city is crowded into a
single block. The poorest Of them
have only O few cents day for the
support of their families, and ten of
our cents is a good wage for days
work. Agricultural laborers about
the city do not receive more than five
cents day, and women are paid still
less. The average workingman who
Gun save SIS a year is doing very we'll,
and the question with the majority OF
the people is one of existence.
The diet of the laboring classes con-
sists of salt fish, vegetables and rice.
and if they can add to this meat three
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Aluminium Watches.

The latest fad of the Partisan swells
is the aluminium timepiece. They are
very light in weight, but trifie more
than the works. The cases are in a
dull black color-very effective. Some
are open faced, some are open in a
small three-quarter-inch disk in the
center. with small gilt hands on the
black face of the watch, but they are
in all sorts of inlaid decoration in
colorings, and the best of it is they
are very reasonable in price.
It is the custom at the gay capital
for the gentry to carry this timepiece
in the right hand trousers pocket
along with the keys, coin, matchbox
and other paraphernalia of the mascu-
line pocket. 1t is, moreover. the wont
of the owners to rush the hand down
in the pocket with great show of un.
perturbability and bring forth the
watch, of which the material is un.
scratchable, from among the other
articles, glance at the time and care
lessly replace it with an air of cer-
tainty in its 'infallibility. -Clothier
and Furnisher.
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seem advisable that the greatest care
be taken to keep it out of America. It
is thought here that the disease cannot
get firm hold of any quarter which
has good sanitary arrangements, and
so far, Ibelieve, only Asiatics have been
afflicted with it. It has attacked
Hong Kong. The Japanese papers
had reports that there were one or
two deaths in different parts of Japan,
but these reported have since been
denied. The Japanese are much bet
ter prepared to suppress such a
plague, should it break out, than is
China. They are the cleanllest peo-
pie in the world in regard to their
persons, and their towns and houses
are models of neatness. China is the
flthiest and nastiest country on the
face of the globe, and outside of the
treaty ports there are no means of
enforcing sanitary measures There
are drains in some of the cities, but
these are flushed only by the rains,
and it is said that one cause of the
rapid spread of the plague in Canton
was the prolonged drought which has
afflicted the city this spring.
The fact that the plague exists in
Canton makes it's danger greater than
it would be had it broken out in any
other city of China. Canton is the
New York of the empire. 1t is the
biggest of the Chinese business cities,
and it contains something like 3,000,-
600 of people. Its boat population is
said to number more than 300, 900,
and as many people as you will find in
Washington, Cleveland, Buffalo or
Cincinnati are born, live and die upon
its waters. Its people are the bright
est in China, and they are the best
traders and the best workers among
the celestials. They will command
higher wages than the Chinese from
any other cities, and you find Canton
men engaged in business all over
China. I met them in Hankow, /
found them on the busiest streets of
Chinklang and Marking, and here in
Peking they own some of the best
property, and are engaged in all sorts
of undertakings. A great part of our
imports come from Canton, and the
credit of the big Cantonese merchants
is as good as that of the most solid
Americans in the banks of London. 1t
is city of millionaires and paupers,
and it contains the richest and the
poorest of the Chinese. When Wis
tied it, not long ago, I was entertained
by the Jay Gould of China man
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of merchants sell nothing else but
silver and gold paper, which is bought
by the families of the dead and is
burned by them over the graves, with
the idea that this will supply them
with funds for their travels in the
next world. Paper and wooden COWS
and horses are manufactured to be
burned in the same way, and the dealers
in white goods will be getting rich.
White is the color of mourning in
China, and the family when they re-
pair to the cemetery wear clothes of
white tied on with coarse rope. They
leave food at the graves and generally
send an extra suit of paper clothes
along to keep the corpse warm when
it becomes ghost.
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SCENE IN CANTON.

such places almost as fast as the
human species. In every house where
dead rats were found it was seen that
the people had taken the black
plague, and the sign of dead rat will
now cause a family to fly.
The Hong Kong doctors at first said
that the disease was not of parasitic
nature and that it could not be car
ried to any great distance; but this is
thought by many to be mistake, and
it is now said that it's germs can be
transported in clothing and in other
ways, and the Japan Mail is advising
the most rigid sanitary precautions
against all of the Hong Kong steam
ers.. In one editorial it asserts that
even a shotgun quarantine would be
justifable against it, and when it is
remembered that every ten days big
steamship from Hong Kong lands at
San Francisco and Vancouver it would
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among the other craft on the river
begging.
There are no more superstltlous
people than the Chinese, and such al
occasion as this brings out all of the
sooth-sayers. hear that the
streets of Canton are now filled with
priests exercising the imps of the
plague and that the people go through
the city in bands beating gongs and
drums to drive the demons away. At
the head of one band was boy who
had Oh a hideous dragon mask, and
the dragon boats which are kept for
the annual dragon boat festival have
been brought out. All sorts of pray
ing goes on before the different iosses
and the ancestral tablets, and every
one connected with the burial of the
dead is making money. A large class
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dispensary alone 1000 cofins have been
given away, and it is estimated that
ND to this time $4,000 coffins have
been furnished by such associations.
The sanitary board of Hong Kong
visited the plague-stricken parts of
Canton some weeks ago, and made q
report on the disease and It's symp-
toms. It comes upon one without
warning in the shape of fever, which
raises the temperature of the patient
in short time to 105 degrees and up
ward. There is no chill and no other
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Turkish Agricultural Progress.

Turkey has already one superior
school of agriculture, TWO schools Of
practical agriculture, seven model
farms, veterinary school, and an ex-
perimental silkworm nursery. Ex-
pertinent fields have also been estab-
lished, and new seeds are distributed,
while encouragement is given to the
improvement of live stock. There is
also a national bank of agriculture
which lends money to farmers at low
rate of interest. Altogether it would
seem as though there were still con
siderable life in the sick man of Eu-
rope.-New York World.
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THE BLACK DEATH.
THE TERRIBLE PLAGUE RAG
ING IN CHINA.
A Look at Canton, With It's Mill
ions of People, In Plague
Times-Chinese Su-
perstition.

n LII China and the far East are
~ much excited over asterrible
NJ plague which has recently
broken out in the southern
provinces of this empire, writes Frank
s. Carpenter in letter from Peking.
It came originally from the interior,
but it has reached Canton and Hong
Kong, and the people are dying at the
rate of hundreds per day. The dis
ease is practically an unknown one to
the physicians of to-day, but it is said
to be the same as that which devastat-
ed Europe during the middle ages
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ASSIST NATURE

q little now ana Gnens
with q gentle, cleans
ing laxative, thereby
removing offending
matter from the stom-
ach and bowels, and
toning up and invigo.
rating the liver and
quickening its tardy
action, and you there
by remove the cause
of O rn,,ltitude of dis