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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-14
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Hongkong and Yokohama to the above
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1t takes very cold weather to kill grow
ing wheat. The plant is hardy and thrives
when the temperature IL at the freezing
point
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To render an ordinary boarded floor the
rival Of hard wood one putty up each
board, then stain either mahogany, walnut
or ash. After It is dry varnish twice, and
fine polish will result.
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apply a god coat Of No. 8 p. and b.
Paint over the leaky spots; then take a
piece of stout Manila paper, or a piec 9
of common cotton cloth, paint 1t well on
both sides; lay it over the first coat, CIV
ing the whole a final coat, and theIe
will be no more leak there. Or IL the
whole gutter is bad, make it clean and
dry, and apply paste Of p. &IB. Paint
and Portland Cement.
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A well known woman's paper recently
announced q serial story, entitled "The
Prettiest Girl In Town" 1t appears that
over hundred young ladies wrote notes
to the editor and warned him not to use
their real names.
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The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16

but covered themselves with glory by con-
verting an almost certain disaster into
glorious victory.
After completing his term of service
Hosea Brown returned to his old home,
Smith and became the father OF two boys
and three girls. In 1925 he moved to Cat
taraugus County, New York, where he ar
rived in March, and after discharging his
obligations had Just Is cents for working
capital. Here he took up land and built
cabin. He cleared and cultivated land by
the light of the moon and during the day
worked for neigh bors. sometimes thresh-
ing grain with fail and receiving in pay
ment for his labor every tenth bushel.
But he prospered sufficiently to be con-
tent, and in this spot he lived for forty
years. Losing by death his entire family
his wife, the companion of his early
trials and hardships, dying in 1857-he
'went out to Missouri and for time
stopped in Worth County. Not having
any one to look after his little property,
in the centennial year he disposed of it
and moved to the home of his grandson,
Orr Brown. with whom he now lives.
At the last Federal election in 1892 the
old soldier was placed in chair, and, es-
corted by band of music, was carried to
the polls, where he cast his vote for Harri-
son. In politics he has never been any,
thing but Federalist. Wing and RepubIi-
can. While in the enjoyment of most ex-
cellent health he has not walked for over
three years. His mind is still vigorous
and his memory good, for he relates with
exactness many events that took place a
century ago, and he reads without glasses.
A most remarkable thing has happened
to him during the past year. His hair,
which up to that period was silvery white,
began to turn, and it has since become as
black as it was in his early manhood.
Under the original pension law made
for the benefit of all surviving soldiers of
the war of 1912 he received $S per month,
which was increased by the act of March
10. 1886, to $12. BY special act of Con-
gress on March 8, 1891, he was granted a
pension of $40 per month by reason of ex-
treme old age, and on the 21st of March,
1895, through the efforts of Congressman
Binger Hermann, his pension was
further increased to $50 per month. As
Hosea Brown is the oldest surviving sol
dier in the United States, the clerks of the
Pension Office take especial pleasure in
preparing his voucher and remitting the
amount due him quarterly before any
other payment is made. Thus this more
than centenarian, nearly thirty-fve years
after passing the "three score and ten" of
allotted life, finds himself surrounded by
relatives and friends, who tenderly admin
;etnr RI his cOm fort while Oratnfl1i Cow.
ernment is not unmindful of his pas
services in its defense, but literally fur
nishes the means whereby its oldest sur
viving soldier may have an abundance to
make comfortable his last days of life.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16

graphophone is an Intermediary. When
a stenographer comes in with book of
notes he sits down in front of machine,
the most striking portions of which are
revolving cylinder and mouth trumpet
at the end of a flexible tube. The revolv-
ing cylinder is covered with gelatine, so
sensitive that it will faithfully record and
reproduce all the infections and enuncia-
tions possible to the human voice, the
only limit being that the speed must not
be so great that the enunciation fails of
distinctness. The stenographer reads his
notes into this machine at speed OF from
$50 to 200 words per minute. Then he
turns the cylinders over to the custody of
the typewriter. The last-named places
the cylinders in rotation in another ma
chine and applies ear-trumpets to
his ears. The cylinders are made to
revolve, and as he sits at the machine the
typewriter has the dispositions spoken as
directly into his ears as if ne were in the
room where they were taken. He hears
every question and every answer verbatim.
He has brake by which the speed of the
revolving cylinders may be regulated. He
has no notes to decipher. His function Is
to listen and to work the typewriter at
top speed. This is the way the Fair depo-
sitions are speeded to the attorneys and
others interested in the case.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
The Real DISCOVERIES
Of Silver in Nevada
Chapter Prom Pioneer History Concerning
Two Prospectors Who qarnered
Not the Fruits Of Jheir Find

brothers, managed to keep soul and body
together in this forlorn little Mexican town
until about the middle of July the bark
Olga of Boston took them aboard on pay
ment of what money they had, permit
ting them to work out the rest in stern
sea fashion, before the mast. This
brought them to San Francisco, August
80. lS49.
After the Grosh brothers reached San
Francisco one of them was long very i'll;
the other obtained work in a store and
took care of him. His letters during the
last four months of 1S49 give most realistic
pen-pictures of pioneer San Francisco.
The town was built of rough boards and
fog-stained canvas; the streets were un-
paved and nearly impossible after the
rains began gambling houses abounded;
shooting and stabbing were matters of
daily occurrence. The prices charged by
the storekeepers were source of shocked
amazement. Potatoes were 50 cents a
pound, onions 81 % pound, and cost of
other vegetables was "only limited by
the conscience of the dealers and the
means of the buyers" Eggs brought
Sc per dozen; sweet potatoes and squashes
sold for from 81 80 to S. apiece. Plain,
common farm boots brought $32 and better
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16

songs, and the bucks sing, too, when they
can't do anything more noisy.
Uncle Sam tries hard to keep his cop
perry children from imbiDing whisky dur
ing the fiesta, but whisky is one of the
diversions of Los appetite during the red
letter DAYS. Marriages are common soon
after the fiesta, and many an old fellow
with colony of fifty to eighty descendants
points to some far-off fiesta as the begin
ming of all his woe.
At San Luis Rey the white man goes
and looks upon his dancing, bowling
brother and ponders upon his ways. At
Temecula the dances are not so public,
but they attract all the people in the
neigh borhood. The eastern savant would
walk ten miles to hear the monotonous
songs and see the young bucks dance and
caper. while the rancher living in the
radius of the red brothers forage-ground
would gladly swap the whole fiesta for the
return OF the fatted calf or the glad bark
of his vanished yellow pup. But the red
brother smells the thick clouds of steam
rising over the caldron of soup and dances
before the lico-bedizened females who
SQUAT cross-legged and roll cigarettes in
the ardent sun.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
NOVEL WHY TO
GET RID OF STREET
BEGGHRS.

There is gentleman of this City who is
so fortunate as to be able to converse in
several languages besides English, and
has the remarkable faculty of speaking
each without an accent foreign to that
language; in fact, his accentuat1on of the
language he chooses is so perfect that he
is frequently mistaken for native of the
country in which the language is the
mother tongue. He has adopted a novel
way of Kidding himself of the i'm portunities
of the professional striker. When he is
stopped or approached by one of the class
he talks to the fellow in foreign tongue
and it is not long before the opportunities
cease.
A few days since this gentleman was
on Kearny street when tall specimen OF
the mendicant class, whose breath was
strong with the fumes of liquor, stepped
up to him and asked for a dime to get a
meal.
"Que voulez-vous?" politely asked the
gentleman turning toward the fellow.
The beggar looked amazed for a mo-
ment, but he repeated his question and he
received another retort in French from
the gentleman, who moved on about his
business, but the fellow followed him and
after repeating his demand half dozen
times without producing the desired
effect, he exclaimed in disgust, "WhAt in
thunder is the matter with you? l can't
understand word you say" Then in a
moment he added, Say, you old bIoke,
what are you doing in this country. any
how, If you can't talk English ?"
The gentleman has tried this dozen
times or more of late, and as he has not
been annoyed by one of these begg ars for
more than week, although he has passed
many of them, he has come to the concIu-
sion that "de gang is onto hlm" and will
let him alone in future.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
One Of Six Survivors
Of the War Of 1912
Hosea Browns E1entfu Career Of More
Than Century--Jhe Story
Of His Life

The men or women now living at the
age of "a years were in their cradles or in
their nurses arms when the war of 1912
com menced. And there are very few of
any age now living who have any distinct
recollection of the events that took place
during our second war with Great Britain.
How much more remarkable then must
the fact seem when the statement is made
that there are five or six actual partici-
pants of that war still surviving and regu-
larly in receipt of pensions from the
United States.
Among this latter number is Hosea
Brown. now residing near Grants Pass,
Or. He was born July Is. 1892, in the
town of Westmoreland, Cheshire County,
N. H., and is now in his one hundred and
fifth year. His father was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War and was wounded
in one of the early engagements near
Boston. Hosea was one of thirteen chill
dren and comes from a long-lived race,
two of his brothers having reached the
ages of 80 and SO years. His early educa-
tional advantages were limited according
to the appointments of a century ago.
From the time he was years of age and
for period of ten years after he
attended the ordinary loghouse school
three months during the winter
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16

An honorable exception to this ignoble
fight was the command to which Hosea
Brown belonged. 1t stood with unhinch-
ing courage, maintaining its position and
blazing away at the hated enemy with good
effect. But our smaller force was gradually
made weaker by losses and, wearied
by constant efforts to stand their ground,
was compelled to at last fall back and
take refuge IN some log barracks. Their
position here was extremely hazardous,
and it appeared that the enemy's des-
perate efforts to dislodge them would soon
prove successful unless relief came. In
this emergency General Brown attempted
to rally the fugitive militia by sending out
messengers informing them OF the enemy s
repulse. This stratagem had its desired
effect, and several hundred were collected
and formed in broken lines mile or
more from where the engagement was
still raging. Here General Brown ad-
dressed them, loading them with re-
proaches for their lack of courage and de-
claring he would have every one shot if
they further failed in their duty. His
manner awed them, and they asked to be
led into the fight This was done, and
more than 200, led by intrepid officers,
gallantly attacked the enemy, and by their
heroism not only redeemed themselves
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
How to Live to Great Age.

The latest fad in England is to insure
longevity through the use of a special diet.
The promise is held out to those who i'm
plicitIy follow out the prescribed regimen
that they may attain to the age of ITO
years. This, among the most melancholy
people of the globe and to whom one
would fancy that life were the less worth
living, has aroused considerable enthusi-
asm. Cooks and kitchens are to be abol-
isned, meats, bread and vegetables are for
hidden; existence is to be main
tanned exclusively upon nuts and ba-
nanas. If we compare this with
the dietary system of Dick kens, which
represents that of his period. his
comparatively carly decease will excite no
surprise. According to English standards
he was an accomplished gastronome.
Beefsteak pudding was his ideal, horri-
BILE concoction only fit for crude or de-
based palate. His highest conception of a
dinner was baked leg OF mutton with the
bone removed and the cavity filed with a
stuffing of oysters and veal This was ac-
com panied with gin punch. in the making
of which Dickens took especial pride. 1t
was made as follows: A brass kettle of
water was heated over a spirit lamp.
When the water came to boil it was
poured into Jug, with bottle of old gin,
Jumps of sugar and chips of lemon peel.
The mouth of the Jug was then closed
with napkin and the mixture allowed to
brew for certain number of minutes
New York Sun.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16

Forty-seven years ago to-day two young
men landed in San Francisco, unnoticed
members of the great gold rush, who,
nevertheless, deserve to be remem bered
by the entire Pacific Coast as the real
discoverers of the silver mines of Washoe.
Their experiences in San Francisco, in the
Californian mines and in Western Utah
(now Nevada) form very interesting
chapter of pioneer history, and have been
recently brought TO my mind by receiving
from Dr. r. NJ. Buckle, prominent Cana
dian physician, his manuscript narrative
of the adventures of these two prospectors,
the Grosh brothers.
Many old mining men and spectators
will recollect the excitement caused on the
Comstock when the heirs of the Groshes
laid claim to the ownership of large part
of the famous group of great mines on the
ground that those two pIucky Californian
prospectors had found and perfected their
titles thereto.
DR.. Buckles authority to speak for the
Grosh brothers is derived from his per-
sonal relations to them and their family.
He mined and prospected with them, or
near them, in Gold Canyon, and they
were on terms of mutual intimacy and
confidence. In his own words he took
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16

Canyon. One of these is a perfect mon-
ster." Their winters mining in Ell Do
RADIO was complete failure, and almost
penniless they toiled for the third time
across the great Sierra heights carrying
their scanty outfits A long letter, under
date of June s, describes with much detail
the progress OF their quartz discoveries,
giving a diagram which makes it seem
certain to one who has studied the subject
that they were really prospecting the
South End mines of the Comstock at Gold
Hill, or near it.
The half-interest grub-staker had not
yet developed on the Pacific Coast, but
what an opportunity these struggling
prospectors would have gladly given to
any San Francisco or Sacramento mer-
chants two years or more before the great
rush to Washoe and Comstock's famous
properties. "Our first assay writes Allen
Grosh in August, ''gave $500 in silver to
the ton." This seemed to them too good
to be believed. and they much preferred
another ledge which assayed $500 per ton.
The rest of the story of the Grosh broth
ers has become part of the mining his
tory of the Pacific Coast. In August, 1857,
Hosea wounded himself with a pick and
died from blood poisoning. Allen and his
friend Dr. Buckle attempted to cross the
Sierras late In the season, were caught in
the grip of winter, struggled on for days,
and finally, FROST bitten, crippled. reached
Last Chance camp in El Dorado. There
Allen Grosh died. His documents were
lost in the Sierras, and when the Com
stock was rediscovered and the great
Washoe excitement began his relatives
were unable to justify his claims in the
courts. But the fact remains, now gener-
ally recognized. that these two patient,
plodding, unfortunate Californian pros
rectors, the Grosh brothers, did really
find the silver of Nevada, though they
failed, through no fault of their own, to
reap the fruitage of their victory.
G. II. SHINN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
The Three JaiIors.
Three little tailors, to have good time.
Went to the tavern of Ingelheim,

Three little tailors, to have good time.
Went to the tavern of Inge1heim
On the Rhine, on the Rhine
, Ihelr POCKETS were empty. but still they nursed
The hope that some one would uuench their thirst
With wine with wine
"sir host, we are broke, we have not a cent:
In seeing the world our gold we've spent
On the Rhine, on the Rhine
But come, Wen show you some wonderful tricksi
In return we ask you give us for nix
Some wine, some wine"
I'VE fellows! the keeper OF Ingelheim
VIII sell you glass OF wine for dime
On the Rhine, on the Rhine
But for all your tricks with needle and thread
OF wine, of wine"
A sunbeam one of them caught in his hat.
And nimbly threaded his needle with that
On the Rhine, on the Rhine.
broken wine glass he sewed with the beam
SO well that one could see the seam
In wine, in wine.
The second tailor caught hold of a gnat
AS on the bridge of his nose he squat,
On the Rhine on the Rhine
The gnat wore socks with a hole like dot;
He darned 1t so finely you noticed il not,
For wine, for wine.
His needle of steel the third one grabbed
With all his might in the wall he stabbed,
On the Rhine, on the Rhine.
saw the wonder myself while 1 slipped
My wine, my wine.
The host of Ingelheim said: "I see
The truest snartest men of you three,
On the Rhine, on he Rhine"
thmble he took ana filled 10 the brim,
And laughingly said: s'Now, boys, take swim
In wine, in wine."
From the German Of Herloszsohn, by John
Volk, in the New York Sun.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
Newspaper Rhymesters
The Picnic by the Lake.

Oh, love the gentle summer for It's long and
pleasant days,
For its sweet romantic evenings beneath the
moons soft rays,
For its flowers and its sunshine; but I hate that
CHASTITY fake,
That travesty on pleasure, called the picnic by
the lake.
First there comes the burning question-oh, it is
easy task
OF deciding on the people you think good enough
Then su CHI tiresome discussions on what each is
going to take
lake.
When these vital points are settled and the party
is afioat,
There are maidens five, matron and lone man
in each boat,
Who takes the oars ana Struggles Till ne thinks his
pack will break,
AS he rows eight miles to windward-to the picnic
by the lake.
When at last the voyage is ended he must Chamber
to the spring,
Which is somewhere up the mountain" that the
He must get a load of drifswood, and the campfire
he must make;
Though it's hotter than-the tropics at the pic mic
by the lake.
Then he has to mock his hunger with diet Of
Of hard boiled eggs and sandwiches, relieved with
Boston beans.
There's scarcity of chicken. but plethora of
cake
Oh, the place to get dyspepsia is picnic by the
lake!
While the maiden he would firt with, however
well he plan,
Devotes her whole attention to the only other
AT least, so I was told by the one who got the
And I'll never give another girl picnic by the
lake. H. g, Paine in Harper's Bazar
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
FIESTq OF
INDIHNS
Ut SIN DIEGO.

In San Diego County every year
the Temecula Indians have a fiesta.
1t promises to be bigger this year than
ever. Runners have been sent out to all
the reservations and rancherias, from
Sabobai to Santa Catarina, and all tbs
bucks and bellies will be there. The festiv-
tiles began at Temecula yesterday and
will last as long as there is anything left
OF the wassaiI and wampum.
There are many festas among the San
Diego County Indians during the wear.
The Temecula fiesta and that of San Inns
Rey take the prize for long-drawn festiy-
ity and dancing. The San Luis Rev fiesta
has its headquarters at Pala, but it spreads
during the time of greatest virulence and
takes in the Cuca, Rincon, San Dieguito
Aqua Caliente and all up and down the
San Luis Rey River.
At Temecula horseraces are the princi-
pal diversion. There are plenty of Indians
through that country who own horses
and good ones, too. Then the Mexican
rancheros take hand themselves. their
young vaqueros esteeming it a great
honor to win the race against the supple
and wiry young bucks. All that the
riders have to hold on with is stran
around the SLEEK and steaming BODY Of
the bronco and hair lariat slune around
the lower jaw of their mount. Money
ponies, lar1ats, saddles. shotguns, hunt
lng-knlves, som breros and even wives are
wagered on the agility of chosen pony.
In dances the Temeculas are prolific
and versatile. They don't brandish rattle.
snakes nor iab irebrands into themselves
but they frequently take the platform and
hold it against all-comers for night at
stretch. The women chant long stories or
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
The Hungarian Crown.

The Hungarian crown, the royal head
dress worn at their accession by all the
Austrian Emperors, is the identical one
made for Stephen and used by him at the
time of his coronation, more than 800 years
ago. It is of pure gold, and weighs nine
marks and six ounces (about fourteen
pounds avoirdupois). 1t is adorned with
fifty-three sapphires, fifty rubies, one en-
erald ana 33S pearls, but no diamonds, it
being notion of the royal Stephen that
diamonds were unlucky.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
DISPOSITIONS
TILkED INTO THIS
MTCHINE

The graphophone plays an important
feature in the speedy reproduction of the
very long dispositions in the Fair will con-
test. As this is something new in San
Francisco, or new at least in this appiica-
ton, some little description may be of in
terest. The notes of the stenographers
are taken on the ordinary plan and they
must be transcribed by typewriters. The
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16

Tree That Split a Bowlder.
The above picture shows tree in Mill
Valley that has split a huge bowlder into
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16

The Duke of Atholl is the only nobleman
who clothes his men servants in Highland
dress in London.