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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-08
Telephone Improvement.

The London Times has publish
ed an interesting article on the
Apostaloif telephone-an auto
matte device by which an ex.
change with, say, 10000 sub.
scribers, can be readily manipu
lated, within a small space, and
by very few attendants. In the
central station each subscriber is
represented by a piece of appa-
ratus contained in a box q few
inches high, which is connected
by an ordinary metallic circuit to
the telephone in his house OF
Office. Ordinary telephones are
used with the addition of small
piece of apparatus termed
"transmitter" or "manipulator.'
The face of this transmitter is
pierced with three little window
or apertures, in two of which
numerals appear and in the third
certain service indications. Sup
pobc u buDSCt tOci WlbucS W bDthh
with No. 1895. He presses but
ton under the left hand aperture
until the numerals II appear. He
then does the same to button
under the right hand window
until 50 appears. These two
operations have produced cores
ponding movements in the in
strument that represents him at
the central station. The positive
currents sent by the left hand
button have passed through a
polarized relay, and caused local
battery to send II successive cur
rents through an electromagnet
which has moved q travelling
switch step by step past 16 con-
facts, each representing a group
of 100 subscribers, until it has
stopped on the 18th of the row.
The negative currents have in the
same way moved a second travel
ling switch till it is in connection
with the 95th contact of the other
row. The subscriber now presses
another button, which causes the
words Ring up" to appear in the
middle aperture.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-08

Water colors and Oil colors in
sets suitable for Xmas presents.
King Bros, Hotel street. "
City Carriage Co.. j. S. And.
rade, manager. Ii you want a
hack with good horse and care
tul driver ring up Telephone 1l3,
corner of Fort and Merchant
streets Hack at all hours.
Kroeger Pianos, sweetest in tone,
Jas. w. Bergstrom, sole agent, cash
or installments. Warerooms at
G. Vests, Masonic Temple. Of
fee at Thrum's Book Store. Tun-
ing and repairing. 16 Tele-
phone BAT.
The Vacuum oils are sold in
the Hawaiian Islands by the Paci-
fic Hardware Co., Ltd. ,of Honolulu,
and are delivered to the purchas.
or in original packages as shipped
from our works. Vacuum Oil
Co., Edward Prizer, Secretary. =
Singers lead the world. Over
100000 made and sold. High
| est awards at the Worlds Column
bian Exposition for excellence OF
construction, regularity of motion
ease Of motion, great speed, ad.
Instability, durability, ease Of
learning and convenience of ar.
rangement. B. Bergersen, agent
! 16i Bethel streets. 4"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-08
J. 7. WATERAOUSE

We are expecting a large
invoice of China from the fac
tories in France and England.
The goods will be of the same
fine quality thet we have al
ways carried in stock.
To make room for the new
and get rid of the old we offer
at less than cost odd pieces in
French and English China.
These comprise Teas, Coffees,
Breakfast or Dinner Plates,
Vegetable Dishes and every
thing else in China used on
the table. They are not in
full sets but in odd pieces.
This is the first odd piece sale
we have held and you get a
great benefit if you take ad-
vantage of the opportunity
presented. There are not many
pieces, and the first customer
gets a bargain.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-08
CLAUS sPREcKELs. WM. G. Irwin.
CLAUS SpfscksIs 4 20.
BANKERS.
San Francisco Agents-TBE NEVADA BANK OF
SAN FRANCISCO.

DRAW EXCHANGE ON
BAN gRANoIsoo-The Nevada Bank of San
Francisco.
LoNDoN-The Union Bank of London, Ltd.
New YoRK--American Exchange National
Bank.
CHIoAao-Merchant National Bank.
PARIS = Compton National dEscompt de
Paris.
BERLIN-Dresdner Bank:
HoNGKoNa AND YoKoHAMA-Hongkong q
Shanghai Banking Corporation.
New ZEALAND AND AUsTRALIA-Banko OF New
Zealand. - =
vIoToRIA AND yANcouvER-Bank of Mont
real. =
Transact a General Banking and Exchange Business
Term and Ordinary Deposits Received.
Loans made on Approved Security. Com
mercial and Travellers Credits Issued. Bills
Of Exchange bought and sold.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ACCOUNTED For.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
New Use for Electr;citv

Experiments conducted for the last five
years at Cornell college, the results of
which were made public last June, seem
to prove that electricity may be used to
stimulate the growth of plants.
Agricultural scientists had long recog-
nized the valuable part that atmospheric
electricity played in the life of vegetable
growths, but the artificial application of
it had never before been ATTEMPTED In
addition to the applicat ton of electricity
to the seeds of the plants and to the soil,
the experimenters at Cornell used the
arc light at night The plants receiving
the bright electric rays at night and the
sunshine in the daytime were found to
grow much faster than those not thus
supplied with the artificial stimulant.
Lettuce, spinach; radishes and similar
vegetables were brought to maturity in
almost half the time ordinarily required.
BY applying the arc light direct to the
plants their growth was so acceIera ted
that many ran to seed before the edible
leaves were formed. Plants placed with
in five feet of the lamp died and wiltei
shortly after being taken out of the soil.
The effect upon Towering plants, es-
pecially upon the daisy, petunia and vio-
let, was equally remarkable. The blooms
were FASTENED in their growth and their
number multiplied. The colors were fire.
Iuently made more brilliant On the
other hand, they faded sooner A Mr..
Rawson, who owns fancy truck farm
near Boston. and has tried similar
methods, finds that the gain from one
crop of lettuce is sufficient to pay the
expense Of operating the electric lights
during whole season.--New York Her,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
NEW FRUIT PEST IN CALIFORNIA.
1t Attacks Oranges and Lemons and
AlnrmS llrCharlists.a

1t Attacks Oranges and Lemons and
Alarms Orchariists.s
The sudden discovery of new pest
which is making great havoc among the
oranges and lemons shipped to the East
from. Southern California, is receiving in
taral college at the California State uni
versity. The new pest has been found
! to be form Of fungus, but whether. it
lis an entirely new variety remains to be
proved by further examination.
Profs. Woodwork and Bioletti have
the investigation in charge. The new
disease, has appeared so suddenly that
to ship many samples of the fungus to
Berkeley. Samples of the pest as it at
tacks the lemons are all that have thus
far been received. None of the SpeCi-
mems, of the orange blight have been ex-
ammed, though the professors feel conf
dent that the same form of fungus has
attacked both fruits.
The appearance of the new disease upon
the surface of the lemons varies with the
duration of time that the fruit has been
off the trees. The disease was first no.
ticed in the East, where California fruit
bore large, ,repulsiye red .blottchess that
IN Southern California the fungus ap-
pearel during the last few weeks as a
brown or gray patch of discoloration. At
first it was passed without comment by
the shippers, but when the returns from
Eastern shipments showed whole car
loads sold at an immense sacrifice on
account of the new disease, then the
alarm was sounded in the California or
chards, and now every Southern orchard
list is anxiously awaiting the results of
the Investigations at Berkeley, which
shall determine whether the future pros
poets of the Southern citrus belt are to
be permanently endangered by the un-
slightly fungi. In some instances Eastern
reports show that the disease even de-
stroys the flesh Of the fruit, rendering it
atOlutely unfit for food.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Two Big Steamers.

The quantity of material used in the
construction of the two new twin-screw
express steamers, Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse and Kaiser Friedrich, Of the
North German Lloyd, now building, is
interesting as illustrating the enormous
size of these two steamers. There have
so far been used in the construction of
cts, $4,000 pounds Of steel, and in the
construction Of the stem and of the stsrn
frame, inclusive of the arms that carry
the screw. shafts, 100000 pounds Of Steel.
The weight of the crank shafts of this
steamer amounts to 400, 900 pounds That
of the screw sshafts 100000; 2,7O0,DO0
pounds of steel went into the boilers,
and the weight of the plates, angles and
dagonals of the hull Of the ship sums
up 15,S00,000 pounds. The Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse will be launched at TIE
end of March or beginning of April, and
take her place ON the line next fall
New York Tribune. 49, -- 60
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Feats of Our Cavalry.

AS a proof of the fact that these rep
resentatiFe bodies of the United States
army are the real soldiers that they look
and worthy to maintain the historic repu-
tation of their respective commands, we
take pleasure in referring to a recent
exercise of the Third cavalry at its
western station. On the Goth of last
October six troops of this regiment. un-
der the command of Lieut.-Col. (brcvet
Brigadier GeneraD Guy V. Henry, left
Jefferson barracks, Missouri, for Spring
held, III the same state, and $50 miles
distant. They marched to Springfield
and back. Il distance Of 500 miles, in
100 marching hours. The average there
five and one-half miles day for nine
teen marching days, being absent in all
twenty-three days. The gait was the
new regulation alternate trot and walk.
Under the new system of walking all
day, the same march would have taken
them 900 hours, or nine hours day in
the saddle. as compared with the five
hours day under the new system. The
alternate gait. moreover. is better for
the horse. because at a trot they are not
SO liable to get sore backs from their
riders lounging in the saddle, as they do
in a tedious walk. The command re-
turned home in fine condition, marching
thirty miles in five hours the last day.
and on the day following gave full
dress review before Gen. Miles. AS an
individual performance, Lieut.. II. II.
Pattison Of the Third cavalry lately
rode 10 miles in less than twenty-four
hours, finishing in first-rate condition as
to man and horse. OF such stuff our
regulars of today are made.-Leslic's
Weekly
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Fattening Pigs in Winter.

There is very rarely much profit in
keeping pigs through the winter, and in
the meantime fitting them for sale for
spring porkers. The trouble is in keep
ing the pig warm enough to make the
best use of his food, and secondly. in
giving him the material to make growth
as we'll as fat. Milk is scarcer in winter
than at any other time of year. In fact,
it cannot be had on most farms. Yet
by cooking some fine wheat middlings.
to which tablespoonful of Gnseed meal
for each quart Of porridgc has been add
ed Il very satisfactory substitute for
skim milk may be made. 1t will be real
ly richer in nutritive value than is skim
milk, and if pigs SO fed have warm quar-
ters. they will thrive just as we'll as they
will in summer
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
FOR THE FARMER.
The Scotch,

Ia valentine addressed to Tan Macluren
Of Drumtochty by his sincere adInirer, John
Kfndrlck Bangs.l %&&s%
You've superseded our national game,
/ And given to those who scoif
At national things q sport you call
: The wonderful game Of golf.
You've put In the place of negro tales
The tales which you say are true,
OF tho dialectual queernesses OF
Old Sandy MacGraw MacHugh.
You've put on the necks of our dudes 10
a@# brave,
All In line with your dominant plans,
Instead of the ties Of the Englishmen,
The plaids Of the Scottish clans.
But IN oil Of your lives there are just two
things
You Scotchmen will never do,
In spite your genius and dialect,
And Sandy MacGraw MacHugh
Our climate Is such you never can make.
No matter how much you yex,
Us wear the bare knees Of the Highland
man,
Or the skirts Of the opposite sex
And finally. sir. 1t matters no jOt
How hard you Scottish men try,
You'll never succeed with all of your Scotch
In spelling our love for Rye
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
EMPTY PARIS HOTELS.
Experiencing Hard Times Because SOUTH
bound Travellers Do Not stop.

The great hotels of Paris. especially
those that receive the bulk of their tad
from foreigners are e,nptier just now
than at any time since the war. The
modern express trains to the South Of
Italy. Monaco and the Riviera. carrying
through sleeping ears. have for Years
made the journey 50 pleasantly md $"
quickly that few travellers from England
have felt it necessary to stop over =: lh"
French capital. But since Berlin and
Vienna entered into direct commu>ica-
tons with these parts. booking ira, .!"rs
from st. Petersburg and Warsaw as
we'll, the French capital gets beau.if ally
left all around. Scandina Wan. Russian
Austrian and German sojournrrS are To-
day as rare in Paris as Englis;,inrn
Only Belgians and the Dutch remain
true to their old love. bnt these good pep
pie cannot fill the big caravansar;ts in
the Champs Elysec ana neiyl,lyrn,rrl
Not hotel Keepers only. but Ill ID"
great cafes and restaurants the. IL Ills
ties. art dealers and >torekeeI,-rs ,,-n-
orally suffer in consequence Of this alb
sence of visitors. 1t has been figured vut
that ut least twenty-five great Irs:au-
rants have closed their doors since. 1872:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Monkey as an IInitator.

At Cheltenham there lives a retired ad-
Ipiral and his wife. who have favorit"
monkey. One day recently the lady.
hearing strange noise in the dining
room. looked in to see what it was. Th.
sight which met her eyes was ludicrou-
one.
Seated in the armchair. with the adj
mirars smoking cap On his head and the
admiral's spectaclts on his nose was tn.
monkey, and i'll his hand was the open
newspaper. which be shook and r,atted
hilc he jabbered and grsticulateh with
great emphasis at the cat which la
blinking OH the hearth rug
1t was a clever and carefully udie.I
imitation Of the testy old admiral's tone
and manner when reading to his wife
some passages from the newspaper which
excited his wrath or ndignation-Weck-
" Telegrapi
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Desperate Battle with a Bear.

George LOFTS, who met and fought a
large cinnamon bear to death on Bad
Water, near Wind river, Wyo., is in
Casper, says the Derrick: Lofts is the
worse for having had the scrap, but
didn't begin it, nor could he stop it. He
was trailing the bear and didn't know
he was within thirty feet of it until it
came out of the brush and sat upright.
He gave it one ball from his Winchester.
The bear made three bounds to him, he
giving it another bullet while coming.
The first blow disarmed LOFTS of gun
and the bear chewed him all over. Every
grab the flesh was torn and bones
cracked and broken. The man was on
his way back. The bear tore his side.
his leg and seized his head, his teeth
scalping the man and crushing his skull
The. right ear is lacerated and almost
torn off and he is deaf in that ear as a
result. He was left for dead. He was
three hours getting one mile to camp.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Puzzled johnson.

There is hotel in one of the large
cities of Pennsylvania where the host
personally looks after the comfort of his
guests. We will call him Johnson, prin-
clpally because his name does not sound
anything at all like that. Johnson is an
excellent hotelkceper, and is always anx-
ious to learn what he does not know
about taking care of the travelling pub
TIC. There isn't really much for him to
learn III that line, but nevertheless he is
always in learning mood.
Some days ago man from New York
registered and was assigned to room.
Towards dinner time the new arrival
proprietor: 49, : -
MIR. Johnson, you must give me an
other room Immediately"
"Doesn't that one suit you, Mr..
Riggs" 1'
''No; it is too near the kitchen. The
odors of the cooking permeate the at
Very well, sI," replied Mr.. John
son. "Ili let you have different
rOOm."
The change was made, and the guest
was no, doubt. satisfied, for he made no
further. complaint. The hotel proprietor
was not satisfied, however. He thought
he had a chance to learn something.
Meeting the man from New York in the
o)uSc icAt uaS, ne dShcu.
''Mr. Riggs, does your new room suit
youy'
=, Very well, thank you, Mr.. Johnson"
replied the guest.
If you don't, mind" Mr.. johnson
went on, I'D like to ask you one more
question about the room you objected to
yesterday"
: "The only trouble was that it was too
near the Kitchen :,
Eyes, I know that; but what was it
you said them odors done ?"-Harper's
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Abuse of q Good Old Saying.

Has any fine old saying been more per-
verified and abused than noblesse oblige?
Everybody feels entitled to apply it to
the momentary conception of expedient
conduct; few of us see in it anything
mere than an admonition to pride of the
poorer Sort. And yet in the short phrase
lies 4 wealth of suggestion that ought
to stimulate our higher nature; viewed
rightly, it is moral "excelsior," that
urges every one of us to live up to the
light within us; to improve our oppor-
tunities, to elevate, not debase to the ami
NAL level, our human nature. There
is such power in noble motto that it
would be well to restore to this one it's
ancient meaning, and teach it to our
children as .talisman against the evils
of rude associations and allurements of
vice. Noblesse oblige-that is, we are
bound by the obligations of our educa-
tion,. our refinement, our advantages, to
be kind, courteous, generous; to be man
". womanly, human-Woman's Home
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Planting Beans and Potatoes.

The rule to plant beans with the eye
down may answer with very late plant
ing, but is not to be recommended while
the soil is cool and moist early in spring.
The bean is very impatient Of wet or
cold, and is more likely to rot with it's
eye turned down than when the eye is
turned toward light, air and warmth: On
the other hand, potatoes which somebody
has advised to be. planted with the cut
side down ought always to be planted ex-
actly the other way. The potato likes
cool and moist soil, and its roots grow all
the stronger while the shoot starts from
under the cut piece, and then turns up
ward to the light. Twenty years or more
ago VIC made careful experiment in
planting potatoes, having four rows, two
of which were planted cut side up and
the other two the reverse. The rows
were close: together, and the potatoes
which had to start and turn in the soil
before coming to the surface had all the
season stronger vines and in the fall
yielded more marketable potatoes than
did the other. The vines also kept green
longer, because the roots starting under
the potato set got firmer hold on the soil
than when they started nearer the sur
face.-American Cultivator.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Electric Eyes.

The latest adjunct that science gives to
the surgical operator is an electric eye.
Strictly speaking, it is not an eye at all,
but rather q sort Of searchlight, which is
used to aid the human eye in delicate
surgical operations.
in their work by the fact that they can
not see distinctly the parts upon which
they must operate. The formation of
the human body is such that in many in
stances no light can be put directly upon
the particular part of the human anat-
omy that is to be operated upon. The
eye can see. to the extent of human
capability, but in intricate operations.
however strong the light in the operating
theater may be. the rays lack that pene-
tratlon and power of concentration so
necessary to delicate surgical operations.
Prof. Charles r. Quimby Of Bellevue
hospital. New York. has patented this
electric light wire Il connection is made
with, this device, which fits the face much
in the manner Of pair OF spcctacles
The appliance in itself consists of two
small incandescent lamps. which are fit
ted, one above and the other below the
eye of the operator. They are SO ad~
j,,sted that the rays focus at a point suf-
to throw all the power Of the electric
rays upon the point desired.
1t is practically portable searchlight
adapted to the operating theater. The
lamps are in the form of an annular glass
globe, with an illuminating conductor. An
insulated backing, consisting Of metal
leather-lined band. which passes around
the head, prevents the heat from Affect
ing the wearer. and at the same time
holds the light i'll position and prevents
any possible effect that otherwise the
electricity might have upon the wearer.
The lights more nearly resemble long
glass tubes than anything else. Within
these tubes are placed the lamps, which
can be adjusted to any desired angle.
When a direct downward ray is desired.
small reflector is fixed above the light
and the rays thrown in the desired direc,
tion.-San Francisco Examiner.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
Draught Horses on the Road,

The strength of the draught horse en-
ables him to make good time for short
sprint, despite the excess of weight he
carries. But unless on soft dirt roads
fast driving of draught horses should not
be attempted, because the excess of
weight makes the pounding of the horses
feet on the hard surface all the more Sc
we're. 1t is we'll known that heavy horses
are quite apt to have defective feet This
we believe to be the cause. Kept to their
appropriate pace on the road and on the
farm draught horses will live and do
good service years after they are 20
years old. 1t is nervous worry that short
ems life, rather than hard, muscular toll,
both in horses and in men.