The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-09
In the Maze Of the Health Boards
Special Laboratory.
ARTHUR TOMBSTONE AT BUSINESS
Has the ouaIifications-Now PIac-
ing in Position New Outfit-M,-
croscopy-Bureauw Work.

An Advertiser reporter dropped into
the bureau OF the Government Food
Commissioner and Analyst the other
day and found that official busy amidst
bewiidering array OF retorts. cruel
bles, eyaporating dishes. casseroles.
burettes. beakers. measuring glasses,
hydrometers. re-agent bottles, bells.
tunnels, watch dishes, glass jars and
the hundred and one articles that go
to make up the "omnium ,atherum-
OF chemical laboratory.
Mr.. Arthur Johnstone. the Official
referred to. had just finished unpack-
ing shipment OF goods from abroad,
but nevertheless accorded the press
representative a courteous welcome.
The latter at once proceeded to exam
inc the principal objects in the room
BY far the most attractive Of all the
miscellanea that meet the eye OF the
obseryant visitor. il goes without say
ing, is the miscroscope. partly wrapped
in chamois leather and covered with
protection of French ormolu clock.
II is splendid instrument with achro-
matte and apochromatic lenses. This,
it may be stated. means that the cur
yatures OF the lenses are so adjusted
that the chromatic alteration pro-
duced by the one Is corrected by the
other. and light emerges from the
compound lens undecompoSed. This
beautifully finished instrument was
manufactured by &. Reichert. Of yien-
na-who IS perhaps one of the best
makers in the wOrld-and specially
ordered by Mr.. Johnstone 10 meet the
particular requirements OF the local
Government. To this belongs an as
sortment OF lenses. about thirty in
number, all OF different streng n; also
several compensating eyepieccs, the
latter containing three or four COM
pound lenses each The highest mag
nifying power obtainable with The aid
OF this outfit Is 1896. and the lowest s.
This triumph OF the opticians skill
representing, with all the necessary
addenda. an outlay of not much less
than 81 900. is Mr.. Johnstone's private
property and TO one less sympathetic
IL would have seemed almost amusing
to- watch him lowering over IL with
that tender and solicitous care which
stamps him as the true sayant as
though il were "A living. breathing
thing OF flesh and blood. The thoughts
Of the writer involuntarily Travelled
away TO that intrepid scientist on top
OF Mount Nesuvius. who Is so absorb
ingly and enthusiastically engrossed
with his study of natural phenomena,
that he cannot be induced TO seek safe
~ from the awful and destructive plu-
tonic forces which are hemming him
in on every side and threaten himself
and his observatory with annihilation.
Appended to the above described in
strument s. "A microscope lamp, which
possesses the advantage of carrying
the rays from the flame directly to the
object through a solid glass tube and
yields ~ per cont more light than the
old-fashionef bull's-eye lantern: also
blue glasses for modifying the light.
the smaller ones being OF cobalt. and
manufactured by Messrs. Powell & De-
land. London. Next comes a micro
meter eyep5erc. which viii measure a
distance Of a two hundred and fifty
thousandth part % an inch. used for
ascertaininE the dimensions Of micro