Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-08-03
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FROM THE NEVNsMAr'S NOTES

hanging heavy on his hand, began
studying the construction of fire dis
| tinguishers. He turned the cock OF
The nozzle of one that stood in the
corridor outside Chief Clerk Conk-
lings Office. Nothing happened.
Fred picked the machine up and
logged it in to show it to Conkling.
This thing is no good" he said. "ft
won't work. See And he dumped
the extinguisher down on the floor,
bottom side up.
Then he gave wild yell. and
clawed desperately trying to get the
wriggling, squirming, spouting nozzle
out of his trowser leg and shut off the
kissing stream that was squirting him
full of chemical He danced around
like a spider on hot stove and finally
,got the thing out. With the perver-
| sity of inanimate objects it promptly
gave a sudden twist and shot stream
! full in Conkling's face. Conkling fell
over backward and the rubber imp
turned its attention to Pat, one of the
stenographer, and chased him out OF
the Office. John Aimoku got quart
or SO down his neck
The combined efforts of the entire
Office force finally overcame the hiss
ing monster and the stream was
turned off. But Fred has given up his
researches into the constitution OF fire
extinguishers..
+ + 4.
We have noticed that whenever
Judge Hartwell takes a trip to the
Iother Islands there is always larger
number of passengers than usual
make the trip on the same boat. 1t
was always a mystery to me why this
was until one day / asked the reason
from one of the Judges near friends.
He replied that mo one got very sea-
sick who Travelled with the Judge"
Flows that?" | asked
why, don't you see. He overrules
the notion
We were under the opinion that
Lem Ables was the Ne-plus Ultra on
Ianything that pertains to chickens or
their doings, but he is not "it'' any
more. A friend of mine took me into
his confidence a few days ago. He
swore me to secrecy, but | am going
to tell it even If. forfeit his friend
ship. He says Ihe set his hen on a
lot of cold storage eggs. The old hen
in due time CAME off with brood of
seventeen lively chicks. The chickens
grew rapidly, but no feathers re-
placed the down on their bodies, and
ia close examination showed that they
were covered with fur. 1t is the
owners theory that, through the
wise and beautiful provision of nat
ure that adapts all animals to their
environments, the fur replaced the
feathers while the eggs were in cold
storage. The fur is thick and glossy,
and of various colors.
K X
Viceroy Carter is wrOth. He is
going about with blood in his eye
and the big stick firmly grasped in
his hand.
And the police. department is
clothed in sackcloth and ashes and
goes about in fear and trembling.
Whenever the Viceroy leaves the
chamber of state the guardians of
the law take to the woods or crawl
into the first convenient hole.
For the gendarmes have been
guilty of lese majesty and high trea-
son. They have grossly insulted the
Viceroy and his cook! And the cook
is an Oriental into the bargain,
which makes thNAcrime all the more
heinous in view of the Viceroy's well
known affection for those of yellow
skin and eyes aslant.
The cook was indiscreet enough to
be caught by the police in a gambling
raid. But was he not cook for the
Carter household, and could any
member of that autocratic household
do anything he should not. The
king-and his cook-can do no
wrong.
The cook was insulted He was
outraged The very idea. He would
see about this. Just wait until the
Governor came home and the whole
police force would be fired, pigs that
they were!
And then the newspapers, with no
respect for that divinity that doth
hedge about king (or sViceroy) =
and his coOk-had the audaCity to