The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-01-18
ACROSS THE
TWO OCEANS


tiers of English public schools at a con-
ference at Malvern this week discuss.
ed the question of the pronunciation
of Latin. Thirty years ago it was gen
orally agreed that the schools should
adopt the Continental pronunciation,
but Oxford and Cambridge have not
been following suit and that movement
has not made much progress.
The head masters this week again by
a majority of to / favored the Con-
tinental pronunciation but it is consid.
cred that it will be long time be-
fore Oxford will abandon the English
pronunciation, for which the head mas
ter of Westminster pleaded on the
ground that it was ineligible to Eng
lishmen and helped them to under
stand their own language
AUSTRIA'S SENSITIVE HONOR.
PRAGUE, Dec. 29.-Ehrenbeleidi-
gung, or Islander cases, are increasing
to ridiculous extent in Austria. If
man calls another a stupid fool or
something of a similar nature the Of
Tended party Immediately prefers
charge of SANDER. Scarcely day
passes without such cases being report
ed in the newspapers.
One of the most extraordinary of
these has just occurred near Eyer. A
country school teacher called a boy
pupil ragamuffn, for which offence he
was arrested, tried and sentenced to
forty-eight hours imprisonment
DIPLOMATIC CLIMBER.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-Among the great
variety of comment on the appointment
of Mr.. James Bryce as British Ambas-
sador at Washington, perhaps the most
curious is the hope seriously expressed
by the Spectator that his record as a
mountain climber in former years will
make him persona grata to President
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Bryce made the first ascent of
Mount Ararat.
wv oT III l-NU.
PARIS, Dec. Provided this
electrical cleansing is followed by aux
Hilary treatment in expelling from our
bodies the morbid waste caused by
electricity, there is no longer any H..
ternal reason for growing old or even
DYING
10 Inl,4 A.
Matin after lengthy explanation of
Prof. d Arsonval's high frequency cur.
rent electric treatment. The discover
err, who is one of the most eminent
members of the Academy of Sciences,
says the majority of people die of arte.
rio sclerosis. He uses sphygmometer
to measure the tension of the blood in
the arteries. If the mercury of the
instrument marks fifteen or sixteen CEN
timeters it shows a normal tension. If
the tension is higher OF lower Prof. d.
Arsonval states that six baths of the
high frequency current will bring it to
the normal where it will remain, all
danger of arterio sclerosis being re-
These baths of five to ten minutes
each may be taken three times a week.
They give the patient absolutely no
sensation. 1t only remains to find
method of checkmating microbes from
and the Matin believes the
world will possess the means of per.
petual health.
PORT ARTHUR IS DESOLATION.
LONDON, Dec. ga German mer-
chant who has just returned from Port
Arthur gives in private letter an in
teresting description of that famous
stronghold. He says:
son landing / fould myself in the
squalid harbor quarter. 1t was de-
serted except for a few Chinese and
Japanese loafers. A Chinaman drove
me past great heaps of rubbish and
debris of demolished houses. In the
so'called European quarter death
like silence reigned. Only ten Euro
peans live there now, and of business
there was no trace.
1.-THE japanese confne their efforts
10 refortifying the place. 1t is still
picture of ruin, especially in the
neighborhood of Forts and g. Some
II inch shells weighing two hundred
weights each were lying about. In
he classmates one comes across human.
bones, army boots, caps, cartridge cases
md various articles of military ac-
'outrement lying about in confusion.
The sight leaves an indelible impress.
ion of dreary, utter desolation.'
A HABIT To BE ENCOURAGED.
The mother who has acquired the