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Year: 1878

The letter from Henry M. Stanley which
we print this morning summarizes the
story of his journey toward home and civil
lization after the long and dreadful one
across Africa. A,sense of mental and phys
ical prostration seems to have been expert
enced by the party when the coast, safety
and plenty were reached. The fact that the
work SO long in accomplishing was COM
pleted ut last caused reaction that even
the excitement of success and the warmth
of welcome could not overcome. Stanley
confesses that had he fallen sick among his
new friends at Bona no medical skill could
have restored him. But fortunately his
rugged constitution, enormous vitality and
sense ofduty to his followers and to the jour-
nails he represented sustained him against
even the natural effects of his recent terrible
labor and anxietyylunger and fntigue, and
the almost equally dangerous consequences
of sudden cessation Of bodily effort and
mental strain. While the Africans dropped
and died by the shore of the great ocean
after the long journey the white mans
strength did not fail him, and he has led
the survivors of his band to their homes.
The story of the voyage from the Congo to
the Cape is graphically told by Stanley.
From the Portuguese and British authori-
ties he has met with unvarying kindness
and substantial aid. His comments on the
condition of the streets of Loanda will
apply almost equally well to those of New
York Mt times, SO that we can sympathize
with the citizens of the West African city.
The reception Of the expedition and its
chief at the Cape WAS worthy of the colonists
and the authorities. Stanley does not fail
to express his gratitude for every courtesy
extended to him. This feeling will be
shared by all who love the objects for
which he labored
Year: 1878

The extensive famine in the Chinese En-
pire appeals to the humane sympathies even
of this distant part of the world, and Con-
gress has been pettioned to send the sur
plus of the Chinese indemnity fund, amount
ing to nearly three-fourths of million dol
lars, to China as a contribution to the relief
of the sufferers. 1t is impossible not to
sympathize with the motives that prom pied
this petition, but there are supposed to be
constitutional obstacles to granting its
prayer. To whom does this money belong {?
We must assume that it belongs to
the United States, for otherwise it
should long ago have been restored
to China, not as an act of charity, but of
Justice, and besides, if it belonged to China
it would not become us to dictate what she
shall do with it and make O show of beney-
olence at her expense. It belongs to the
United States in the same way that the un-
distributed balance of the Alabama claims
indemnity does. 1t will be argued that
Congress has no more constitutional
authority to give away in foreign
charity money so obtained than it
has to give money received into the
treasury by taxes or the sale of the public
lands. Even in the great Irish famine Con-
gress did not feel at liberty to make grant
Of money, but only gave the free use of
some government ships to convey the
contributions of private charity We
deem it unlikely that the indemnity
fund will be diverted to the relief of the
famine, and the objection will doubtless
rest on the constitutional argument and the
exnaliancv of seLtina snch a nrecadant
Year: 1878

surely have been ruled by pious impair
tiality. They could have been dictated only
by zeal for religion. What respect must
the world have felt for so unwonted spirit
of charity fairness and justice! Rome could
not be charged with keeping her see for her
own children alone. This wise manage
ment meeting every schism, every division,
contributed largely to increase the power OF
the Holy See. Weighty motives have since
made notifications necessary" Those
"weighty motives cease with the fall of the
temporal power, and there is no reason why
the early practice of the Church should not
be resumed.


If the Conclave goes out of Italy for the
new Pontiff the English-speaking Catholics
possess valid claim to have their wishes
considered. They have become one OF the
largest branches of the universal Church
and are not excelled by Catholics anywhere
in pious zeal and loyal devotion to its in
terests Either Cardinal Manning or Cardi-
nal McCloskey would be highly acceptable
to Catholics who speak the English tongue,
but American Catholics would prefer the
latter This preference does not rest merely
on personal appreciation and affection orna-
tional sentiment, but on belief that in
the transition from the old to the new sys-
tenn the prosperity OF the Church without
temporal sovereignty would te best pro-
noted by an able ecclesiastic who has large
experience in administering Church affairs
in country where the divorce between
temporal and spiritual authority is so COM
plete as it has long been in the United
States No other man elected rs Pope could
so easily grasp the new situation or pass so
readily into harmony with its requirements.
Year: 1878

The IMPORTANCE Of giving government aid to
line of steamers from this port to Brazil and
lor an additional line from New Orleans has
been brought to the attention of one of the
committees of Congress.
Year: 1878

THE DEATH OF THE PoPE was announced in
all the Catholic churches yesterday, but there
were no special services in memory OF him.
These will be held during the week and will, Of
course, be unusually impressive.
Year: 1878

In THE OPINION of the Corporation Counsel it
is entirely legal for the Police Commissioners to
make contracts for the cleaning Of the streets.
Since they cannot or will not do the work the
contract system might be tried with some ad-
vantage.
Year: 1878

Russia at Constantine will, it is said,
'sregulate her attitude by that OF England,
and she already deems that her ''liberty of
action" is restored by the sending of the
British fleet to the Bosphorus. Our opin-
ion on this as possible variation in the at
titude Of the Powers at Constantinople was
given on Saturday; but the above statement,
telegraphed from st. Petersburg, advances
the possibility to the position OF an immi-
nent fact. Russia's ''liberty of action" with
regard to Constantinople was, it will be re-
membered, restrained by her pledges given
to England, and if Russia regards that lib
erty as restored" it is of course because
she regards the course now taken by Eng
land as relieving her from the OBJ
legation of the pledges made to that
government. AS men who pledge themselves
under the forfeiture of bail bond for the
appearance Of an accused person in court
are relieved from their responsibility when
the culprit is placed under arrest, or when
by any means whatever he comes into the
actual custody Of the officers Of the law, SO
Russia is relieved from her pledges to re-
spect the interests of England at Constanti-
nople when England sends her own feet
and her own officers to that point to care for
those interests on her own account. SO
long as Russia's pledge was depended upon
by England, and England had no other
guarantee, Russia was bound @n honor by
that pledge, and she certainly has not ~
lated it. But when England ceases to de-
pend upon that pledge, and when she takes
steps to guarantee her own interest by send
ing forward her men-of-war, then Russia is
discharged from her obligation and her
honor is no longer concerned for the safety
and welfare of English interests. This
seems simple enough, but no doubt the ini-
tiation by Russia of any course of proceed
ings which implies that she regards the
obligations referred to as no longer binding
will be greeted in England by a howl of
virulent abuse at so-called Russian treach-
cry. But that bowling does not affect
Russia, however, and the British view of
events is not SO potent in the formation
of the opinion Of the world at large as
it once was. 1t may be depended
upon, therefore, that if in the attitude
or conduct of the British fleet in Turkish
waters there is the slightest departure from
strict neutrality; if foot or q finger is
lifted to take practical guarantees for any
so-called British interest in that part of the
world, Russia will occupy Stamboul. With
out such action on the part of England it
would be mistake for Russia to go further
than she has already gone Her case is
sufficiently sure as she stands. With the
lines dismantled and her army in front of
them Constantinople is miitarily as much
in her possession as it would be if she had
regiment of cavalry stabbed in the Mosque
of Saint Sophia. She need go no further for
her safety, therefore; but a step further
would supply n pretext against her that she
10 wise enough to withhold.
Year: 1878

We desire to direct the attention of our
readers, more especially those of native birth,
to communication in this issue signed "Tan-
talus." 1t is from the pen of one of our most
intelligent citizens, and is in itself happy
thought well expressed and well worthy the
attention of both the Government and the peo
pie of the Hawaiian Islands.


All nationalities are perpetuated in history
either by their prowess, their arts, commerce,
their national songs, or emblems that typify
the leading characteristics of their locality
or race. AS the peculiar geographical con-
formation of the Hawaiian Kingdom being a
group of detached Islands, precludes the idea
of their ever becoming noted for deeds of dar-
ing either by land or by sea, SO as to entite her
to high place in the annals of nations, yet,
inasmuch as she is nevertheless a distinct and
separate nationality, it is peculiarly beftting
that she should adopt some national badge,
emblematical of the peculiarities of her loca-
ton and in this our correspondent has hap
PLY indicated the idea of selecting au emblem
from her luxuriant and unrivaled fora. Who
will be the first to move in this matter? Let
him speak
Year: 1878

YESTERDAY being the anniversary of the
accession of His Majesty King Kalakaua, to
the throne of Hawaii, royal salute was fired
from Punchbowl, which was responded to by
the foreign national vessels of war now in the
harbor. A reception at the Palace and a
royal lunch, was participated in by the Min
listers of State, Judicial and other officers, and
citizens and strangers without limit, who con-
graduated His Majesty and the Queen Consort,
with much enthusiasm. We are pleased to
add, that His Majesty and Consort are both in
the enjoyment of good health. Long life to
them both.
Year: 1878

THE Elections all over the Islands, passed
off in peace and quietness. We do not learn
that there was the slightest i'll feeling exhibit


ed anywhere, which is creditable to the peo-
pie. Much of the credit for this state of
things, is due to Marshal Parke and his eff
cient deputies, who by their admirable ar
rangements to keep the peace, and prevent
the slightest attempt at disturbance effectually
checkmated those who might be disposed
to be somewhat turbulent. Elsewhere we
give the full returns of the late elections,
which exhibit a somewhat different result in
some districts than was anticipated, but all
persons acquiese in the result, as the express
5. On of the people,, fairly made at the polls
without interference from any quarter In
Honolulu for instance, there was manifest
indifference exhibited on the part of the for
eign born citizens who were entitled to the
right of suffrage. This latter class, it ap-
pears, did not take sufficient interest in the
election of representatives to induce them to
go to the polls and vote. If, therefore, any
thing should be done by the Legislature,
which meets this present year, that may con-
fict with the notions of the foreign born popu-
lation of Honolulu, the latter have no
one to blame but themselves. All the repre-
sentatives elected from the district of Homo
lulu at the late election are natives; but that
fact does not prove that the selection was
made from any prejudice entertained on the
part of the natives. In several of our articles
published in this paper during the three
weeks proceeding the election, we urged upon
the people of the Kingdom, to make choice of
their very best men for representatives. In
doing so we consider we did all that duty re-
quired of us in the premises, yet in no part
of the Kingdom was there so much apathety
displayed as in Honolulu, where so much in
terest centres to the foreign born population.
We are at loss to account for such indiffer-
ence; but the fault rests with those who
might have produced different result So
far as we are personally concerned, we are
satisfied with the result; but this is not the
case with majority of the foreigners in Ho-
nolulu. We are glad to have to announce the
election of Messrs. Smith, Bickerton, Castle
and Gibson, who are well qualified to dis
charge the onerous and responsible duties of
lawmakers, and whose presence in the Le-
gisIative Assembly will have the effect of
preserving sound conservative sentiment in
that body. Some people think it would have
been better for the interests of the Kingdom,
if two foreigners and two natives, had been
returned for the district of Honolulu but the
people willed it otherwise. The following is
the official result of the election:
Year: 1878

We call attention of subscribers to the fact
that our terms, for subscription, are payable
in advance. They will do rs a kindness
by responding with the needful promptly.
Money makes the mare CO." and SO does it
make the press 60. We have to pay cash for
everything, and want cash to keep the thing
rnoviup
Year: 1878

THE death of the late King of Italy, Victor
Emanuel, is announced in our eastern ex-
changes, received per last steamer His Ma
jesty was i'll but few days, and his death
was not looked for, so that his demise was both
sudden and unexpected by his friends What
the effect of this sudden taking off of the late
King of Italy will be in Europe, it is hard 10
estimate; but one thing is certain that his
death will tend to stir up the friends of His
Holiness the Pope, and the Church of Rome,
to 4 re-assertion of the temporal rights of the
Pontiff, which were wrested from him by the
late King In these times, such an event as
a war or revolution in Italy, to re-seat the
Pope on his temporal throne, is among the
probabilities, and we would not be at all as
tonished to learn that such an occurrence had
actually taken place.


With the present unsettled condition of
Europe, it is not at all unlikely that the
Church of Rome, through her clerical inhu-
ence upon the Catholic people of Europe, may
foment and precepitate a war, to re-instate
the Roman Pontilf in his temporal possessions.
Such an event would be but a natural result
Of things.
Year: 1878

Those who have never lived on stormy
coast, nor been to sea, can form no ade-
ouate idea of the effect that can be pro-
duced by the impact of a succession of
waves, or of single wave. What has hap
pened at Wick, on the extreme northern
coast of Scotland, where breakwater has
been building for several years past, may
give an idea of what is meant by wave
power. 1t was found that stones of ten
tons weight were as pebbles to the waves,
which have been measured to be here forty
two feet from the crest to the bottom of
the trough. The outer end Of the break
water, where the storms beat most violently,
was built of three courses of one-hundred
ton stones laid on the rubble foundations;
next above these were three courses of
large, fat stones, and upon this mass of
concrete, built on the spot of cement and
rubble, the end of the breakwater was
thought to be as immovable as the natural
rock; yet the resident engineer saw it slowly
yield to the force of the waves, and swing
round into the less troubled waters inside
the pier. 1t gave way not in fragments
but in one mass, as if it was monolith.
The displaced mass is estimated to weigh
about $50 tons.
Year: 1878

The Coventry Standard says:-Gold
lace is not gold lace 1t does not deserve
this title, for the gold is applied as sur
face to silver 1t is not even silver lace,
for the silver is applied to foundation of
silk. The silken threads for making this
material are wound round with gold wire
so thickly as to conceal the silk; and the
making of this gold wire is one of the
most singular mechanical operations imag-
Unable. In the first place, the refner pre-
pares solid rod of silver about an inch in
thickness; he heats this rod, applies upon
the surface sheet of gold leaf, Furnishes
this down, applies another coating burn
ishes this down, and SO on until the
gold is about one hundredth part the thick
ness of the silver. Then the rod is sub
jected to train Of processes which brings
it down to the state of fine wire; it is pass
ed through holes in a steel plate lessening
step by step in diameter. The gold never
deserts the silver; but adheres closely to it
and shares all its mutations; it is one hun
dredth part the thickness of the silver at
the beginning, and it maintains the same
ratio to the end. AS to the thinness to
which the gold coated rod of silver can be
brought, the limit depends on the delicacy
of the human skill; but the most remark
able example ever known was brought for
ward by DIR. Wollaston.


This was an example of solid gold wire
without any silver He procured small
rod of silver, bored hole through it from
end to end, and inserted in this hole the
smallest gold wire he could procure, he
subjected the silver to the usual wire-draw-
ing process, until he had brought it to the
finest attainable state-being in fact, sill
yer wire as fine as hair, with gold wire
in its centre. To isolate this gold wire
he subjected it to warm nitrous acid, by
which the silver was dissolved, leaving a
gold wire one thirty thousandth ofan inch
in thickness-perhaps the thinnest round
wire that the hand of man has yet pro-
duced. But the wire, though beyond all
comparison finer than any employed in
manufactures, does not approach in thin
ness the film of gold on the surface of sill
yer and gold lace. 1t has been calculated
that the gold on the very finest silver
wire for gold lace is not more than one
third of one millionth of an inch in thick
ness, that is not above one tenth the thick
ness of the ordinary gold leaf
Year: 1878

aDle 10 enallenge the contrast as IT IS, Wnat
would our country be if we were as unified
in our traditions, habits, and religion as
the people of England are?


/ saw much in the manners and customs
of English people that might be held up
for imitation. But what is the use of
speaking of it? Is the average American
mind open to instruction by any other
people or tongue under the whole heaven?
And shall l not be set down as unpatriotic
and snobbish, if 1 venture to culogize
England and the English? Even so.
But that does not alter the fact. do not
want to change our political or religious
institutions: they are the result of the
ripest experience and the concentrated
wisdom of preceding ages. But, as in re-
forming the church, the leaders rejected
some good things for the sake of casting
out more that was evil, SO we in our revo-
luton have revolved so far as to regard
our own ways the only good ways, and all
that we left behind US, as positively evil
and intolerable.


The more communion we have with
England, the better we will esteem the
people and their institutions. Ifhappiness
were an object, which it is not, it were
just as easy to find it in Old England as
in New England, in Yorkshire as in New
York. There is more and higher culture
in the fields and in the homes of the
wealthy English than in any other country
among people of the same social class, and
to mirgle with intelligent English people,
in their eight little isle, is one of the
highest pleasures of foreign travel.


They are not accessible. They have a
reserve which they suppose to be dignity.
They get it from the existence of an aris-
tocracy, and every man, whether born into
the charmed circle or not, wishes to be ex-
elusive that he may appear unto men to
be something more than he is. But that
reserve melts in minute when he comes
into social contact with brother man.
1t is a foible of Englishmen, as familiarity
is fault Of our people.


An English gentleman introduced him
self to me at the hotel where we met, and
the few hours of my stay were made very
pleasant by his agreeable company. Learn
ing that I was to visit the part of the
country in which was his residence, he in
sisted upon my going to his house, though
he would not be there, that his family
might have the pleasure, &c. And he
made point of it: wrote to his family
that 1 was coming, and when I called for
a moment at the door, l was received as
a friend, and they were positively disap-
pointed when declined to stay and enjoy
their hospitality. Such is not an isolated
case. Another English gentleman did
just the same thing. These are in proof
that behind that thick coat of digniGed
reserve, there are just as warm, genial and
generous souls among Englishmen as in
every other land where Christian civiliza-
tion reigns.
Year: 1878

To destroy bugs on squashes and Gu
cumber. vines, dissolve tablespoonful of
saltpetre in painful of water, put pint
of this around each hill, shaping the earth
so that it will not spread much, and the
thing is done. The more saltpetre, if you
can afford tit is good for vegetables but
death to animal life. The bugs burrow in
the earth at night and fail to rise in the
morning. 1t is also good to kill grub in
peach trees-only use twice as much, say
a quart to each tree. There was not
yellow or blistered leaf on twelve or fifteen
trees to which it was applied last season.
No danger of killing any vegetable with
it-a concentrated solution applied to
beans makes them grow wonderfully.
Year: 1878

CERE FOR PEsT-To those who are
troubled with bed bugs, we give the fol-
lowing remedy, which an exchange assures
the public is both speedy and eficacious:
Wash the room and furniture with salt
water, filling the cracks with salt. When
this is done, you may look in vain for the
bugs. Salt seems to be inimical to them
and they win not go through it. It is
preferable to all ointments, and you can
always assure yourself that You have the
genuine article.
Year: 1878

Books AND DIsEAsE.-Books taken
from circulating libraries for the use of con-
valescents may easily become the vehicles
of contagious diseases, and it is much to
be desired that some effectual method
would be devised of disinfecting volumes
which have been so used Until this is
done circulating libraries would do well to
caution their patrons against the danger
and to request that the books be not used
where such diseases exist. In these days
of cheap publications it is easy to obviate
this peril by procuring for the use Of the
sick low-priced volumes, to be destroyed
after they have been perused.
Year: 1878

The breeze has stopt, the lazy bough
Hath not leaf that dances now;
The tottergrass upon the hill,


And spider's threads are standing still,
And in the oven-heated air,


Not one light thing is floating there,
Save that unto the earnest eye
The restless heat seems twittering by.
Noon swoons beneath the heat it made,
And flowers wither in the shade,
Until the sun slopes in the west,
Like weary traveller, glad to rest
Year: 1878

"A correspondent of the Scientific
American says: 1.-The best remedy for
bleeding at the nose, as given by Dr.
Gleason in one of his lectures, is In the
vigorous motion Of the jaws, as If in the
act of mastication. In the case Of a child
wad of paper should be placed in Its
mouth, and the child instructed to chew
it hard. 1t is the motion Of the jaws that
stops the flow of the blood. This remedy
is SO very simple that many will feel IN
clined to laugh at it, but it was never
known to fail In single instance, even in
severe cases"