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disc together with other points in the
photography of solid objects by means
of the "X-Ray" were explained, after
which the lights were turned out and
the demonstration begn.
Dr. Lauschner held up a ''screen"
made out of a thin film of some white
substance in front of the tuba contain
ing the rays and then inserted his hand
between the two. bringing it into di
rect contact with the screen. Imme
diately there were exposed to view the
bones of the fingers and hand. This
done a thick book was placed in the
same position and directly behind it
was put a small pocket-book containing
two silver pieces. The metal bindings
of the pocket-book together with the
coins were plainly visible.
After all had seen these wonderful
things, Dr. Lauschner made a few re
marks bearing on the subject in hand
and then closed.
Dr. Lauschner bears the distinction
of being the first to lecture before a
Honolulu audience on the subject of the
"X-Ray," and he has the hearty thanks
of all those present for a pleasant and
instructive evening.
Among those present were Rev. C.
M. Hyde and Mrs. Hyde, Dr. and Mrs.
Day, Dr. and Mrs. Wood, Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown.
Auditor-General Laws and Mrs. Laws,
Mrs. R. P. Myers, Mrs. Ashford, Misses
Grace, Richards. Benner, Finkler,
Mossman (2), Carrie Afong, Drs. Emer
son, Miner, Andrews, Sloggett, Her
bert, Ryder, Professor Alexander, Rev.
Hiram Bingham, Colonel Fisher, Cap
tain Kidwell, F. A. Schaefer, E. Suhr,
David Dayton, teachers of Punahou and
Kamehameha and many other spe
cially invited guests.
KKTTKK Til A I'll: 8TJKF.
Peculiar and Surprl.siuur livlluiitu of
Dead Sea liatlilntr.
It may seem preposterous to talk of
the finest sea-bathing on earth a thou
sand miles from the ocean; but truth
is no less truth because it appears
absurd. The sea-bathing in Great Salt
Lake infinitely surpasses anything of
the kind on either the Atlantic or
Pacific coast . The water contains !
many times more salt and much more
soda, sulphur, magnesia, chlorine,
bromine and potassium than any ocean
water on the globe. It is powerful in
medicinal virtues, curing or benefiting
many forms of rheumatism, rheuma
tic gout, dyspepsia, nervous disorders
and cutaneous diseases; and it acts
iike magic on the hair of those unfor
tunates whose tendencies are to bald-
headedness. It is a prompt and po- j
tent tonic and invigorant of body and j
mind, and then there is no end of fan !
in getting acquainted with its pecu- !
liarities. A first bath in it is always
as good as a circus, the bather being j
his or her own amusing trick mule, i
The specific gravity is but a trifle less
than that of the Holy Land Dead Sea,
the actual figures with distilled water
as unity being, for the ocean, 1.027; for
Salt Lake, 1.107, and for the Dead Sea,
1.116. The human body will not and
cannot sink in it. You can walk out
in it where it is fifty feet deep, and
your body will stick up out of it like
a fishing cork from the shoulders up
ward. You can sit down in it perfect
ly secure where it is fathoms deep.
Men lie on top of it with their arms
crossed under their heads and smoke
their cigars. Its buyoancy is inde
scribable and unimaginable. Any one
can float upon it at the first trial; there
is nothing to do but lie down gently
upon it and float. But swimming is
an entirely different matter. The mo
ment you begin to "paddle your own
canoe," lively and to the lookers-on
mirth-nrovoking exercises ensue.
When you stick your hands under to ;
make a stroke, your feet decline to stay
anywhere but on top; and when, after I
an exciting tussle with your refrac- j
tory pedal extremities, you again get
them beneath the surface, your hands
fly out with the spalsh and splutter of
a half dozen flutter wheels. If, on
account of your brains being heavier
than your heeis, you chance to turn
a somersault and your head goes under, j
your heels will pop up like a pair of
frisky didapper ducks. You cannot ;
keep more than one end of yourself j
under water at once, but soon learn
how to wrestle with its novelties, and
then it becomes "a thing of beauty and j
a joy for" any summer day. The water i
is delight to the skin, every sensa- j
tion is exhilarating, and one cannot
help feeling in it like a gilded cork
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adritt in a jewei-nmmeu uowi ui
champagne punch. In the sense of
I. tm n.WVi ii'KinVi it anvolniP
luxuriuus case wiui "u-" - v,v .
the bather it is unrivaled on earth.
The only approximation to it Mosquito I
Indian coast. The water does not j
freeze until the thermometric mercury i
tumbles down to eighteen degrees i
above zero, or fourteen degrees below
the ordinary freezing point. It is as ;
clear as crvstal. with a bottom of snow-
White sand, and small objects can be
distinctly seen at a depth of twenty
feet. There is not a fish or any other
living thing in all the twenty-five
hundred or three thousand square. miles
of beautiful and mysterious waters, ex
cept the yearly increasing swarms of
summer bathers. Not a shark or a
stingaree to scare the timid swimmer
or floater, not a crab or a crawfish to
nip the toe of the nervous wader, not
a minnow or a frog, a tadpole or a
pollywog no-hing that live-, moves,
swims, crawl;; or wiggles. It is the
ideal sea-bathing place of the world-Exchange.
TIP WANT ALL
OH NOTHING.
San Diego Not Inclined to Play
Second Fiddle.
JAPANESE STEAMSHIP MATTERS.
San Francisco Will be the California Ter
minusContemplated Order of Cuban Pro
visional Government Will Bum and Des-troy-Spain
Has Troubles of its Own,
SAN DIEGO, August 27. San Diego's
hopes of becoming, the Pacific terminal
of the proposed line of Japanese steam
ers to be operated by the Toyo Kisen
Kaisha received a rude shock yester
day, and it may stated as a certainty
tonight that the vessels will not come
to this port unless President Asano
very materially modifies the terms
which were presented in writing and
over his signature at the conference
of representative business men of this
city and Los Angeles today. The meet
ing was held in the latter city and A.
H. Butler was in attendance as the
representative of Asano. It was the
opening sentence of the Japanese ship
ping magnate's proposition that caused
the trouble. It reads as follows:
"Gentlemen: The Oriental Steamship
Company of Japan proposes to estab
lish and maintain a line of first-class
steamships of a tonnage of not less
than 4500 tons each and capable of
making fifteen knots an hour to call
at least once a month at San Diego and
run to and from Japanese and Chinese
ports, touching en route at Honolulu
and San Francisco, provided reason
able assurances are given it by your
cities that its enterprise will receive
sufficient support."
Then came the further conditions
calling for guarantees of 4000 tons per
sailing at six silver Japanese yen per
ton, etc. But the representatives of
San Diego and Los Angeles g.ave little
thoughts to these details. The an
nouncements that the vessels would
go to San Francisco was enough. There
was a unanimous disposition on the
part of the committee to reject the
proposition, as it was radically differ
ent from the verbal understanding had
with President Asano when he was
here a few weeks ago. At that con
ference San Francisco did not enter in
the negotiations and there was consid
erable surprise manifested today over
the evident desire of the Japanese to
make San Diego of rather secondary
importance.
There was no ill-will expressed by
any of the committee against San Fran
cisco, but the proposition was primari
ly to make San Diego the exclusive
terminus of the line, and under the
circumstances the committee felt that
it would not be fair to Southern Cali
fornia to exact a large freight guar
antee from Los Angeles and San Diego
and allow San Francisco to control the
passenger traffic on the line. This idea
was promptly embodied in a resolution
which declares that the proposition
cannot be accepted in its present form
and is respectfully referred back to
the company with their promise of
friendly co-operation and interest in
any line which they may establish be
tween Japan and Southern California.
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OKDERS TO RUIN CUBA.
General Gomez Will at Onoo lieia to
Devastate the rlanl.
New York, August 23. The Provis
ional Government of the Cuban Repub
lic has issued orders to inaugurate a
campaign of destruction on the island.
By this destruction a twofold object is
to be gained. The loss of an immense
cash income is expected to shorten
Spain's warfare, and the conversion of
the island into a wilderness to compel
her to withdraw her armies.
All classes of property, whether foreign-owned
or nor, are to treated
alike, as all pay tribute to Spain. The
dread necessity for wholesale destruc
tion is laid entirely upon the need of
the further and complete ruin for Spain
of the money-producing power of
Cuba.
The proclamation further prohibits
any preparation for the coming sugar
season, either in planting, cultivation
or care of the sugar cane; forbids cane
grinding during the coming season;
and holds all planters who disobey all
or any part of the proclamation to be
traitors subject to the penalty of death.
If the latest Government edict meets
the approval of the Junta, of New York
and if it is carried out it will complete
the ruin of Cuba, and no sugar at all
will be made next season.
The cultivation of tobacco, the other
great Cuban industry, is already com
pletely paralyzed. What small amounts
are being shipped into Havana over
the few railroads still running are al
most entirely the fag ends of last
year's crop, sent from warehouse in
the smaller garrisoned towns.
The principal Cuban idea in destroy
ing Cuban property outside of crip
pling Spain's finances is to force the
Spanish troops to exactly the same
life thtit they themselv f Aov. By
taking away all protections the troops
j will have to endure the sudden and
i great alternations of heat and chill.
l: dry and wet, and a high mortality
from fevers is consequently expected.
Bv this severe remedy the Spanish
columns are also to be deprived of se
cure camping places, and thus rendered
more easy to approach and attack. The
winter's campaign will be devoted to
destruction, and the Cubans are sang
uine that in so doing they will accom
plish all the ends mentioned.
General Gomez is commanded to no
tify all the military sub-chiefs to begin
at once the rigid enforcement of these
provisions.
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OOIXKKD CADETS.
Navy Stirred up Over Anpohtment to
Academy at Aunpoli.
WASHINGTON, August 2S. The
Navy Department is stirred up over
the prospect of two colored naval of
ficers. It has just been leained that
among the young men who have pre
sented themselves at the naval acade
my, Annapolis, for physical examina
tion next week are two very bright
young colored men. One of them it
from California, while the other repre
sents a Chicago district. Nothing was
known as to their color or antecedents
until a day or two ago, because each of
them received the appointment from
his Congressman, after having won
his district competitive examination.
Several years ago a colored youth
was appointed a cadet to Annapolis
and the authorities of the academy
compelled his white associates to treat
him with every official courtesy. On
one occasion a cadet trom the South,
on being, ordered to fence with the
colored cadet, threw down his foils
and indignantly refused to cross swords
with him. The white cadet was prompt
ly dismissed. The colored cadet, how
ever, at the examinations of 1876, when
he was in the second year, was drop
ped. Since that time no colored men
have been at the academy. The two
candidates who will report next week
are not likely, however, to fall at any of
the mental examinations which they
must undergo during their stay at the
academy, because of the remarkable
intelligence they displayed at the com
petitive examinations, where they won
their appointment. If, therefore, they
are graduated, the young naval officers
of four years hence may have to bunk
with colored roommates.
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AF FAIRS IN SPAIN.
Revolutionary Conspiracy Discovered
In Gerona.
MADRID, August 27. The Govern
ment having dropped the railways bill,
the Liberals have agreed to stop all
further opposition to the budget. The
Chamber of Deputies today, by a vote
of 186 to 34, adopted bills providing for
the farming out of the tobacco monop
oly and for leasing the Alamedan
quicksilver mines.
A revolutionary conspiracy has been
discovered and frustrated at Gerona
capital of a province of the same name
northeast of Barcelona.
Pigeons Outwit a Hawk.
The Southern Sportsman told recently
about a flock of pigeons that measui
brains with a hawk and came out on
top in the contest. H. S. Edwards owned
a flock of pigeons which one day were
cut off from their cote by a large hawk.
The pigeons knew that if the hawk once
got above them one at least of their
number would go to make the hawk a
meal, and so up they flew in circles,
perhaps hoping to go higher than the
hawk. In the rising game they were no
match for the hawk. The latter kept
under the pigeons and leisurely follow
ed their laborious movements.
Then came a curious and unexpected
sight to Mr. Edwards. Every pigeon
closed its wings, when they appeared to
be the size of sparrows and down they
came past the hawk at a terrific rate.
That astonished the hawk. It actually
dodged the dropping birds and missed
half a dozen wing strokes before it got
in full chase of them. When it got
down to the barnyard, not a pigeon was
in sight some were in the cote, some
in the porch, two in the wellhouse, and
one was in the kitchen. The hawk had
been outwitted completely. It is a ques
tion how the pigeons managed to check
their fall, as they did not slacken up
till they were about 16 or 20 feet above
the ground, when they scattered in all
directions to escape the hawk.
A Peculiar Cough.
At a recent meeting of one of the
French societies a paper was read on
what was diagnosed as a tousilar cough.
This cough is described as violent, spas
modic and painful. It was frequently
accompanied by reflexes in the neighbor
ing region, and particularly by a pro
fuse watering of the eyes. All remedies
ordinarily applied produced no effect
whatever, and as there was no expecto
ration the origin of the cough lias seem
ed obscure. The trouble, however, is ex
plained by familiarity with the struc
ture of the tonsils. Several sets of nerves
center and blend at and near the outer
surface of the tonsils, where they form
what is described under the name of
tonsilar plexus. The tonsils are connect
ed by muscles with the apparatus of the
larynx, a fact which makes treatment
of the tonsils complicated and difficult.
It is a common practice to cut off the
tonsils, but this has been attended with
very grave results. The hearing is some
times affected by this arrangement and
the larynx is necessarily involved. The
best surgeons arc at present very careful
how they perform ajiy surgical opera
tion on the throat or tongue, as it is a
fact past question that very few such
operations are successful in the long run.
There may be temporary relief, but it
is almost invariably shor1., lived. New
York Ledger.
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Limited.
Have Just Received from New York
and England a fine lot of
New Goods
Among them you will find;
CUT and GALVANIZED NAILS and
SPIKES. WIRE NAILS,
COPPER RIVETS and BURRS,
HAY CUTTERS, HAY FORKS,
CYLINDER CHURNS,
SHOVELS and SPADES,
CAST STEEL, BAR IRON,
GALV'D SHEET IRON,
GALV'D BUCKETS and TUBS.
CART AXLES, DOOR LOCKS,
HANDLED AXES and HATCHETS,
IRON and BRASS SCREWS (2000
gross, assorted),
COFFEE MILLS, CORN MILLS,
BLACK RIVETS, HINGES,
LAWN MOWERS,
HORSE SHOES and HORSE NAILS,
MOPS, BROOMS, PADLOCKS, CROW
BARS, CARRIAGE SPRINGS,
SCALES, SAND PAPER,
WRAPPING PAPER,
WHEEL BARROWS, TRUCKS,
3000 YDS. SAIL DUCK,
IRON WASHERS, IRON NUTS,
CASES BENZINE, TURPENTINE,
GALV'D PIPE, in. to 2in.,
MANILA and SISAL ROPE All sizes,
IRON and STEEL WIRE ROPE,
up to 2in.,
2000 lbs. COTTON FISH LINES,
CARD MATCHES, BLOCK MATCHES
SHIP CHANDLERY,
GUNS and AMMUNITION of all kinds.
Success Water Filters:
The best in the market, and a thou
sand other things that people
MUST HAVE.
All to be seen at
E. 0. HALL & SOU'S.
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Cor. King and Fort Sts.
H. Q. BIART,
Jeweler and iimftr,
Gives
- TIMELY NOTICE
That he's now at
Fort
&GT street
Souvenir Spoons and Hawaiian and
Gold Wire Jewelry to Order.
You Can Get
BOUND VOLUMES OF THE
AND
human gazette
From 1890 to 1895,
FROM
The Hawaiian Gazette Co.
Palace Restaurant,
Formerly the Bay Horse Saloon.
Corner Bethel and Hotel Sts.
Special eating house. Private rooms
for Ladies and Gentlemen. Open from
5 a. m. to 1 in the morning.
Price of Tickets, $4.50.
Single Meals, 25 Cents.
4248-m
AT GAZETTE OFFICE.
A Model Plant Is not complete with
out Electric Power, thus dispensing
with small engines.
Why not generate your power from
one CENTRAL Station? One gener
ator can furnish power to your Pump
Centrifugals, Elevators, Plows. Rail
ways and Hoists; also furnish light
and power for a radius of from 15 to 26
miles.
Electric power being used saves the
labor of hauling coal in your field, also
water, and does away with high-priced
engineers, and only have one engine to
look after in your mill.
Where water power is available it
costs nothing to generate Electric
Power.
THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COM
PANY Is now ready to furnish Electrh
Plants and Generators of all descrip
tions at short notice, and also has or
hand a large stock of Wire, Chandel
iers ana Electrical Goods.
All orders will be given prompt at
tention, and estimates furnished foi
Lighting and Power Plants; also at
tention is given to House and Marinf
Wiring.
THEO. HOFFMAN, Manager.
HONOLULU
W. W. WRIGHT, Proprietor.
Carriage Builder
AND REPAIRER.
All orders from the other Islands n
the Carriage Building, Trimming anr
Painting Line will meet with promv
attention.
P. O. BOX 331.
128 AND 130 FORT ST.
C.
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Queen Street, - Honolulu, H. I,
AGENTS FOR
Hawaiian Agricultural Company, Ono
mea Sugar Company, Honomu Sugai
Company, Wailuku Sugar Company
Waihee Sugar Company, Makee Sugai
Company, Haleakala Ranch Company
Kapapala Ranch.
Planters' Line San Francisco Packets
Chas. Brewer & Co.'s Line of Bostor
Packets.
Agents Boston Board of Underwriters
Agents for Philadelphia Board of Un
derwritera.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
P. C. Jones, president; Geo. H. Ru
ertson, manager; E. F. Bishop, treasu jt
and secretary; Col. W. F.. Allen, audi
tor; C. M. Cooke, H. Waterhouse, A. W
Carter, director!.
CASTLE & COOKE
Limited)
LIFE AND FIRE
Insurance Agents.
AGENTS FOR
New England Mill! Life lew
OF IOSTON.
Etna Fire luice Gompony
OF HARTFORD.
CENTRA! MARKET,
Nuiann Street.
THE VERT FINEST OF
Refrigerated Meat
NEW CHCAGO REFRIGERATORS.
WESEROOK, GARES & SCHLIEF,
TelephCie 104. Proprietors.
Daiy Advertiser 75 cents a
monh, delivered by carrier.
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CO., I D.
Gonpony
Indurine.
COLD WATER' PAINT
Kttpeolally lKiirnel tor (MM
Work ou Fat-tort HBd
I'u bite Itulldtmn.
It is a dry powder which can be pre
pared for use by simply stirring tm
COLD WATER, and can be applied bj
anyone, and will always produce gool
work.
It is VERY WHITE, extremely re
flective and hardens on a wall lkxt
stone, and will take any tint.
It will last for years and Is unaffected
by gases.
One coat covers better than two coats
of oil paint or whitewash.
It can be used on any surface and for
all classes of work, even for the finest
decorating.
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This Is for Outside Work.
Such as Fences, Outbuildings, Labor
ers' Quarters. It is a thick paste to bs
diluted with cold water, stands rain
and exposure aa well as oil paint, and
costs but a fraction as much.
Cold Water
Kalsomine
Adapted for Dwellings, Offices and Pub
lic Buildings or any other place where
KALSOMINE is used. It will not nib.
discolor or scale off.
LUCOL
A new Paint Oil. It comes raw and
boiled; is superior to linseed, and covers
with one-third less lead and pigment to
the gallon.
P. and B. Compounds and Papers.
FOR SALE BY
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Agents for tho Hawaiian Islands.
Take an Outing
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Trains will leave at 9:15 a. m. and
1:45 p. m., arriving in Honolulu at 3:11
p. m. and 5:55 p. m.
Round Trip Tickets:
1st Class. 2d Class.
Pearl City 75 $ 60
Ewa Plantation 1 00 76
Waianae 1 60 1 25
CHAS. BREWER & CO.'S
Boston Line of Packets
The bark "AMY TURNER," W. C.
Warland, Master, will sail from New
York for this port on or about October
1st, 1896.
For particulars call or address
Chas. Brewer & Co ,
27 Kilby Street, Boston, or
O, BKEWER & CO.. LTD..
Agents, Honolulu.
YANASE & CO.
Commission -: Merchants
AND DEALERS IN
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PROVISIONS A SPECIALTY.
P. O. Box 189.
Mutual Tel. 917
NUUANU AND QUEEN STS.
8-40-4
THIS IS THE TELEPHONE
NUMBER TO RING UP
If you want any Plumbing. Tin
Work done promptly and properly
I am prepared to do all kinds of
work in my line at the Lowest Pos
sible Rates.
Jobbing a Specialty
JAS. NOTT, JR.,
Tinsmith and Plumber.
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