FAMILY MOURNING.
The Wearing of lllnck Apparel Not n ite-
llnblo Kl(tn of Sorrow.
For one I believe tlint the custom of
wearing mourning npparcl in the way
of a badge of sorrow and aflliction is
going out of use, and tliat tlio time
will come and possibly may not be far
distant when sucli a practice will have
become obsolete. Various reasons may
bo offered why Christian people should
--discountenance such a custom alto
gether. It is said that in European
countries black is employed generally,
because it represents darkness, unto
which death is like, as it is a privation
of life. In China, on the contrary,
white is used, because the people hope
and believe their dead have gone to
Heaven; the place of nil-purity. In
Egypt yellow is worn, because it rep
resents the decaying of (lowers and
trees, which become yellow as they de
cay. In Ethiopia brown is used, since
it denotes the color of the earth from
whence we came and to which we re
turn. In certain parts of Turkey blue
is worn, because this color represents
the sky. where the people trust their
dead have gone; but in other portions
of the empire blue and violet are
adopted, since these colors, being a
blending of black ami blue, represent,
from one point of view sorrow; from
Uio other, hope. Now, in reality, to
wear mourning signifies nothing and
answers no valuable purpose. It is
in, truth no certain index to the state
of the mind. To .see an entire
family clot lied in black a person
would naturally conclude that the
family are true mourners, needing con
solation in their sorrow. Yet what is
the fact in a large majority of
instances? l'opo speaks of those who
bear about the mockery of woe:
"To nililiillit ilancos mill tlio public slinw."
Ami, alas! mourning apparel is but
too often "the mockery of woe." The
great expense incurred in providing
mourning garments is also a considera
tion of weight which should not be
overlooked. The clothing of an entire
family, and especially where the family
is large, in mourning garments is no
trifling matter. Of course the wealthy
and such as can afford the expense
make no account of it, but to those who
are poor or are in moderate circum
stances it is a serious tax, and in fact
proves nothing short of a most grievous
pecuniary burden. Ami in many eases
the custom of wearing mourning
amounts to a prodigal waste of money.
Many families are abundantly supplied
with clothing, the wardrobe is filled
with siiporlluous garments, and speedi
ly, perhaps, the mourning apparel is
laid aside so that it is the same as
money thrown away. An estimate
made of the amount of money ex
pended in purchasing such apparel
would astonish, I fancy, almost any
community in the laud. Besides, what
is there in the good moral inlluence
arising from such a custom to balance
this vast expenditure? (Iconic Newell
Lowjoy, in Good Ihusikeeping.
ALL ABOUT GOLD.
Hint
fur I'itmiim Who Aro About to 1'nr-
I'hilMti Mine In thti Kur Went,
Auriferous gravels can of course only
exist where auriferous quart, veins
existed before them. Without a bank
to draw upon in the first place, you can
not possibly get your bullion. In Cali
fornia the materials that make up the
gold-bearing gravel beds were washed
down by streams ami Hoods in the Plio
cene period from the mountain tops
above and dcposit' d in the basins of
ancient lakes and rivers now no more.
(ut Pliocene gravid would, under nat
ural circumstance., long .since have
been washed away. It has been pre
served in California to the days of Hill
Nye anil Jones ol Calaveras, by a pe
culiar accident which those amiable
gentlemen would no doubt regard as
"almost providential" for the mining
interest. Toward the close of the
genial Pliocene epoch, that usually
well-conducted chain, the Sierra Ne
vada, suddenly burst forth "on the
spree" into volcanic activity on a grand
and generally Western American scale.
Like the cowboys who "paint the town
red" in their simple joy, it covered the
auriferous gravels with showers of
pumice, ashes ami pebbles, and finally
capped the entire mass with a broad
sheet of solid basalt and lava. Not
only did this great prehistoric eruption
overwhelm the mastodons, Pliocene
lamas and other extinct animals whose
bones ami teeth still pleasantly diver
sify the California diggings (giving in
cidental occasion to the celebrated
society upon the Stanislaw), but it also
buried beneath its ash and lava the
famous ami initeh-debated Cavalcras
skull, which, if genuine, is the oldest
fragment of a human body now known
to exist, anywhere. The capping of
lava varies from one hundred to one
hundred ami llfty feet in thickness,
and it has preserved from erosion the
subjacent gravel which would other
wise hate been swept away, ami so
rendered posibh) the very existence of
the California diggings and the town
of San Francisco. Cornhill Mtujtuine.
- i m t
A Fourth Warder, says the Now
York Sun, slopped a dignified man on
the How cry recently, saying: "Say,
joung teller, give me a" light, will
ycr?" "I will give you a light," said
the gentleman, "but 1 am not a young
feller, and that is not the way to ad
di 'Wis mu." The Fourth Warder got a
light, and as he handed the cigar back,
witli his politest manner wild: "Thank
J ou, pop."
- The following sign adorns tlio
front of a boot-blacking establishment
on Blnekstono street, Huston: "Pedal
teguments artistically illuminated, lu
bricated ami embellished for the fit tin
Itcsiimil compensation or remuneration
of lite ceuU per operation."
CARE OF THE SKIN.
A Sjstnn or Dint nncl Kxerelse That Will
Amur a (Inoit Complexion.
Plenty of exercise, good, wholesome
food, well digested, will do more for
the complexion than all the toilet ap
pliances in the world. Use the llesh
brush with vigor, walk, ride, row, run,
giving every muscle in tlio body some
thing to do; eat beef, brown bread,
cereals, fruit, vegetables and milk, and
a good complexion must lie the result.
Wood, nourishing food must be eaten
and well digested ; the circulation
equalized by plenty of exercise in the
open air and frequent bathing. Each
woman must be a law unto herself as
to the number and temperature of the
baths, as what strengthens ami braces
ii one may be found to weaken and
enervate another.
For those who have vitality enough
to react, the cold sponge bath in the
morning will bo found a delightful
tonic. Delicate women will find that
by beginning them in the warm
weather they will, in most cases, bo
able to continue during the entire year.
A handful of sea salt dissolved in the
water will do much to strengthen the
weak chest or back. In many cases
the hot bath at nightquiots the nerves,
refreshes the body, and induces sleep,
lint care should be taken not to remain
in the watci too long; otherwise it will
he found debilitating.
Distilled water is, of course, the best,
but as all can not like Queen Victoria
aflbrd so expensive a luxury, it will
be found that clean rain water or any
,s-oft water will do nearly as well.
I Hose wno can not ootain either one
of these may use a few drpps of am
monia, which will make the hardest
water soft and clean oil" all impurities.
A box of powdered borax is also an
indispensable article upon the toilet
table; a pinch of this will soften the
water and is said to whiten the skin.
Oat meal used externally and eaten
frequently is very beneficial to the
skin, as are also cracked wheat and
other cereals. Put a handful of oat
meal in a howl and pour a cup of boil
ing water over it. When this is settled
wash the hands ami face in the starchy
water that rises to the top 'of it. The
continued use of this for a week and
the wearing of gloves at night will
soften and whiten the roughest and
darkest skin.
Ladies with oily or greasy skins may
use, sparingly, a few drops of camphor
in the bath, or a few drops of diluted
carbolic acid. The latter removes the
odor of perspiration from the body
and leaves it clean, wholesome smell.
Care should be taken that it is not used
too strong, as it is not only poisonous,
hut the odor is very offensive to some
people. Borax and glycerine combined
are used with good effect by some
ladies, while thoroughly disagreeing
with others, (ilyrcriuo alone softens
and heals, but used too frequently will
darken the skin and make it very sensi
tive; the borax obviates this and has a
tendency to whiten.
'fo remove tan and sunburn use a
preparation composed of equal parts
of glycerine and rose-water, to which
mid the juice of two lemons after hav
ing strained it through line muslin.
More or less rose-water mey be used to
make tin preparation the required con
sistency, as it is rather disagreeable if
ilieky. I'resh freckles may frequently
he removed by touching the discolora
tion with a tiny earners hair brush
flipped in lemon juice.
Finely powdered pumice-stone, which
may bo had at any druggist's, is very
.'llicacious in removing all superfluous
mil roughened skin. Hub the hands
uid face thoroughly with it, dry, then
wash oil' with tepid water and soap,
l'he use of warm water is also very
hcucticial; some people go so far as to
vlai m that the continued use of it will
not only preserve the skin, but prevent
wrinkles.
The proper toilet observances at night
should be considered as a personal
duty. Home Knowledge.
SMALL BEGINNINGS.
I'ho Dullclit SI t'll Tukit III Kcllltlnc
Mm
Story ot Tlii'lr l'ro;rei.
Man is made in the image of Hod,
iiiul his mind is peculiarly interested
i till impressed by this feature of the
Divine handiwork. And when, on a
far humbler scale, it characterizes his
tiwn works, he is greatly moved. Wit
ness the delight of the school-boy when
i handful of snow rolled patiently
ilong the garden becomes a huge
lump, taller than himself. Witness
,ho satisfaction of some laborious writ
er, who for years upon years has been
'.oiling at some dictionary, or a history
if the world, or a philosophy of the
aniverse, or some such tusk, ami at
last sies the slender lir.t day's page
multiplied into a work of a dozen
norinous volumes. A successful man
if the peoplo who founded an institute
in a provincial town in Scotland,
placed in it a little green box, more in
teresting to him than to the public, be
cause when he started in life it con
tained the whole of his earthly posses
sions, lu the hall of a splendid man
sion on the edge of Loch Lomond I
have seen the picture of a little sailing
resel, which carried the owner and all
Ids goods when lie set out for the East
to begin w hat proved a vast and most
lucrative business. And how often at
tirenides, or dinner tables, in the course
uf friendly saunters by the way, do
men who have acquired a position de
light to rehearse the story of their
progress; and how interested are most
if us in hearing or reading how the
julf was spanned between the lawyer's
til's t brief and the woolsack, or the
lector's first foe ami tho baronetcy, or,
u the caw uf the Amerioan President,
between the log cabin and tho White
tloiuc. - (Juticr.
J SUPERSTITIOUS TERROR.
1 The I'ownr It May Kiort Upon tlio Strength
, anil I?vn Life of H Mini.
Ono of tho survivors of an early
Polar expedition lately told an incident
which illustrates tho power which
superstitious terrors may exert upon
the strength and even life of a man
One of the strongest anil most hopeful
members of the expedition was a young
Scotcliiunn. The party was obliged to
spend the second winter on tho ice
the rations were low, and many of the
men already had died of scurvy and
cold.
C , the Edinburgh man. though
weak, was the life of the party. His
joke and laugh never failed. One
night, after they had shifted cam) to
new place, lie sanl: "I am sure to go
back home. An old Gypsy read my
fortune ten vears ago. I am to die in
Van Dicman's Land, and it's many a
league from here to there.
"Not so far," said one of his com
panions. "The captain named this
place 'Demon's Land' this morning.
J Hat is near enough, for your pur
pose.
The .Scotchman laughed uneasily,
Hut from that moment lie gave up all
onenry and hope. In twenty-four
hours he was dead. Cold ami hunger
did their part. But it was fear that
killed him at last.
Among the records of Washington's
campaign of 1777, a well accredited
story is told of a young English olllcer,
Lord Percy, who served under Corn
wallis. On riding to the crest of the
hill which overlooked the Hrandywine,
he suddenly cheeked his horse and
looked about him in silence for a few
moments. Ho then said to a friend:
"I dreamed of this place before I left
Lnglaud. I saw it all, in every detail.
1 shall die here." He called his sen-'
ant, and gave him his tnonev, watch
and a message for his mother. He was
one of tho first men to fall in the en
gagement. The coincidence was singu
lar. But when wo consider that prob
ably ninety men in every hundred go
into a battle believing that thev shall
fall in it, the proof of the truth of pre
sentiments, is not. established by one or
two fulfilled premonitions.
No record is preserved of the cases
in which a very strong presentiment is
followed by events which bear no re'
semblance to those anticipated. These,
nevertheless, constitute so large a pro
portion of the whole that when the
matter is viewed merely as a problem
of chances, it is extremely improbable
that any particular presentiment will
be fulfilled. ioutli a Companion.
ABOUT SPECTACLES.
I'l'oplc Jn'ot no Thnlil About Wearing Thmn
l 'I boy 1'm'cI to lie.
"I do not think that eye troubles are
on tint increase, said a dealer in
optical goods, "although the demand
for spectacles is greater in proportion
than the growth of population. The
reason for the .increase is that people
have less timidity about using specta
cles. I here is an impression, not yet
eflaced, that the use of spectacles once
begun can never be laid aside. This
is not true. The fact is that a person
who really ought to use spectacles bv
putting nil' the adoption of them only
necessitates the wearing of a hignei'
number when he does put them on;
whereas, it be had worn spectacles in
time he might have so nursed his ocular
strength as to discard tliemat pleasure,
for a period at least."
"Are not eye-glasses very often worn
when there is no real need for them?"
"Quite likely they are," replied tho
dealer, "but I notice that the salo of
eye-glasses docs not keep up in tho
same proportion as the sale of specta
cles. The eye-glass mania seem, to he
dying out.
"Where are spectacle manufac
turcd?"
"The frames are made in this coun
try. Foreigners can not compete with
us in making the frames. Tho pebbles
are mostly ground abroad. Pebbles
are also ground to order heroin special
eases."
"1 would sooner soil one pair of
spectacles to a man," added the dealer,
"than half a dozen to a woman. A
woman seems to be more anxious as to
how she will look in the spectacles
than how she will look through them,
and seems to think we ought to have
looking glasses here as big as thoso in
tlie dry goods stores." A'. F. Sun.
Sharks In tho Rhine.
In a bathing establishment in the
Hhine at Wyltlen, near Basle, conster
nation was caused not very long ago
by the capture of a shark of the species
called spotted dogfish, its presence in
the peaceful waters of the Khiue was
finally accounted for as follows: Years
ago there was employed in the large
chemical works of Wyhlen a gentleman
who was greatly interested in zoological
researches and to whom it occurred to
try whether salt-water fish could not
live in the salt springs of Wyhlen. He
had a number of fish sent him from (lie
aoologienl garden of Frankfort-oii-the-Mnin,
but the experiment proved a
failure; most of the young fish died,
and he tliiHfly threw the survivors into
an outlet of the springs emptying into
tlio Hhine. It seems that just there
the conditions were favorable to the
propagation of some of the tlsh. Al
ready last May, a laborer while bath
ing was bitten in the leg by what he
described as a large animal, but his
story was not believed. Now, however,
since the presence of sharks has been
iudubituhly demonstrated, the author
ities have warned tho inhabitants of
that region against bathing in tho
Hhine. The shark lived nearly a day
nftvr its capture, and was stmt to tho
museum at Cnrlsruliu.--8wiiJ Ga-
JUDGING AT SHOWS.
Views of n Writer Who llnm Not Ilellnvo In
KxIstiiiR Method.
I have never been able to seo that
justice would be done by a slavish ad
herence to the card, and unless it is to
be strictly observed, it would bo better
to leave it alone except as .i mere
sailing chart, which a capable
mariner would not frequently re
quire to consult. itic ctitiicuity in
apportioning values by a gen
eral. standard of merit is manifest. If
an animal is decidedly deficient in an
important point, it should not be al
lowed a place among the winners at
all, whereas it might happen, by a
mere enumeration of the counts as
signed upon the basis of an ideal stand
ard of perfection, that it would come
out at the top of the list.
Although I am of opinion that breed
ers and critics should alike exercise a
little restraint in commenting upon
tlio decisions of the judges as given
under the present system, and in sug'
gesting either incapacity or unfairness
on their part, I am far, indeed, from
considering that improvement in tlio
method of adjudication is undesirable
It is a marvel to me that the mode of
selecting and appointing judges has
not long ago been reformed. hen
shows were established it was not re
niarKaiiie mat a detective plan was
adopted, Imt why we should have gone
on in these lines for a hundred years
is inconiprohens'ti'le Could any thing
be more ridiculous than wJiat occurred
in several classes at Heading recently?
we aro told that a Short-horn breeder
and a Hereford breeder decided upon
the merits of Short-horns and Ilerefords,
ami a Devon breeder and a Sussex
breeder did the like service for Devons
and Sussex. 1 have nothing whatever
to say against the qualifications of the
gentlemen whose names appear in the
catalogue as regards their own variety
ol stoeK some ot mem l Know are
very high but I have yet to learn what
special fitness they possess for deter
mining nice points m character and
form in the case of breeds they have
never themselves owned or reared.
What would a manufacturer, showing
goods at tho inventions exhibition,
think if an expert in iron work were
appointed to decide upon his ingen
iously-designed articles of upholstery,
or a rope anil twine manufacturer on
delicate specimens of textile fabrics.
It seems to me that there are onlr
twointelligiblesystenisof judging one
is for the society privately to select a
jury of six or ten, or any number above
the orthodox three, and let them ar
range the order of merit. This is tho
happy family arrangement, a very
pretty specimen of rural felicity. The
other, and to my mind the practical
and businesslike method, is to appoint
a single expert judge. Most of the
breeds have now specialist societies to
look after their interests. Let them
recommend a number of their most
distinguished members to the agricult
ural .societies as competent judges
The societies will be compelled to ap
point one of the authorized pidges, be-
cau if they do not their show can be
boycotted. The name of the judge
should he published when the schedules
are sent out. and breeders would then
be in a position to know whether it is
worth while to exhibit under him. If
a judge proves himself incompetent or
displays partiality once, he is not likely
to have an opportunity ot exercising
judicial functions again. The judge
should he a man of sullieient intelli
gence to be able to draw up a detailed
statement as to his work, and he should
be obliged to deposit this written report
with the secretary, so that exhibitors
could have an opportunity of consult
ing it.
Against the adoption of some plan as
this, for which I need hardly say I lay
no claim to originality, there are no
arguments except those of frivolity or
sentiment. The show system has re
cently been compared to a "comic
grammar," and as at present conducted
it tloos not wholly escape from this re
proach. Tho late secretary of the
national society could say no better of
the chief work of his institution than
that it was throwing down money to be
scram Died for. isow these aro not
times when agriculturists can waste
money ou "comic business" or undig
nified scrambling. The shows, 1 be
lieve, are of very real value, anil even
under their present faulty manage
ment they have done more for agricult
ure ,thnu all the wasteful and abortive
field experiments that ever were at
tempted. But the time lias come for a
change of method as regards judging,
mil also in other points, as to which I
have not left myself room to write.
llritish liirc'Stoek Journal.
How Is Business?
To tlio question, "How's business?"
the tailor answers: Sew, sew; the ac
robat, jumping; the yachtsman, boom
ing; the distiller, still; the baker, ris
ing; the writing master, nourishing;
the trial justice, fine; the apartment
hotel keeper, flat; the weather bureau
clerk, fluctuating; the plumber, pi
ing; the gardener, springing up; the
furniture t,eiuster, on the move; the
minister whose church is in debt, fair;
the shoemaker, awl right, with an up
jK'r tendency; the rag gatherer,
picking up; the hod carrier and the
elevator Ixiy, now up ami now down;
the undertaker, rim into the ground;
(lie doctor, recovering; the cobbler, ou
the mend; the astronomer, looking up;
the cooper, (w)hooping her up; tho
ieronaut, going up; the divor, going
town. notion Courier.
About half the work of reclaiming
the Potomac lints has been completed,
unci J3T6 acres have boeu evolved for the
pic ndid new park that the flats are to
(urnish.
THE KISS IN HISTORY.
Curloin Cixtoin Obtaining In Mnny Tor
tious of the tllobe.
There was an old belief that unless a
maiden was kissed under the mistletoe
at Christmas she would not be married
during the ensuing year.
When Fox was contesting the hard
won seat at Westminster the beautiful
Du dicss of Devonshire offered to kiss
all who voted for the great statesman.
In the ceremonial of betrothal a kiss
ha played an importantpart in several
nations. A nuptial kiss in church, at
the conclusion of the marriage service,
is solemnly enjoined by the York Mis
sal and the Sarum Manual.
The beautiful Lady Gordon, when
the ranks of the Scottish regiments had
been sadly thinned by cruel Badajos
and Salamanca, turned recruiting .ser
geant, ami, to tempt tho gallant lads,
placed the recruiting shilling in iicr
lips, whence each who would might
take it with his own.
In Finland, according to Bayard
Taylor, the women resent as an insult
a salute upon the lips. A Finish mat
ron, hearing of our English custom of
kissing, declared that did her husband
attempt such a liberty she would treat
him with such a box on the ears that he
should not readily forget.
In Wesley's journal, tlated Juno 1G,
17S, is given the following description
of a duel between two officers at Lim
erick: "Mr. H. proposed tiring at
twelve yards, but Mr. J. said: 'No, six
is enough.' So they kissed one another
(poor farce!) and before they were five
paces asunder Doth lirctl at tlio in
stant."
The Code of Justinian says "that if
a man bothered a woman by a kiss and
eith..- party died before marriage the
heirs were entitled to half the dona
tions and the survivor to tho other
half; but if the contract was made
without the solemn kiss, the whole of
tl: espoused gifts must be restored to
tho donors and their lieirs-at-law.
1 lie Mohammedans, on their pious
pilgrimage to Mecca, kiss the sacred
black stone and the four corners of
the kaaba. The Homan priest kisses
tlio aspergillum, and Palm Sunday tho
palm. Kissing the Pope s toe was
fashion introduced bv one of tho Loos,
who, it is said, had mutilated his right
hand, and was too vain to expose tho
stump.
In Iceland kissing had deterred pen
alties of great severity. For kissing
another man's wife, with or without
her consent, the punishment of exclu
sion, or its pecuniary equivalent, was
awarded. A man rondeiod himself lia
ble for kissing an unmarried woman
under legal guardianship without her
consent, and, if the lady consented,
o law required that every kiss should
bo wiped out by a fine of three marks
equivalent to one hundred and forty
ells of wadmal a quantity sullieient to
furnish a whole ship's crew with pilot
jackets.
in uussia tho Eastern salutation is a
kiss. Each member of the family
salutes tho other; chance acquaintances
on meeting kiss; principals kiss their
employes; the General kisses his ofli-
cers; tlio ollicers kiss their soldiers;
the Czar kisses his family, retinue,
court and attendants, and oven his
ollicers on parade, the sentinels at the
palace gates, and a select party of
private soldiers probably elaborately
prepared for this "royal salute. In
other parts the poorest serf, meeting a
high-born dame in the street, has but
to say, "Christ is risen," and he will
receive a kiss ami the reply, "He has
risen, truly."
Home, in his quaint old "Table
Book," gives an account of a curious
old kissing festival held in Ireland:
"Easter Monday several hundred
young persons of the town and neigh
borhood of Potsfcrry, County Down,
resort, dressed in their best, to a
pleasant walk near the town, called
'The Waller.' Tho avowed object of
each person is to see tho fun, which
consists in tlio men kissing the females
without reserve, whether married or
single. this mode ot salutation is
quite a matter of course; it is never
taken anus, nor with much show of
coyness. Ihn female must be ordinary
indeed who returns home without hav
ing received at least a dozen hearty
busses." Chicago Tribune.
Beware of Old Corks.
"It is strange," saitl a physician the
other day, "that in spite of the great
interest taken nowadays in the purity
of food and drink, no ono has called
attention to an abuse that is as dan
gerous ns it is dirty. 1 rofer to tho
second-hand cork business. Every in
telligent person, every paper ami the
hoard of health should protest against
it. Their use should be prohibited un
der all circumstances. Corks once
used aro not fit to cut-down, bleached
or pressed and used a second time
They may bo ever so well cleaned, the
fermenting vegetations that get into
the cracks ami internal fissures, com
municate decay, disease and death to
liquids thev aro used to preserve
Corks that lie around for wooks among
the tilth anil dirt of bar-rooms can not
ln purified. There are several firms
in this city that tlo an extensive busi
ness among lot tiers of light wines,
welss-beer brewers, sauce ami patent
medicine manufacturers in these
second-hand corks, and the business
should be supprosod." A'. Y. Mail
nd Nzprcst.
"My dear," said a vory sick hus
band, "if 1 tlie will you see that my
grave is kept green?" "Yes, John,"
was tho sobbing reply, "lpu know
how gladly I would do ns much for
you," lie said, jjioii tho Duly timed
lor t9.M'S and the sick man tjot well.
.V. Y. Sun.
KALAKAUA'S PALACE.
The Oorceoan Structure Krecteil by tin
I'mtllgnte Ilntrnllun Monurcb.
The foundation stone of Iolani Palace
was laid with full Masonic ceremonials
(Kalaknua being a prominent Mason)
on Queen Kapiolani's birthday, tlio
last day in tho year 1879. It stands on
an immense block, close to the heart ot
the city, bounded by King, Richard and
Likelike streets and Palace Walk. The
palace itself covers an area of 140x120
feet, being thus nearly square. It con
sists of two stories and a basement. It
lias a large central tower and a smaller
tower on each of the four corners.
From the base to the top of the central
tower it is 8 1 feet high. The original
surmised cost was .00,000. but by 1880
!?lo,000 had been expended anil a fur
ther appropriation of $80,000 was
asked to complete it. Then its comple
tion was promised for 1881, but at its
opening in 1883 the whole affair was
found to have cost S3 10,000. It is built
of brick (cemented) from designs by
Baker, remodeled by C. J. Wall, and
the exterior is elaborately ornamented,
while the interior is well, an artistic
surprise. In all there are forty rooms,
and considering that all but those in
the basement are seldom used, it will
puzzle the rentier to imagine what
could lie arranged in so many apart
ments. But the Hawaiian Kainehame
has were powerful and had many visit
ors,' besides which Kalaknua himself
has been almost round the globe, ami
the foundation of decorative on! ers
brings about tho promulgation of still
more decorative gifts, so that Iolani
Palace is literally loaded with curiosi
ties, both novel and ornamental. Tho
front or state entrance to tlio
palace, which entrance is only used on
very special occasions, is on King
street, nearly opposite the Government
buildings. Entering the palace this
way, then, the visitor comes first of all
to a very broad hall leading from this
entrance, each side of the staircase,
and then right through to the back or
palace walk end of the building. The
first room to the right of this hall is
the thr-ine, room, and here is enough
conglomeration of the barbaric anil the
modern to mystify the beholder. All
round the walls are well executed por
traits of the former Kings of Hawaii,
and at the extreme end a portrait
which both the King and Queen haVo
often silently gazed upon. It is an oil
painting of Kaahumanu, a wife of
Kamohninoha the Great, who after his
death, became Prime Minister and was
virtually monarch during the short
reign of Kaniehamcha II. Perhaps
Kapiolani objects to her name ("Ca
tive of Heaven") as she looks on this
savage dame's determined features
and longs to emulate her. But her
spouse knows that those despotic times
have long since gone by. Here, also,
are the marvelous royal feather robes,
tho gorgcousness of which no one can
imagine. The robe used by Kalakaua.
and exhibited in this throne room, is
the identical ultimo (mantle) worn by
the groat first Kainehatneha. It is
eleven feet in width and five feet in
length, and made entirely of golden
feathers from the Oo, or royal bird.
Only two feathers are found (one un
der each wing) on each bird. As it
takes a thousand feathers to make an
ordinary necklace, what a vast quanti
ty must this robe contain! And this is
not only the collection of a lifetime,
hut the combination of tlie hoards of
eight or ten successive chiefs. At tho
opening of Parliament this robo is
spread upon the throne as symbolical
of royalty, but at other times it is al
ways kept over in tlie palace, and it is
said that Kalakaua was once discov
ered alone in tho throne room with this
robo around him gesticulating anil
voicing forth vowels to his ancestors
like a child with a new toy. Kalaknua
is now fifty-one years of age and has
been drawing 'fi'.'i.OOO a year since bu
started, besides extra money being
paid his Queen, his and her staffs and
their household expenses. Although
the King has an interest in three sa
loons anil has some good properly in
laud, and certainly often helps some of
his poor subjects, yet the mass of this
wealth goes for tlio Poi feasts anil Hula
tlances, in which his predecessors also
reveled. Even when the white people
aro now invited, the oltl name of Lima
(native feast) is used, and the gyra
tions of tho finger round the calabash
of sticktaro form tlie principal event.
Hula dances are even given in tho
palace grounds, but under great re
strictions, and shorn, in the presence
of Europeans, of their dominant feat
ures. See Kalakaua ou a state occa
sion, and, fairly corpulent as ho is, lie
seems hardly to have room to hold his
medals, and decorations all one blazu
of useless glitter. But creep down to
the Union saloon early some evening.
There you will see his Majesty King
Kalakaua of the Hawaiian Islands, sit
ting before a toddy, dressed in an oltl
blue serge suit, with a cheap straw hat
on tho back of his head, and looking,
all! far happier, after all. Boston
Transcript,
A littlo girl, who had been careful-
,ly trained by her mother, was being
dressed for church Sunday. Tlie gay
gown had been put on nutl the lfttlo
one surveyed herself with evident sat
isfaction. "Mamma." she said, "doe
Gotl see evrv thing?" "Certainly,
dear," said tlie mother. "Does ho see
mo now?"t "Why, yes," replied the
astonished matron. "Well, then, Ho
sees a pretty neat looking little girl,
doesn't He, mamma?"-Exchange.
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Ned's father took him' in bathing
tills week for tho lirst time. Ned h
four years old. Next day somebody
askod him. htnv ho likod it. "Well,"
he said, "I liked it first rate, but I
wish God would turn on tho hot water
faucet HvsL"8oniervillc Journal.