Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 35, 13 December 1908 — Page 9

PAGE SINE. I PUZZLING CLIMATE CASTRO IS FUMING m IS The Curious" Way in Which Rain Polio in Ralmu Dislikes French Government's - . Actions Towards Him. IF IT COMES FROM IIHIII I UIIVJ III WUIIIIJ Honolulu. IV PERPLEXING SPECTACLE. INTERVIEWS PROHIBITED.

THE BICH3IOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUXDAY, BECE3IBER 13, 1908.

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The most perplexing thing about Hawaii's climate to the new arrival s the matter ot rainfall. You begin to experience this perplexity before !rou hare set foot on the dock at Honoulu, when you consult anxiously with tour fellow travelers as to the advisability of digging out an umbrella or falnproof before you go ashore. The fhancea are that you are all convinced Ihat the heavy veil of black clouds tvhicb shuts out portionsof the mountain scenery from view and the few Erops of rain which the fresh shore reeze dashes In your face like flashing Jewels torn from that bit of rainbow are warnings too plain to be ignored, and you prepare accordingly for the downpour which seems Imminent. You observe with some surprise that bone of the wearers of the dainty costumes you pass on the street appear to be in the least perturbed by the possibility of getting caught in the impending shower until after awhile it dawns en you that the storm keeps right on Impending and nothing more. As you ride in a street car along the flashing sea beach, vivid with color of breaking surf and of flowers in trees and hedges along the way, the sunshine never appeared so brilliant. But off to the left in a beautiful little valley tucked like a deep pocket in the mountains and seemingly scarcely half a mile away there can be no doubt of the fact that a good, heavy rain is falling. The sunlight striking through the falling drops fills the valley with r glory of broken up rainbows a riot of color that causes one to gasp and exclaim in admiration. There can be n doubt that the rain we have seen tarn

Ing is real and that it is as near as It eecms, for the wind now and then carries refreshing dashes of it Into the open car, causing a few of the passengers to change their seats to the opposite side. But still the street is perfectly dry and the sunshine as bright as ever. Five minutes later we leave the car at i be foot of a great jagged pile of Volcanic rock that marks the vent of a prehistoric volcano, and the red base and sides which support a stunted, mesquite-like growth and a few cacti look as though they hadn't had a good hower for six months. And they probably haven't. '. . In time one learns that Hawaii's climate is purely a matter of locality; that the report f the rainfall for any given time, published by the United ptates weather bureau, does not mean lor every place in the territory nor for

th? island" ofOahn nor even for the"

city" of : Honolulu, but only for the place where the rain gauge stands. It would not be true for a place half or three-cfuarters of a mile away. One learns that -ho- may live in Honolulu tinder very different conditions as to preripitation, accordine to .location. In oiitfe oi tne valleys' rain rails practically every day of the year and varies In amount In different parts of the same valley, which may be only a mile or two long. There are other sections In which the splendid lawns and bowers of green foliage which surround beautiful homes are only possible through constant Irrigation. And there are to be found almost every degree of moisture between these extremes. Like everywhere else, one finds people of every turn of mind in Honolulu as to; the most desirable places in which' to live. In sections where the rainfall may amount to two or three' hundred 'inches per year vegetation flourishes most luxuriantly and with a minimum of attention. There is also an absence of humid feeling in the atmosphere or disagreeable dampness which 1 one usually associates with much rainfall. This Is accounted for by the fact that the rain comes in showers, of which a dozen or more may come in a day and may occur while the sun is shining brightly, while the never failing trade winds and a porous soil dry up the surface moisture within a few -minutes after a shower has passed. The heaviest precipitation also usually occurs at night. In the dry sections. If one has plenty of water , with which to irrigate (and Honolulu has a splendid system of waterworks with ample supply), on may more easily control what he would grow and at the same time escape the Inconvenience of oft occurring showers. Some of Honolulu's most beautiful residence districts as well as the beautiful Kapiolani park, one of the most beautiful tropical gardens in the world, was originally barren sand plains, practically devoid of vegetatlou and once thought to be worthless. The newcomer is often puzzled to hear an old resident refer to "the plains" when speaking of a section of the city In which t are located some of the most magnificent homes and beautiful grounds in the whole territory. The variation of rainfall, together with the difference in temperature due to elevation, give to Hawaii a diversity of climate that can scarcely be equaled in the world, lacking only in extremes of either heat or cold. Will J. Cooper.,

Paris, Dec. 12. "President Castro is changing his trousers and is unable to see you." This was the stereotyped answer Castro's secretary gave to newspaper men who besieged the

hotel where Castro is stopping and pleaded for interviews, but so busy was the Venezuelan executive in jump

ing from one pair of trousers to an

other that no one was accommodated. Castro is religiously keeping the in

junction placed upon himself by the French government to remain silent

while in France.

President Castro arrived here last night from Bordeaux, and has so far

made no official advances to the French government. He is represented as furiously angry at the manner in

which the government Is receiving him

in France. Since his arrival in Paris he has remained shut up in his epartments in the hotel as closely as though he were a prisoner and barring a few members of the Venezuelan colony, he has seen nobody.

MADE A BIG HIT.

A Speech That Haitian, the Oarsman, Delivered In England. Edward Hanlan, once champion oarsman of the world, related a good story of how be delivered a speech after winning his second race in England. Ills first victory bad found him unprepared. He was ready for his second with a speech composed for him by a newspaper friend neatly copied out on paper and stored away for use in his coat pocket.

When the crowd outside the clubhouse Insisted upon seeing and hearing the winner be was helped out upon a window ledge by his friends and held there by the coattails and the legs. The crowd cheered him wildly. He was too confused to speak. They cheered him again. He threw out his band In a gesture of helplessness and moved his lips In some inaudible mumble of apology for bis Inability to deliver a speech. They could not hear on account of the noise that they were themselves making, but they encouraged him with generous applause. He saw his escape and proceeded to shake his bead and work his lips In a fine frenzy of oratory, gesticulating eloquently and smiling bis thanks. The noisy and good natured crowd cheered him to the echo, and his friends drew him in from his precarious position oa the window ledge. "You carried that crowd along In style," they congratulated him. -"What did you say? We couldn't hear you. "Xes- Give na an idea of your speech," the reporters put In, drawing out their notebooks. Hanlan took the manuscript from his pocket. "Here's the whole thing," he said. "Do you want it all?" 'Well, rather," they answered. "That speech made a hit."

The man who uses a falsehood for policy, like the woman who powders, soon gets into the habit of putting oa , go much. Path tinder.' ex . I, - -- Ut Drinks and Thint. Jn Jjta a mistake to suppose that cold there' are necsary to relieve thirst. flghtlripUl drinks, as a rule, Increase can mrtsb- condition of the mouth the po"niacb and so create thirst. Exbeejsoce shows it to be a fact that hot ks relieve thirst and "cool off the j when It is in an abnormally beatge Condition- better than Ice cold untj & 1 , havurry up, Tommy!" called mother the. downstairs. "We're late now. And ) you got your shoes on? y msmn--ali but one."

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A Wltaaa' Retort. Curran once so far forgot himself as to tell a witness whose evidence be wished to discredit that there was scoundrellsm reflected in his face. "I was never before aware that my face made such a good mirror," retorted the other. The answer was all the more pointed from the fact that Curran. despite his unrivaled forensic qualities, had a somewhat evil visage.

Saaltary luatlnet. Modem Mother Why, child alive, what are you taking off that dolly's clothes for? Modern Child I'm goIn' to eamine ber to see if shes been vaccinated. I can't have 'er spreadin' 'tagion among my other dollies. Baltimore American.

A RaaaalIe Hypothesis. Johnny Pa? Father Well? JohnnyDo you laugh Jn your sleeve "cause that's where your funny bone is? Town and Country.

Every year the world puts on its food $4,000,000 worth of pepper.

What Koraa Was. Few are aware that Korea preceded Europe in inventing three things which have had a vast influence upon the world. Printing with movable types originated in Korea in 1324, 120 years before the Invention of the art in Europe. The two other inventions in which the Koreans seem to have anticipated Europe were the mortar and the ironclad, both used with considerable effect during the JapaneseKorean war of 1592-8. Japan Chronicle. In a Hurry. A Chinese woman was fanning the corpse of her husband, and,, being asked by the neighbors why she' fanned a dead man in the middle of winter, she replied. "My husband's last words were, 'Wife, wait till I am cold before you marry again.'" Scrap Book

The Gold In the Orcaa. The fact that sea water contained gold was first made patent, we believe, by the observation that the deposit on the copper plating of Jetty piles in sea harbors was comparatively rich in the precious metal. On the estimate that a ton of sea water .contains approximately one grain, the yield would amount to something like 200 tons of gold per cubic mile and, as the volume of the world's ocean is estimated at 400,000,000 cubic miles, the total possible yield of gold would be no less than 100,000,000,000 tons-a truly attractive propect to the company promoter. London Lancet.

Avnabil: Use Gold Medal Flour for your pastry. Orralpinh.

- Lorente. the learned and talented historiographer of the inquisition, was glad during the close of his brilliant but unfortunate career to hire himself out for a few sous a night to keep watch over the dead bodies at the Paris morgue and died eventually of starvation.

A Cruel Threat. Mr. Snips (who Iibb called about that long standing account) So you won't pay today, eh? Well, now, I wain you If you don't settle with me by this day week I'll go round to all your other creditors and tell them that you've paid me in full, and then you'll have 'm all down on you. See what I mean?

Mrs. Gallamer Isn't Mr. Grabbens a ladles' tailor? Mrs. Flummeraro Not exclusively. Mrs. Ruudam Is one of his customers. Brooklyn Life.

DEADLY POISONS.

One Whiff of Pure Prussic Acid Is Sufficient to Kill. The discoverer of prussic acid was instantly killed by inhaling one whiff of his own handiwork.

Pure prussic acid is never sold or:

handled. The smell of it is always fatal. It kills not in three minutes or half an hour, but the instant it enters the lungs as a gas. The mixture ordinarily sold a prussic acid la D3 parta water to two parta of the drug. Even in this form it is very deadly. A 20 per cent mixture of the acid would kill nearly as quickly as if pure. Atropine, though it has no harmful odor, is so deadly that aa much of It as would adhere to the.end of a moistened forefinger would Instantly cause death. Cyanide of potassium baa a pleasant smell which Is not injurious, but a small quantity swallowed kills, at once. Pure ammonia if inhaled would cause death almost aa quickly as prussic acid. When a carboy of nitric acid la broken some one has to suffer. It will burn wood, eat through Iron plates and destroy whatever it touches. Such an accident once happened in an acid factory. Every one ran awav. leavln

cue aclu u amuse ltselt by setting fire to things. Soon it was uvea that the building would be destroyed am! hundreds of people thrown out of work, and four men volunteer to put ' out the Are in the acid room. They succeeded and came out all right. Five hours later all were dead.

His Gallantry. "See that man who Just save hl seat to a young woman?" queried an elevated railroad passenger. "Queer case that. Never encountered one before Just like it. "He's not a New Yorker, he is not a ready maker of friends, and be 1 dt!Bdent where women are concerned that he really bas not one among his acquaintances, with the possible ception of a landlady and a laundress. "Yet the fellow has a longing for feminine recognition. I happen to know that he always relinquishes hi seat to a woman where the opportunity is presented, and I also know that fats only reason for doing so is the hope of receiving a smFle and a Thank you' In return. It's like a bone to a hungry dog. Queer case, don't you think?" New York Globe.

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