The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-09-16


MARVIN T. HEAD Is said to be one Of the
meanest men in Chicago. His enemies inYa-
riably write his name "M. I. Head"
JOHN RoInARDs, of Durham, Maine. died
recently at the advanced age Of 100 years, Q
months and 5 days. He was one Of the
earliest settlers in that part Of the State.
THE Yale Colrant proposes that the stu
dents who graduated under the late President
Day, should contribute one dollar each to
erect suitable monument to him on the
College grounds.
E. PERRY, Of Montreal, was left with few
provisions, last fall, to take care of light
house on one Of the islands of Lake Supe-
| rior. The setting In of winter prevented q
visit to him afterwards, and he starved to
death.
THE equipage of Col. 7. B. Lawrence,
Cansnl-General Of the United States for the
Kingdom Of Italy, at the recent Corso di
Gala held in Florence, surpassed in elegance
and good taste any of the turn-outs Of the
nobility.
A FULL-LENGTH engraved portrait of Queen
Elizabeth, In state dress, by William Rogers,
a contemporary artist, no other impression
| Of which is known to exist, has been discov-
cred in England.
A RETURNED CALIFORNIAN found the baby
he had left at home miss of five summers.
One day he offended her, when she irefully
exclaimed: wish you had never married
into the familyp'
TIE Supreme Government of Peru has or
dered that from next autumn the consignees
OF guano increase by ten shillings the price
OF each effective ton of guano that they sell
In their respective deposits.
TROUBLES NEVER COME SIsaLY.-An hon
est old lady in the country, when told Of her
husbands death, exclaimed" Well, do de-
clare, our troubles never come alonei II
amt week since lost my best hen, and
now Mr. H-has gone, too, poor mani
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Alfred Memorial
Fund have swelled the amount already receiv-
ed to nearly f20, ,000, and it is intended at once
to commence the erection of the hospital.
Another circumstance in connection with
the Princes visit has been the enrolment
Of Scotch brigade of volunteers, to be call
ed "The Duke of Edinburgh's Own"
The London correspondent of the New
York Tribune says a serious accident befell
Swinburne, the poet, on July 10th, in the
reading room of the British Museum. The
poet was busy at one of the desks when he
wes seized with eonvulsion, was thrown
by it to the floor, and striking his head
against an iron staple, received blow that
nearly fractured the skull The violence Of
the fit was so great that even after the blow
he had to be held down on the floor for some
minutes.
THE Bishop of Argyle tells several stories
about the churches In the western Highlands
of Scotland He was lately compelled to
remove from one of the churches in his
diocese, one of the Illuminated texts:-
" Drink, aud let the camels drink also." 1t
was originally intended to be precept TO
inculcate kindness to animals; but the
people, who had very slight knowledge Of
English, interpreted 1t to bea permission at
least to indulge in liquor, and allow their
old enemies on the other side of the hills,
the Campbells, to refresh themselves in the
same way.
BLAcKwooD, the Scotch publisher, brings
out volume OF songs by Lord Neavs, an
eminent judge of the northern Kingdom,
zeal against the new i6eorfgs hiSrladfR'als
scientific world. Mr.. Darwin's theory Of
the origin of species by natural selection Is
made thus TO explain ITSELF
deer with the neck that was longer by half
Than the rest Of its familys (try not to lauSh)
By stretching and stretching became giraffe,
Which nobody can deny.
very tall pig with a very long nose,
Sends forth proboscis quite down to his toes.
And he then by the name Of an elephant goes,
Which nobody can deny,
An ape with pliable thumb and big brain,
When the gift Of the CAB he had managed to gain,
As a lord Of Creation established his reign,
Which nobody deny.
IcEBERGs IN THE ATLANTIc.-The New
York Sun says:
Vessels arriving at this port during the
past few days all report an unusual number
of iceburgs in the Atlantic Ocean. The
steamer Atlanta encountered twenty-five In q
single day, and had her voyage considerably
heightened by the slow rate of speed she
was compelled TO adopt to avoid dangerous
collisions. II has been suggested that the
coldness of the temperature produced In the
atmosphere of the ocean by these Arctic
visitors is the cause Of the excessive rims
we have been having during the past few
weeks; and there is something plausible In
the idea. The cold blasts from the sea,
meeting the warm, damp air which floats
over the land, must of course eondense It,
and cause IL TO deposit It's moisture. But
why there should be so much ice this season
is a subject for still further inquiry. The
ship Adolphine, at New York, from Bremen,
reports passing, on the 9Th of June, immense
fields of ice, some of them being at least two
hundred feet high. She had to go many
miles out of her course to avoid them.
On MAY 1st, Mr.. William Murry Drum
mond. Police Magistrate of Daylesford Vic
toria, died from the effects of bite BY
tiger snake. He allowed himself 70 be bitten
by the reptile in order to test the efficiency
OF an antidote which o man named Shires
to have discovered. Shires has
been committed for manslaughter.
The return of the Registrar r-Geueral Of Vic
toria, recently published, shows that in the
first quarter of 1868 there were 3,227 males
and g. 1877 females born in the colony; and
that 5, ,g73 males and 2, 435 females arrived In
it by sea. OF the males, COL and Of the fe-
males, 1,179 died; and 5,527 males and l, ,782
females left the colony by water. The total
increase of population for the quarter was
], ,683 and the estimated population Of the
colony on the 31st of March was 664, so per-
sons.
From January 1st to May 10th, the value
Of imports amounted to "A, 403, SO against
"a, 795 ,578 during the same period last year
The exports during the same periods-lS67,
"a, ,631 ,S5S; 1868 Is, ,s72, ,S34-
THE Constitasyente has the following curl
Gus paragraph relative to the Gillian colony
Of Magellanes:
"Persons supposed to be well informed
assure us that the government, so solicitous
Of immigration, aud jealous for the colonial
ton of the territories of Arauco and Ma
nellau's Is on the point Of concluding, or
has already concluded with the government Of
II. VI. the King of Italy, an agreement that
the King Of Italy will furnish as many emil
grants as many be desired for the Straits
colony, and win pay half the cost Of their
passage, the Gillian Government prOviding
the rest. Up to this point the agreement Is
excellent since we shall obtain an immigra-
ton sufficiently cheap; but the second part
Is not quite so satisfactory-the class Of
subjects of which King Victor Emanuel
wishes to rid himself II Is well known
that on the Italian frontiers the royal army
or at least portion-has been occupied
for sometime back In combating the brigHn-
dage fomented from the Farnese Palace By
the ex-King OF Naples, in agreement, 1t is
said. with the Holy Father, who employs In
that object a good portion Of the money
called st. Peters pence. Well, the Italian
army frenuentlV makes numerous prisoners