The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-08-12
Miscellaneous Items.

Col. CoLr's EsrATK.-The distribution
Of the estate of the late Samuel Colt of
Hartford, Conn.,, commenced June 25. The
property will amount to between s3, ,00O, coo
and q, 900, 200. There are a dozen heirs to
be provided for, and Mrs. Colt and her son
are to have the remainder, which will be ,
snug little sum-
THE STRONGEST MAN.-Ambrose A. Butts,
of Auburn, Ohio, recently lifted dead weight
of 2,737% pounds, which Is the greatest lift-
ing feat on record. He has been practicing
at intervals during the last six years. DR..
the strongest man in the world, at last ac-
counts had lifted only 2,6oo pounds.
THE little State of Rhode Island has model
Legislature. That body adjourned after a
session of four days, during which no less
than SO acts and resolutions were passed.
Rhode Island lawmakers must be PAID by
the job, and not by the day, or else they are
chosen from that class of useful citizens who
do not go to theIegislature to make living
out of the business. Some other Legisla-
lures, as well as City Councils, might learn q
profitable lesson from the Rhode Islanders.
ARTEMUsIAN ADvERTIsINa.-Mr q. H.
Webb and Mark Twain have given fair speci-
mems of how circulars may be made come,
and advertisements converted into very
readable matter. But nothing in this line
yet equals Artemus's announcement of his
lectures, where he gave certificates of their
efficacy In the style of the patent medicine
notices. The one purporting TO be given by
President Lincoln was admirable. We quote
il from memory: "Dear Sir--I am free to
say that, for people who like your style of
lectures, they are just the style Of lectures
which such people like.
A STRANGE REsEMBLANcE--There was re-
Gently in the Southwest, a tragedy somewhat
similar to the murder of the Deering family
in PENNSYLVANIA, by which q family named
Deerfield was murdered The murderer of
the latter family has been convicted. His
name is Coovert, and there is a most remark
able resemblance between him and Probst.
Both are five feet seven or eight inches high,
have blue eyes, light hair and turned up noses.
Both have striding walk and stoop In the
shoulders, and both served in the army. The
strangest resemblance of all, however, is
that Coovert, like Probst, has lost the thumb
of his right hand, which was shot of while
he was in the army.
THE Burlingame Chinese Embassy visited
Photographic saloon in New York recently,
and near the doorway to the street, on their
exit, number OF ladies stood to scrutinize
them. One OF these, being near the rather
handsome form of Tung, and Forgetting good
manners in her desire to acquire knowledge,
deliberately took in her ungloved hand his
long and elaborately plated cue, black as
the lady for q moment; smile Illuminated
his broad fiat face as he glanced at her
own coiffure, and then bowling, said: GAN
minei all miner' The inqufsitiye female
retired in disgust
THE MILEAGE SYsTEM-The unequal sys-
tenn of Congressional Mileage, against which
the New York Tribune has for many years
waged warfare, is now being attacked by
that journal under the fresh impetus afforded
f.vf fha Orf nf tba or
sury, showing that the mileage paid to MEM
bers of the 3Sth Congress reached the sum
of 439, 162. The members from California
received nearly 1921 900 each. The highest
sum paid was to Wallace of Idaho-s12, ,3S4;
the lowest to Davis of Maryland-$64.
THE department of State has received a
dispatch from the United States Consul at
Zanzibar, dated Nov. LIST, 1865, in which he
communicates the failure of the East African
expedition, which was fitted out from that
place in the year 1866, for the purpose of ex-
ploring the northern rivers Of Africa. The
exploring party consisted of ten Europeans
and thirty natives. Five of the former and
eight natives are now all that are known to
be alive of the expedition, the object of
which was to ascend the Jubes River as far
as possible in steamers, then to travel over
land to the Nile and to follow that river to
its mouth. The hostility of the natives, and
hardships of the climate, were the causes Of
the disastrous result.
THE LANGUAGE OF THE EYEs.-It has often
been said that woman with q hazel eye
never elopes from her husband, never chats
scandal, never sacrifices her husbands COM
fort for her own, never finds fault, never
talks too much or too little, and is always an
entertaining, agreeable and lovely compan-
ion.
ave never knew" says a brother quill
driver, but one uninteresting and unami-
able woman with halle eve, and she had a
nose which looked, as the Yankee says, like
the little end Of nothing, whitfield down to
point"
The grey eye is the sign of shrewdness and
talent. Great thinkers and captains have II.
In woman 1t indicates a better head than
heart The dark hazle is noble in Significance
as In beauty. The blue eye is admirable, but
may be feeble. The black eye-take carei
Look out for the wife with black eyei
Such can be seen almost daily at the police
Office, generally with q complaint against the
husband for assault and battery.
ROMANTIC LOVE OF GEN. WALKER.-The
history Of General Walker, the Filibuster,
like that CT other men Of mark, Is not free
from the romance Of love as well as that Of
war. While law-student in New Orleans
he conceived a warm attachment for very
interesting young lady who was deaf and
dumb. She had been well educated, and
was of very engaging manners. Her misfor-
tune drew towards her the sympathies and
regards of al tender-hearted persons. With
his character site originality and peculiarity
of feeling and sentiment, Walker became
er.,noIrd Of this young lady. She recipro-
Gated his ngard, and for some time they
were never happy unless together. He soon
acquired knowledge of her signs, and they
conyersed with great facility-the medium Of
of their conversation no doubt adding zest
IN A laa nr11a II lt1<Isf fr..fa
interrupted their intercourse,
and before a reconciliation could be effected
the young lady died. This event gave a
tinge Of melancholy to the thoughts and
Of Walker. Perhaps, as many Of
his friends thought, II produced the great
change from the quiet, modest student, to
the bold, daring, dauntless reyolutionist and
warrior.
FEMALE REPoRTERs.-The recent anniver-
sary meetings In New York brought up some
things, and among the most
were three female reporters. The
Women's Rights Convention was attended
BY three ladies, the reportorial representa-
tives Of women's rights newspapers In diff
ferent parts Of the country. Two Of the
three were strongninded bioomers, ard the
other had discarded hoops and "sich,r and
iu meek retiring dress. The Sun
reporter gives the following spicy description
Of the force at work:
Miss Ada Fessenden Craig, Of Chicago,
was garbed in tight-ftting black silk pants,
green silk double breasted vest and gray pal
etot, which reached little lower than her
hips. When she got warm at her work she
opened her paletot-placing her right foot on
the left knee, and upon the elevated limb
was placed her paper, aud piled her celling
with the utmost nonehalance. The other
was dressed in orange-colored silk-silk
Knickerbocker panfs, loose vest, and flowing
tunic frightened round the waist The Knick-
pants are finished by elasties. the