The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-04-16
Foreign Miscellany.

first omnibus and traction engine froU
England.
The white population of Australia ii
May, 1886, was III; in April, 1871, il
was 729,654
The Khedive of Egypt is reported t
be the richest man in the world, his an
nual income being $5o,OOO,OOo. He is
also the most extensive farmer, and does
a large business as merchant, manufac
turer, banker, and ship builder.
Alligator leather having become val
liable article of commerce, the Mobile
Register suggests that Northern capital
lists interested in the hide and leather
trade go South and manufacture the arti-
Gle, where they can obtain an unfailing
supply of the raw material cheap
1t is estimated that during the last year
the New York city horse cars carried
125,oOo,ooo passengers, of whom forty
millions rode two miles or more, wasting
at least thirty minutes each trip, as COM
pared with what would be required if
they had rapid transit railway.
Secretary Robson has ordered the U.
S. storeship Supply, one of tie vessels
which will be used for conveying articles
intended for the Vienna Exposition, to
Charlestown Navy Yard, in order to ac-
commodate the residents of New England
who intend to contribute articles to the
Exposition. The Supply is capable of
carrying about 600 tons dead weight,
and will be in readiness early in the pres
ent month.
Mr.. William L. Stone, of New York,
writes TO the Providence Journal in de-
tense of the substantial reality of Mother
Goose. He declares that she is no myth,
but a mortal verify that fourished in
Boston (where else y in the last century.
Her daughter, Elizabeth Goose, was mar
ried by Cotton Mather to Mr.. Fleet, ed
itor of the Boston Weekly Rehearsal, and
when the good woman, who was herself
the mother of nineteen children, saw her
numerous grandchildren grow up about
her, she broke out into such flood of
rhymes and songs to please the little ones
withal, that her son-in-law collected and
printed them with the title, "Songs for
the Nursery; or, Mother Goose's Melo-
dies for Children"
With the exception of the Secretary of
the Treasury, there is no probability of
change in the Cabinet, and
this will depend on the election of Mr..
Boutwell, to the Senate. In such an event,
there seems little if any doubt that Judge
will be Mr. Boutwell's sue
cessor, and the successor to Mr.. Richard
son has already been indicated The
President recently said, in replying to a
question concerning the reported Cabinet
changes, as to other gentlemen, that he
selected the members of it himself, and |
lid not leave that duty to be performed
BY the newspapers. Mr.. B. has since
been elected Senator.
In the Credit Mobilier investigation
before Mr.. Wilson, in Boston on Friday,
Mr.. Ham testified that the actual cost of
building the Union Pacific Railroad was
~ ,2cs, S99.lS, meaning the amount of
money expended in building and losses
N securities. On the Company's books
he cost appeared to be Sll4,OSS, 1852.
The profits were as follows: On the Ames
ontract, $7,so2, 1875; and on the Hoxie
ontract, S5,l6s.2S2 total profits to the
ontractors of the entire road, S42, s25, 1927
n stock and securities at their par value.
1t is estimated that the profits for the
lst ten years on the sewing machines
in the United States amount
D 100000, 900, and the estimated profits
| 1872, $2O,OOO,OOO. In 1872 at least
10000 machines were made, and allow
g that 100000 of them were exported,
lie several companies must have received 4
t least SIS, 100000 for the SOC, 1000,
8, 100000 covering the cost of manufac- q
lring and patent fees. 1t is well known :
lat the sewing machine patents are about
} expire, and there is formidable COM i
nation of interests at Washington to {
bby their extension through Congress. {
here are about twenty-five sewing ma
line companies in the United States, five
them manufacturing probably three |
urths of all the machines produced. The
,minal capital of these twenty-five COM
mics is about 500, 900, and in addi-
On to the profits on sales the leading
les divide "royalty" on the various
tents used by the tributary" compa- J
es, as they are called.
People who sit nervously in their count r.
2 houses or behind their goods, waiting D
: customers to take them by storm, and
aking no effort to let the world know
e bargains they have to offer, will find =
E seasons very unpropitious Many of \
Dse who have spent LARGE sums in hirino