The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-03-12
News of the Week,

texas mas Sent an agent 10 Europe lOE
Kentucky has two asylums full of lunatics, an
wants another to fill.
Nearly all the officers of Victor Emmanuers sta
have American wives.
The Emperor of Germany has been invited to vis
st. Petersburg in May.
There are 600 cattle in the United States. Texa
alone has over 100000.
A German resident of Houston, Texas, is wort
$4,000 and drives cart.
The Duke of Hamilton's stud of racers in Pari
has been sold for slO,5Oo.
The first piano ever made in the United State
was made at Philadelphia.
The Khedive of Egypt hvs not been borrowing tn
large sums of money reported.
Florida planters contract with their laborers t,
/ give them one-third of the crops.
Massachusetts now has 165s miles of railroad
an increase of SO miles during 1872.
Monroe, a small Wisconsin village, has thirtysi'
men over six feet two inches high.
The new American club in Paris has 100 name.
and more applications than can be entertained.
Philadelphia started Washington monument 81
years ago, aud has got s1o.s4 towards it.
An Arkansas trapper returns from three months
sojourn in the swamps with $500 worth of fur.
Threefonrths of the writing paper made in the
United States comes from Holyoke Massachusetts.
small squirrel at franklin, Pa, was lately sur.
prised with eight bushels OF shelled corn in his
session.
In Chicago the total number of real estate trans.
fers in one week was III, the total consideration
$685., s45
Since Virginia raises better than Sicily, it
is thought to be about time to stop importing from
the latter place.
The news of the intended marriage of Princess
Thyra, of Denmark, with the Prince Royal of Hano-
yer, is officially denied.
The London Metropolitan Board controls an area
of III square miles, AIS 642 inhabited houses
householders, and population of 1885, S7 souls.
withdraw to the Vatican Immediately after the pass
ing of the bill upon the religious corporations.
The West Point cadets will put on their best bibs
and fuckers, chalk their shirt bosoms, and partic
pate in the inaugural ceremonies at Washington.
The spiritualists are going to hold mass meeting
~ DebAiS OiNSh NAiSuiSdus bOOl, lTl 10 uldhe
few raps that will be heard all over the country
A late Russian invention enables station masters
to ascertain, by telegraphic apparatus, the condi-
ton of all sleepers on their section of railway line
The Prussians have relaxed their criminal code,
aud a result 1879 criminals have been pardoned
They had only completed fraction of their term of
sentence.
Since the year 1866 Messrs Card & Co., shipbuild-
ers. Grcenock, have completed 40 steamers, of the
aggregate tonnage of 10000 tons, costing upward
of S15,OOO,OOO
ALondon whisky seller lately refused to sell man
a drink, and the man went off and cut his throat
The saloon keeper is now under arrest as response
bic for the death.
Near Muscatine, Iowa, January 18th, sleigh flied
with ladies and gentlemen, ran off tine side of a
bridge, and the party were precptated fifteen feet
to the ice below
The Canton Lucerne possesses no less than IS vol
unteer shooting societies, with $50 members The
Canton Argau has at present 10 cadet corps num-
bering ,40l members.
Photographs of the Chaldean tablets which are be-
eved to contain account of the deluge, are being
prepared and copies will be published, accompanied
by translation of the text.
The Russian official gazette announces that di.
ploma of honor has been conferred upon Baron Lie
big for the application of his knowledge of heoret-
ical chemistry to practical purposes.
A wealthy and prominent member of the Carlton
Club, London, was lately expelled for striking one
of the servants and subsequently kicking him into
Pail Mall. Democracy is on the rise
The reporters of the Pttsburg papers were treated
with free sleigh ride on Christmas day. and re-
spOuded by pus of the livery stables varying from
a "stick-full" to a column in length.
A German paper says that experiments have been
made at Bruuu with new manageable aerial ship,
before the military and civil authorities The results
are reported to have been entirely successful
The total cost of the Boston water works up to
May l, 1872, $1,000, $50 a. The number of wa
is So, Ill, and the estimated income from
The sales of water during the ensuing year is 100000
Application will be made to the Nova Scotia Par
aments to incorporate the Acadia Steamship Com.
pany so that their boats can run between ports in
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the United States.
1t is said that the young Marquis Aniardo, nephew
Of the late Count de Cavour and son of Count Gus.
lave de Cavour, the only remaining male branch of
he family is seriously attacked with slow consump-
lion.
Aspecial dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Lon.
Ion Observer, says Count schonvaloT has been sent
lbroad TO negotiate marriage between Prince,
whose name is not given, and daughter of the
Gar.
The GreiOt comic paper, shows NJ Theirs in a
position tendue, maneuverng with the greatest sang
roid and jolity on :ightrope, and assisting him.
'elfwith balancing pole weighted at the ends with
Right" and LEFT"
Notwithstanding the loss of her two provinces of
Alsace and Lorraine. France has still population
If over SS,OOO,OOO people-a diminution of only
81, 900 since the last census. Her population is
quail to that of all the United States although her
erritory is only the area of the State of Texas.
The relations between the Porte and the depend.
ncy of Lahsa have become threatening The active
roubles which it is feared may grow out of the diff
ulty creates excitement among British Indian in
erests on account of.the trade relations between
he inhabitants of Lahsa and the British port of
Aden, an important point on the overland route to
udia.
Kansas man dropped little note to a neigh
Ors wife, inviting her to meet him under the pale
liver moon. The husband got the note first, and
ept the appointment Two doctors have been at