The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-05-14


Texas is filing its penitentiary at the average
rate of three and quarter convicts per diem,
exclusive of Sundays.
Out Of 2,l42 immigrants who arrived at Ham,
ilton, Ontario, during the past two months, only
67l remained in Canada.
Only 1855 feet Of the Hoosac tunnel remain
to dig, winch, at the present rate Of progress,
viii last until January, 1874.
AT the game of bnccarat, in the Washington
Club of Paris, a foreigner lately lost 100000
francs, Just for the fun of it,"
twenty-five theological students are learning
Spanish. to ft them for q Protestant missionary
enterprise among the Mexicans.
Hamburg mas four American boarding schools
The boys appear to have good time, and regu-
larly attend the theatre and beer gardens.
Boston has been able to take care OF her needy
citizens without aid from others. The donations
from Detroit and Mllwaukee have been returned
Rhode Island is the only New England State
where farms are increasing in value, and this is
owing to the growth and prosperity of her manu-
featuring villages.
Frenchman has invented new lfe-preserv-
ing apparatus to be used on vessels, which con-
sists of cork hammocks so arranged that a dozen
or more of them can be attached together and
form q raft
A Havana dispatch says the Captain General
has ordered that reporter Of an American news
paper, now IN the camp of the insurgents, be
sent out of the country if he returns to the
Spanish lines
A lot of Australian gold about 700 pounds, re.
Gently coined at the French mint has proved SO
brittle as to be unfit for use 1t had to be melted
over again. The theory is that antimony or ar
senic was present with the metal
President Grant has pocketed about fifteen
bills, mostly private claims. involving consider
able amount Of money. The persons interested
in them going about abusing the President
and bewailing their i'll luck.
Paris is nearly as badly off as London as far as
the price of coal is concerned. Parisiaus are
paying at the rate of forty-fo shilIings n ton,
and the progress of the strike of the colliers in
Wales is watched with great interest.
Mr.. H. H. BigeIOw, of Worcester, Mass, is
going to put in operation at the Vienna Exhibi-
tion model Yankee shoe factory, doing all the
steps Of the work by machinery, and turning out
a finished shoe in seven minutes.
A man giving his name as ]. H. Walters was
arrested and lodged in Anderson (Ind.) Jail, re-
Gently, charged with robbing and burning the
Bee Line Railroad depot, at that place. Seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of tick
cts of that line we're found in his trunk
A San Francisco paper tells Of gentleman
who gave bis Chinese servant five hours leave of.
absence the other day, and was somewhat unused |
by seeing him walk out of the gate with twelve
pound clock under his arm, which be took with
him TO keep the run nf the time and be back in
season.
The President informed several members who
called on him that had Congress passed the
salary bill, without providing an increase Of saa-
ries to other officers of government besides him
self, he would have felt it his duty to veto the
bill
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that Spain has
now an opportunity of paying graceful compli-
meut to the institutions of England, and of show
ing her willingness to fall in with the spirit of
the age" by throwing her throne open to public
competition.
The socialist democratic leaders of Germany
have designed the plan of their agitating cam
n Tt <.
the agitation energetically over oil Germany, ard
the credited emissaries have been encouraged to
vigorous action.
The Bank Of Venice lived over 600, and the
Bank of St. George, OF Genoa, about 400 years.
Both we're virtually botted out of existence by
the armies Of the elder Napoleon. The Bank of
North America still exists and so does the
Bank of England, after remarkable life of lis
years.
AdEices from Amsterdam state that the CON-
mission appointed on the currency question was
about to make its report, which will recommend
that no action be taken until after the German
arrangements shall have been publicly made
known, and that, il Germany resolves to adopt
uOuVto ctauuniA kSOtd enu oANSt " AOitouu 5uOuiu
do the same.
A trial of viii case in California has devel-
oped the following mudde : The father separated
from his wife several years ago and went 10 Kan
sas The wife followed her husband and settled
near him. The son of this couple parted from
his wife, who married again, her husband being
her step-mothers brother Her husband died
however, and she was subsequently married to
her first husbands father. As the matter stands
now, the old gentleman is step-father to bis
grandson; the sons former wife is bis step
mother, and his own son is his step-brother, and
bis fathers wife is his daughter-in-law.
HoNE CouRrEsTEs.-A retired gOverness says:
q 1 am one of those whose lot of life it has
been to 20 out into an unfrieudless world at