The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-09-17
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grains.
Norwegian girls, who have been doing
kitchen work in Iowa at $3.50 week,
are hiring out to work in the harvest
fields at from 81 to So per day
1t is stated that the presence of lady
students in the Missouri State University
has always been an advantage, means
of refinement, promoter of good con
duct.
1t will only cost ss,lls,sss to run the
city of Chicago this year; s575, ooc is for
interest on the bonded debt, and S3Ss, los
for interest on sewerage bonds. Happy
Chicago.
The asbestos of New York and Yer
mont yields fibrcs up to 40 inches in
length. Handkerchief OF this material
might be washed" in the fire instead of
by the laundress.
A Portland, Me-, fruit dealer received
bite the other day from a young taran,
tula that had been brought from Cuba on
a bunch of bananas, The wound was
very painful. but not fatal
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Con-
vention has rejected, by a vote of 81 to
10, provision requiring the judges of all
the Courts to be appointed BY the Cover
nor and confirmed by two-thirds vote
of the Senate.
And now scientists claim that the moon,
instead of being so "cold and chaste and
pallid," is in reality red hot--so much so
that no living thing known to our world
can live on there THIS also knocks the
green cheese theory.
All of the three hundred and seventy.
three convicts in the Nashville Peniten-
tiary have been more or less affected with
cholera. 1t has been severer with cabinet
makers and carpenters than with those
working in other trades.
Iron has been discovered on Little
River, Manistee county, Michigan, and a
company has purchased 1000 acres of
government land there. The ore is said
to be foot thick, and to yield from forty
to fifty per cent. of iron. stt
A religions journal in Boston has de-
cided that General Butler is aiming to
succeed Senator Sumner in 1875, and ex-
presses doubt whether Massachusetts
will be benefited in case he is successful
Since Massachusetts has censnred Senator
Sumner. it would seem that Butler might
be more to its liking.
The chief trouble in the schools of
Connecticut appears to be what it is in
good many other places lack of compe.
tent teachers. Bv-ani-by it will probably
enter the heads of this generation chat the
way to get such teachers is to choose PEG.
pie with that special gift of instruction,
and educate them for the work.
sUnter den Lindenn-Th Washington
Board of Public Works intend planting
with four rows of American linden the
entire length of Massachusetts avenue.
The late Senator Dixon, of Connecticut,
left over million dollars, divided equally
between four children, two sons and two
daughters, except 200 shares of Enfield
bridge stock, given to his sister.
If the lady who entered St. Louis
saloon, and got drunk to unconsciousness,
had not belonged to zone of the oldest
and most respectable families in the city,"
she would have been fined like anybody
else.
There are lots of good in human nature.
The other day, the Detroit Post contained
a little item to the effect that two orphans
girls were at the station-house, homeless
and penniess, and before noon thirteen
different persons had called and offered to
adopt them.
A test suit has been brought in the
United States Circuit Court, in Minnesota,
to see if the statute of the State regulating
the rates OF transportation on railroads
is constitutional A decision is hoped
for at the present term.
The woman-women of Pennsylvania are
much elated over the fact that the Con-
stitutional Conventional that State adopt
ed an article declaring that women who
have reached the age of twenty-one years
:" shall be eligible to any Office of control
or management under the School laws of
the State.''
A Western journal truly says that prac-
tically the common-school teachers in the
United States are now women between
the ages of seventeen and twenty-five. In
the country schools they are virtually the
sole occupants of the field In all the
Western cities they are gradually taking |
the place of men.
When Miss Faithful delivered her lee
ture in Cincinnati gentleman in the au-
dience was about to speak to fashionable
girl by his side in praise of the plainness
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