The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1874-05-27
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE
Late Foreign News.

The grangers of Missouri are following
those of Iowa in establishing manufac-
tories for agricultural implements.
Last year the wool produced in the
United States amounted to 174,7OO,OOO
pounds, which was an increase of fourteen
million pounds over 1872.
Two thousand dollars is a pretty high
price to pay for a single rooster. That is
what Mr.. Davis, of Portland, has just
given to Ira Batchelder for a Black Span
ish cock-considered the best game bird
in the country.
A significant feature of the town cleo
tons Just held in Massachusetts has been
the choice of women to serve on school
committees. Many towns in the western
and central portions of the State have
taken this way to express their approval
of the question which has been so stub
bornly resisted in Boston.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, the litigious,
looks scarcely more than 40, though she
is nearly 20; and wears iauuty little
hat, with white or blue jessamine curl
ing round its crown, at evening parties,
and looks like a pretty picture, just step
ping from its frame in some choice gallery
of portraits.
"There can be little doubt" says the
Pail Nal Gazette, "that by far the great
er part of the mischief done in the world
is done by silly people, and that Stiffness
is, as a rule, quite as, if not more, dan
gerous to the community than wicked
ness, inasmuch as the unreasoning enjoy
an immunity from punishment for their
offences, which is not extended to the I'M
principled."
Charcoal is valuable internal palliative
in dyspepsia, and in many OF the disorders
affecting the stomach and bowels. TAX
en- in doses of a tablespoonful night and
morning. 1t is an almost unfailing correc-
tive of costive habit. Mixed with soften
ing poultices, 1t is cleansing, soothing, and
healing to foul sores. An occasional dose
of the powder produces a favorable i'm
provement in sallow or tawny com
plexions.
The ballot system, Just employed for
the first time in England at a general
election, has given much satisfaction not,
perhaps, to politicians as class, certainly
not to defeated candidates, but to large
numbers of persons who are glad to find
elections taking place quietly and without
the least interruption to business.
A San Francisco papers tell of rose
bush at Santa Rosa of the La Marque
variety, which was planted in 1858, and
presents now an immense bouquet of
white roses, twenty-five feet high, twenty
two feet across, beautifully rounded, with
a blossoming surface of four hundred
square feet, with four thousand full-blown
roses and twenty thousand buds.
The French town of Issoudun boasts of
the most wonderful ltsus nature of the
age. 1t is a young girl, fourteen years
old, whose body, from the waist down
ward, is double, and presents two parts
acting independently of each other The
two legs she uses for walking belong each |
to a different trunk, whilst third one is
quite insensible to pain. She enjoys good .
health.
The decision of the City Solicitor of /
Boston that the women recently elected .
of the School Committee cannot
serve, is not favorably received in that
city The Boston journal says the con-
stitution says nothing upon the subject,
and shows that the general statutes fully
the women in taking the posi-
lions. 1t says the movement giving the
women the places was demanded by the
public welfare, and adds: "The women
elected to the School Board will take their
places and enter upon their official duties.
Then, if anybody wishes to raise the
question of the legality of their election,
le can do it; but we predict that he win
only meet the invariable fate of those who
nave undertaken to interpose mere obso-
etc custom to the irresistible demands of
Justice and the public utility"
Statistics presented to the French Acad-
my show that the marriages of blood
Citations form about two per cent. of all
he marriages in France, and that the
leaf and dumb offspring, at birth, of con-
marriages are, in proportion
o the deaf and dumb born in ordinary
vedlock-at Lyons full 25 per cent, at
east 25 per cent. in Paris and 80 per cent
n Bordeaux-the proportions of the deaf
nd dumb by birth increasing with the
Iegree of blood relationship. The data
btained show that if the danger of hay
no a deaf and dumb child in ordinary
marriage, represented by figures, is one,
here will be is in marriages between