The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1874-05-06
News Paragraph.

A GREAT FA1LURE-The Vienna Exposition
cost the Austrian Government six million dol
lars more than it yielded from yisiters. The sale
of the building may reduce this amount BY q
million and half or two millions.
The habit OF opium-eaiing is increasing in the
United States. From three to FIVE years indul-
gence wrecks the finest constitution, the eyes are
sunken, the frame is emaciated, and death ends the
wasted life.
California has about 100000 head Of sheep.
The wool crop in two shearings, at an average Of
ten pounds per head, would amount to SsOyOOO,-
900 pounds, or l5,9OO!OOO more than the total
product Of the United States iu l67l.-
The Rev. E. L. Hale says A man may
send from Lands End, in England. to Kirkwall,
in Scotland, the longest distance in Great Britain,
from wilderness to the edge of the icebergs,
over distance of 200 miles, telegraphic mes
sage at one cent a word"
As evidence OF the Importance of the produce
interest the following figures give the aggregate
sales in New York city last year: Butter, $780,
100000; cheese, sl5,OOOOOO; wheat, S24.OOO.-
600 -four, S26OOO,0OO petroleum, $40, 900 900; /;
cut meats, sI2yOOO.OOO.
The foreign trade Of Great Britain had not
been satisfactory to her merchants last year.
That nation sold S32 100000 less Of cotton
linen, silk and wooden fabrics, and had TO buy
S5OOOOOOO more OF articles of food in the first
nine months of the year than iu the corresponding
period Of the previous year.
he axb;k;. or, ,bo l.. r AZ.
States with foreign countries for the year ending
June 80, 1873, shows baIauce Of trade against
the country of sl4,4s45s4, the imports being
based upon specie values, aud the exports based
upon mixed values The foreign exports during
Che same period amounted TO S2sl4O,5lI.
Miss Kate Field has been writing some of her
lively letters to the New York Tribune-this time
from Spain. Madrid" size says goes to bed
at A NJ, breakfasts at P NJ, takes sieSta, be-
fore going to the bul6ght at 4 drives afterwards,
dimes at Z, and later begins business. There are
those abject enough to retire at night aud rise in
the morning. They are shopkeepers and Secre-
taries of Legation possessed Of conscience. Con-
science emulates the ark-it rises early"
IL is stated that, by careful analysis, it has
been found that apples contain larger amount
Of phosphorus, or brain.food than any other fruit
or vegetable, aud on this account they are very
important to sedentary men, who work their
brains rather than their muscles. They also con-
tain the acids which are needed especially for
sedentary men, the action Of whose lives is slug
gish to eliminate eifete matters which, il retained
in the system, produce iDactiou of the brain, and
indeed, Of the whole system, causing jauGdice,
sleepiness, scurFy, and troublesome diseases Of
the skin. a- ~
The following "yarn" is published in q Vic
torian paper -" 1t is believed by those who
have resided at Echuoa during the height of sum
mer that there is no place in the world like it for
heas and az amusing story is told about them.
Some time back railway official applied to be
removed from the district, on the ground that
the heas were unbearable, and their attacks
would be injurious 70 his health. His request
was deemed absurd, but, determined to prove
that be had told the truth, be one night got up,
lighted his lamp, went hea-hunting, and in the
course Of an hour or two bad filed an ordinary
sized matchbox with these bosom companions
aud baekbiters. Next morning be sent his game
down TO the department, and the powers that
be- we're so amused with his originality that they
granted his request" .LLA1 0l
IMPERIAL SMARrEs.-The kingly people Of
Europe, now in the busines, are better paid than
the public tunctionaries OF the United States, 70
the reason, prObably. that, in the majority Of
cases, the former have the fixing of the amount
themselves Thus, the Emperor Of Russia re-
ceiyes s,250,OOO thaIers the Soltan Of Turkey.
100000 thalers; the Emperor Of Germany, s.
100000 thalers the King Of IAly. 100000
thalers the Emperor of Austria, 5,5OO,0O0 tba-
lers the Queen Of England 2r5OO,OOO thalers.
In propofiion 10 the national Income Of these
countries the Queen of England receives the low
est on the civil list, namely, seven-tenths ofone
per cent the Sultan receiving the highest, eleven
per cent. In Frauce, Marshal MacMahou, beside \
biz annual military pay of $1,000, GETS ss Prssi-
dent Of the Rnpublic. $4,000 year. A French
General Of Division gets $1,000 a year, Briga-
dier, $780, 20 w - ~ - W ID -