The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1874-02-04

n Imports of foreign merchandise for 1878,
amounted to sl.437,611.37
Exports Of produce and merchandise amounted
TO S2,12s,054.66, gain as compared with 1877
of S690,442. or about 43 per cent.
The number Of merchant steamers and sailing
vessels from foreign ports has been los, with q
tonnage of 62,767.
The number of whalers that have visited the
Islands during 1873 has been g.
The shipments Of oil and bone amount to $780,.
1854 gallons of sperm and whale, and l22, 544
pounds Of bone.
Twenty-one thousand. two hundred and twelve
gallons of spirits have been imported, showing an
increase Of 2,369 gallons.
OF the total impOrtations more than one half
comes from the United States.
The receipts from Customs have been $685.
655.76, being q decrease of S19.7l9.67 from
those of the previous year.
The free importations amount to 89.326. 50
Seven hundred and thirty-three passengers
have arrived, and 775 have left during the year.
There are ffty-eight vessels registered under
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THE biographical sketch of Prof. LOUIS AeAs
s1z, on our fourth page, illustrated with a most
excellent portrait Of him, will attract general al
tention. 1t was our good fortune to meet the dis.
tiuguished naturalist in Cambridge, in 1871, and
to visit bis museum, which occupies four stories Of
ID large building near Harvard Square, the two up
per stories OF which only were then arranged as
museums, the lower ones being filed with unpack.
cd specimens. Few men possessed the simple
child-Iike character of Professor Agassz,-a trait
which many distinguished savants are noted for.
In addition to the excellent biographical sketch Ia
ken from the Boston Globe we insert the follow
ling paragraph from DR.. Peabody's funeral adj
dress Those who knew him need not that
say how closely these disin:erested services TO
benefit, accorded with his whole spirit and char
acter as manifested in the intimscies of society
and in the sacred relations OF friendship and KIN
:dred. No man can have been more thoroughly I'M
Selfish nor can have had or deserved warmer
friends. Genial in all his intercourse, impulsiye
indeed, but with impulses always on the generous
side, with conversational powers that sustained
Iunhagged interest in his hearers, with wonderful
versatility of adaptation, 10 the best sense capable
Iof becoming all things to all men, he left wherev-
Ter he went, grateful memories, and won the affec
tionate regard not only of those on his own social
plane, but of all with whom be came into rela
lions, however transient Hosts and peasant d
among the Alps, years and years after his sojourn
lon the banks Of the Arr, talked lovingly Of him.
and delighted to point out to tourists the noun
tain that bears his name. Fishermen at Nahant
and Cape Cod, who had but once seen him, never
forgot him when hook or net brought up aughtl
that was rare or strange. Sailors treasured up|
for him shells and fossils from the Indies and the
3 outhern seas. His broad sympathies his hearty
good fellowship won for him troops Of tributaries
and many there were, of all conditions and grades
of ulture, who would not willingly return from
the Pacific coast or a whaling station or an Asia
tic port without something for Agassiz."