The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-11-10
VOL. XI,--NO. 45.}
Lale News Irems.


Lake City.
In Nebraska than 1000, 900 forest trees were
planted last year.
Prof. Hayden corrects the statement that he owns
5000 head Of cattle in Colorado
Switzerland has voted for the introduction of civil
maTrisge-295.5ss against ISL ,O57.
Eight million baskets Of peaches expected from
Delaware aud Maryland, this season.
The Boston Ladies' Centennial Committee have up
to the present time collected $1,000.
Grace Greenwood says the expense of living and
travelling in England enormous and is continually
growing worse.
The St. Louis bridge which nearly 1000. 600,
reports that its gross earnings for the past yOar
$2s6,ooO and its expenses Sgs,OOO.
Jobu Paul says, ." A good many big guns attended
the meeting of The Army Of the Cumberland Utica
At least thought l recognized some big bores"
Miss Beckwith, daughter of the swimming master
Of Lambeth Baths London, accomplished the difficult
feat Of swimming from London Bridge to Greenwich,
distance Of Eve miles.
1 Mr.. Edwin Booth is steadily improving in health
but the shock which he received was very severe and
it doubtful if he safely fulfill his engagements
in New York.
Red Cloud won't put his neck under the interview
or's yoke. he says, =" 1 sm a big chief, and when
talk want it in open council and big crowd. No
use talking now for fun. don't sell dollar twice. y
Prof. Hayden says coal of the best quality was
found in large quantities in Southern and Western
Colorado during his three years' explorations there
the veins varying in thickness from twenty to fifty
feet.
Gail Hamilton says of present school system of
State boards and superintendents, 4" Give us good
teachers and small schools and let all this costly para
phernaA 60, tending to distraction, rather than
to education"
The Qneen of Holland address her guests, and
that with fuency. in every language spoken in Eu-
rope and OCCASION receiving the Hunga-
rian delegates of some learned society, among many
others who attended, Her Majesty addressed these
gentlemen in Latin, pleading that she
had not studied the Language Of Hungary.
SHORT PkssAGE,-The Inman Line steamship City
Of Berlin arrived Sandy Hook at $50 A. NJ Satur-
day, making the passage in days, is hours and
minutes actual time IRON Queenstown, being the
shortest passage made the Atlantic. either
way.
a not unlike that of Charley Ross, but with
an important difference, has occurred at Lyons,
France. little girl returning from school was en-
ticed by woman with some sweet liquor which made
her stupid The woman then put an old pettcoat
her shoulders down her hair and carried her
of. But the French police like those Of Phil
adelpha, aud the child restored to her pa
rents.
The Signal Service Bureau has accumulated data
which are very valuable to meteorological science,
and avoided many disasters the by the warn
ings Of approaching storms. Thousands of dollars
have been saved the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
by taking precautions when warned of the threatened
freshets from the head waters The value Of this ser
vice recognized by Congress in an increase of
$4,000 in the appropriation, over last year.
The Boston Post remarks: The trial of the mutt
of the Jefferson Borden now in progress before
Judges Clifford and Lowell, in the United States Cir
cult Court in this city, has peculiar interest as the
judicial record Of of those tragedies Of the sea
which even surpass the imagiDings Of romance. The
story of Capt. Patterson, told on the witness
stand tale of horrors whose terrible reality can
hardly be understood. To battle for days with band
Of desperate and determined men on the circum-
scribed deck of schooner on the open seas with no
chance Of retreat and hope Of assistance work
the vessel through storm and calm under shower Of
missiles hurled by the mutneers with dexterous aim
to watch night and LAY against surprise that would
mean sudden death and finally reduce the murder
to submission and, bring them irons justice,
is an experience given few and desired by none.
INTERSArIoSAu METEOROLOGICAL OBsERvArIoxs.-
The Signal service Bureau has nstissued the rst bull
letn Of International meteorological observations,
making another step in storm science In accordance
with the arrangements made at the Vienna Interna-
tiOnAl Meteorological Convention simultaneous obser-
vatons are to be taken twice month in different
parts Of the world The bulletin just Issued gives
the results Of observations thirteen stations in Aus
tria, in Belgium, eighty in the British possess
IONS six in Denmark thirty in the French possessions
twenty in Italy twenty-five in Russia, and $50 in the
United States. 1t inauguraes, for the first time in
history regular international exchange Of weather
reports. The object Of the exchange is to render
practicable the publication of q daily weather map,
embracing within its limits the entire Northern hem
isphere and permit the study Of atmospheric move
ment, which, not limited TO any continent
may enable storms and disturbances to be traced from