The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1877-02-07

The great 1o1ton gun OF the new Italian iron
clad DuiliO, carries shell weighing 1000 pounds
and moving at the nate Of ,S74 feet per second-
much faster than sound travels through The air
With charge OF $50 pounds, the 2O0o-pound pro
ieete moTed even faster than this having velocity
OF S56 feet per second, giving blow equal TO ID,
force required to lift Q. 400 tons foot high.
The firm attitude which Russia has taken. demanding
change Of Affairs in Turkey, Snd threatening to Sc.
care reform in the provinces BY resort to arms, Il
necessary, with disAroEal Of ambitious designs, has
had its elect No Of the European powers il
wiling to spPesr as the champion Of Turkey. They
al profess neutrality, and will probably unite in de-
handing an Immediate change and . thorough reform
il the government Of the Provinces. Russia has
peEed herself to that this Is done, she has
to occupy the Provinces With Der armies. which she
Is preparing TO do England Is coming to the point
Of reforming instead Of uPholding Turkey.
This is an excellent year for antiquities. CesnolA
and Schliemann have surpassed themselves, not
only 10 discovering relics but in recovering irea-
sures George Smiths BabyloniAn antiquities
have arrived At the British Museum MANY OF
the tablets represent the renewal Of loans aud mort
cages so that the documents referring TO the first
and the last OF continuing transactions bear the
dafes Of several different reigus- The dates thus
extend from the fall OF the Assyri1u Empire TO the
reign Of Darius Hystaspes, including daies 10 the
reigns OF NaboPolassar, father of NebnchadueZZsr,
ETil-Merod.ehs Canbyses, and the elder and the
younger Cyrus The dates Of the tablets, therefore,
furnish very important chronological landmarks
and are in many respects subFersiTe Of the recent
chronology. The rate OF interest current In Baby
Ion or loans was generally 10 per cent, and much
light 4 thrown The s0eisl life Of the BabyonaDs
from the circumstance that witnesses Of deeds are
alwaYs described BY their trade profession. One
OF the tablets Is dated in the reign Of King BEL
shaz1r. There Is large number Of mathematical
tablets giving calculations Of considerable intri-
eAcy."
Atthe recent Investigation ofthe Brooklyn Theatre
calamity an actor thus testified 10 regIrd to CALLER
les: "Well like most tbeatres, there was no
mears OF eress- 1t lie the last thing calculated or
thought Of because It IL cheap place Mr.. Charles
2. GardneF, friend Of mine, once built thea
ire In Chicago and on Friday nighi-ihe opening
WAS 10 be on saturday-he said: ny I've made
no stairs 10 the gallery. How are the people to
get ups Il wasn't bow they were to get out, bat
how are they 70 Be got In there. ! once made cal
culafion 70 see low many people could be accom-
modAfed in the gallery Of thestTe which was
managing. aud found BIZ allowing eighteen inches
for eaEh uz1-thSt WIS the space ne used to allow
for burying Yankees when was IN the army under
Lee-1haf there gas space Tor so people We sold
ore night L 80 tickets for that gallery How the
people got 10 I don't know, but they were there"
Dr1uking spiritoous hqnors said 70 Be % the
increase in Fr11ce- The duty on these products
has yielded 8, 600 ooE over tie estimate OF 26l-
81 00oL. The London Tuna says: "a similar in
erease may usually Be found 10 our own Budgets,
satisfactory IL may be the Cha1ceior Of TIE Exebe
q1er, Il tells uelaDcholy tzie OF sei-fDd1lgeuce
Ind vice The growing consumption Of spirifuOus
liquors in F1nee Is one Of seyerai signs that her
people are Iosng their old habits Of sobriefy The
drinking Of nbsinthe In her eat cities threStens 70
become as great 4 curse as the drinking Of gin 10
our owl. The National Assembly has attributed
many Of the excuses conmitted By the Ccunn-
nists to the fact that daring their defence Of Paris
great misses Of the people we're habit1ally intoTi-
czted- Most Of the pezssnfSy Eo1ld still Be pat
tern Of sObiety 70 our Own working people, bat in
Parts even Of sxrieulr-ral France there q Iess ten
perzrce than there used 10 Be.