The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-11-08
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Misoenhnoous.

Henry n. Stanley, the African explorer, ha
arrived in London.
Alexander II. Stephens was elected Cover
nor Of Georgia, by nearly $4,000 majority.
Queen Victoria has commissioned }. D. Lin
ton to paint for her picture Of Prince Leo
pold's we ding.
Professor Brooks, as onomer, Of Phelps
New York, estimates the length Of the tail "a
the comet at 50,OOO,OOO r,ilos.
Nearly 500 Europeans, drawing an anuua
salary Of $4,000, 900 have been employed Il
the civil service Of Egypt to the exclusion O
natives.
Since January list, this year, the Board O
Freedmen, in Havana, has declared free q, ,gUl
slaves, in accordance with the emancipatioi
law.
The receipts and expenditures Of The proviucD
Of Ottawa for the last fiscal year were Re.
ceipts, S33, ,7sl 1881; expenditures s27, 81, ,gO2
surplus, s., PESTS.
The coal output Of Illinois last year wal
100000 tons, valued at slI ,OOO, 600. Illiuoii
is now second to Pennsylvania as a coal pro.
ducing State.
The Mikado Of Japan has decorated Prince
Bismarck with the order Of the Chrysauthe-
mum, making the fourty-fith bestowed on the
Prussian premier by various potentates.
Major General Irwin Mcdowell, commanding
the military Division OF the Pacific, has beer
placed on the retired list Of the army lately
aud was relieved by Major General J. NJ
Schofeld.
Mrs. Mason, wife Of ex-Sergeant Mason,
United States Army, received last week IRON
ihe publisher OF the Philadelphia Pres,
26.s2, subscribed in ten cent bits by over
900 contributors, for the relief Of " Betty
and the Baby"
Mr.. Bancroft, the eminent American histori-
an, who was a co-temporary and friend Of the
illustrious Prescott, Motley aud Irving, who
have preceded him to the other world, on the
Sd OF October, celebrated his eighty-third
birthday.
A Texas paper describes an s,OOO-acre
ranch in that State entirely devoted TO the
breeding Of ponies for children. The breed
ing stock consists Of seven Shetland stations
and forty-hve mares, all thoroughbred, and
200 small spotted po.y mares. These little
ponies range over the prairies like sheep,
and are described as very gentle.
1t is among the strange anomalies of the
American dramatic stage that the negro dialect
seems to be gradually disappearing from the
contemporaneous drama since the abolition Of
slavery and the establishment Of equal rights
for all races, while at the same time the Irish.
German and Jewish dialect parts flourish to a
for greater extent on the American stage than
ever was known before
During the first half Of the current year the
Russian revenue exceeded the anticpations OK
pressed in the last budget, the excess over the
receipts for the FIST half Of ISL amounting 10
over $500, 900, and the expenditures being
Sl2,0OO,0OO less than the first six months Of
1881, although in excess Of the receipts about
lOo,0Oo,OO0, against an excess Of over S2s,O ,OOO,-
500 in the first half Of last year.
According to the recent dispatches from
Egypt, the Brish authorities in that country
seem to be endeavoring indirectly to make use
Of Mahommedan Ulemas to influence the Arabs
submission Of British rule, by inculcating the
doctrine Of passive obedience as a duty taught
by the Koran. No doubt this oxpedient must
have been used before with the Mussulman
races Of India, which constitute the flower Of
the native troops Of the Indian army.
Italy is the headquarters Of the renewed
system Of reducing dead humanity to ashes.
According to Dr. Pint, the highest authority,
there have been Ia Crematious at Milan.
Thirteen Of these incineration associations are
actively working in Italy, where three distinct
ovens and apparatus are doing business in three
different localities,and they are preparing others
at Rome, Venice, Turin, Padua,. ,.Genoa, Bologna,
and Modena. Germany runs bad second TO
Italy. In France they are agitating the gues-
ton, but nothing has yet been done. England
10 practical, and thinks the burning of peoples
bodies is likely to come soon enough.
General Sir Garnet Wellesley, though he
s..gslI -. u 4 &. s.H ]
unprecodentodly young for an English COM
mander-iu-chief. His youth, indeed, is visible
IN his face his voice and in every movement Of
his spare, active frame. His clear, blue eyos
and healthy, fresh face seem to refute the mower
Of his gray hair, which he wears closely crop-
ped, in military fashion. The General is. and
always has been, great smoker, chiefly Of
cigarettes. He considers tobacco the best
possible restorative after prolonged mental OF
physical exert;ons. On occasions when he has
had 70 keep awake and alert fUr hours he has
found tobacco more eleCtual than coffee. and
be has smoked all night long
The old adage about pouring coil uuon the
troubled waters is about 10 be tested in
most practical manner. A few weeks since a
number Of distinguished individuals" wit
messed the laying down Of the pipes along the |
banks at the entrance Of Aberdeen harbor, |
Scotland, for the purpose Of putting into per
mancnt use "the practice af pouring oil on the !
water to calm it in stormy weather. and thus |
facilitate the entrance Of vessels The Glas- |
gov Herald states that the Aberdeen Harbor |
Commissioners have been the first to avail |
themselves Of this new plan" and that its sue |
cess or failure will be watched with keen
interest throughout tile United Kingdom 1t |
will be some time before tile project can be |
tried, as the laying Of the pipes is q slow pro
cess. The material to be used is fish oil, |
which can be obtained at a cheap rate.
Ford Castle, IL Northumberland, England. |
around which was fought the famous fight |
Of Flodden Field, is advertised to be let. at |
which antiquarians are grieyously shocked. /
This castle is Of great antiquity, though uoth-
ing certain is known Of it until 1887, when It |
is matter Of history that extensive repairs |
were made. Toward the end of the fourteenth |
century il was partially dismantled in a bor-
- nay. In 1913 It was captured bv James |
sse4f Scotland. This is the true date Of the /
S.,SSSkce of Ford Castle King James found
ihai Lady Heron, wife OF the p0ssessor Of the
lastle, had remained behind it to guard it
against the enemy, while her husband was a
prisoner over the border. The King became
with Lady Heron ere he had long
the place, aud for her sake, It Is
said. refrained from destroying Il. Il was
his dallying, say the historians that cost
King James his awful fate on Floddeu Field.
Lady Heron, it appeared afterward, was in
constant communication with the English
General, Lord Surrey, who took advantage Of
be delay and rushed on to Flodden. The
-oom occupied by the King is still preserved
n the old portion Of the edifce.
The estimate Of the wheat product Of Cali
ornia for 1852 is 100000 bushels. We DO
Iot mention the fact so much to show up the
.roat aggregate as to institute some compar-
sons. The product Of only one State exceeds
hat Of California, and that is Illinois, which
reduces this year little over 81 ,OOo, 900
,ushels. To Indiana we find credited pro-
uction Of 10000, 900 bushels, to Ohio 40 $780,
90, 10 Minnesota Al, 500, GOO bushels. The
rOduct Of no other State reaches 10000, 900.
I is a curious fact that California exceeds the
outhern States combined by 500, 600 bush
4 and all the middle States combined by To-
oO, 900 bushels. The New England States
,gether produce only 100000 bushels,
file the yield for Colorado and the Terri
,ries for 1852 is 100000 bushels. The
tai wheat yield for the country is estimated
526, 400, 600 bushels. This great and con-
.antly increasing harvest is obtained at severe
rpense 10 the soils of the States devoted to
ie culture. The English farmer is appalled,
tue agricultural capabilities Of the Western
-orld, and is an1iously waiting till, through
le exhaustion Of American soils and the en-
anced cost Of production, he viii be able to
accessibility compete with Aeriean farmers