The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-12-27

On account of the manner in which she was
stared at and "made Jumbo Of, the Empress
Of Austria will not 10 fox or stag hunting in
England or ireland again.
Henry NJ. stanly has become thoroughly ac
climsted in Africa now, and enjoys excellent
health there He is bronzed by the sun until
he looks like an East Indian,
Preston Powers model for the bust Of Gar
field, for 0hio's memorial niche in the old Hall
of Representatives Washington, has been fin-
ished and placed on exhibition at Columbus
Ohio.
The daughter of ex-President Hayes is a
school-mate of Miss Molly Garfield at Cleve-
land. Rutherford Hayes, jr., has position in
the bank at Fremont of which his father is a
director.
Immediately after the recent election in
Pennsylvania, Mr.. Pattison, the successful
candidate for Governor, hastened to visit his
aged mother in Alexandria, Va, TO receive her
congratulations.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley has begun making
improvements on the Greeley swamp at Chap
paqua, and has given plot of ground to the
Episcopal Society of that village, on which
TO erect chapel.
Bramwell Booth, son Of the generalissino
Of the Salvation Army, was married a few
days ago at Clapton, England, his father ofhci-
atiDg. The ceremony was performed in tue
presence Of seven Thousand persons, admitted
at shilling head.
Ex-senator d. r. Atchison, of Missouri, for
SO hours ''interTegnum President Of the Uni
ted States, is now 76 years old, and is rapidly
failing in health. he is slightly troubled with
paralysis, and has almost entirely lost the
senses Of sight and taste.
Garibaldi's famous victory in 1860 was
commemorated at Naples by procession of
more than ten thousand persons from that city
to Santa Maria di Capua Vetere. AT Arco
Felice wrealhs were laid about ihe monument
and patriotic speech delivered by Signor
Crispi.
The grave of Emerson is kept constantly
covered with flowers by the young girls of
Concord. Hawthorne's, with a stone at the
head and foot bearing simply his name, is
thiclly overgrown with glossy myrtle.
Thoreau's is unadorned, save with thick sod
Of green grass.
Mr. Winans, of Baltimore, pays $4,000
year for vast tract of deer forests extending
from one side Of Scotland to the other Not
content with this, he has just leased another
estate, and has brought suit against the owner
for failing to eject the shepherds and crofters
who were on it.
Sir Thomas Watson, the famous English
physiciap, is seriously i'll, and not expected 10
recover He is now 81 years old. A stroke
of paralysis has prostrated him, but left him
in possession Of his mental faculties. When
stricken down, he calmly remarked to an at
tendsnt; "This is the beginning of the end"
Baron Reuter- was employed, when boy, in
a brokers' Office in Frankfort-on-the-M Main,
and while there he originated the idea of du-
plicating stock messages from London and
other large cities by means Of manifolding.
Soon afterward he conceived the idea Of estab-
fishing the general news agency which has
since made him famous.
staff Commander James Charles Atkinson,
the Oldest officer in the British Navy, has Just
died at the age OF 100 years. He commanded
the Penguin, and was captured and his vessel
destroyed by the American corvette. Hornet in
1915. For the past Is years he had been quite
blind, but otherwise retained all his faculties
unimpsired up to the very moment Of his
death.
The Rev George o. Barnes, the Mountain
Evangelist" is described as being a Ken
tuckian, tall, long haired, raw-boned and very
cadaverous. In Il fashion of his own he is
quite able, and has an Original and positive
way Of presenting the gospel. He has the
vernacular and nonchalance of a genuine
idieoms and slang.
Paul II. Hayne, the Southern poet, is man
Of medium size-perhaps FIVE and half feet
tall-with a well proportiOned figure, olive
complexion, dark, penetrating brown eyes,
and full, massive forehead He has highly
polished manners, cordial address, and SO
much natural eloquepce in conversation as to
remind every one of the fact that he is a
nephew of Robert Hayne, Daniel Webster's
famous opponent.
The Rev. Stopford Brooke tells of a conver-
sation be once had with the late Dean Stanley,
who urged him TO stay in the Established
Church and broaden it, "Will the Church in
my time or yours ever be broad enough TO
make James Martineau Archbishop of Canter-
bury?n asked Mr. Brooke. No, ] don't
think it WILL" replied the Dean. Then"
said Mr.. Brooke, a don't think it will ever
be broad enough for me"
Mr.. Oliver Ames, Lieutenant Governor elect
Of Massachusetts,, although now man ofgreat
wealth, was trained to work. and didwork for
years in his fathers shops as common jour
neyman shovel maker. The proficiency he
attained as a mechanic is shown by the fact
that he alone made all the prize shoyels and
other tools exhibited by the firm at fairs in
this and other countries. His example is being
followed by his son, now twenty years old,
Mr.. Labouchere tells the following anecdote
Of Mr.. Peabody: "Tips are seldom calculated
on proper basis. i remember once coming up
in the train from Brighton with the late Mr..
Peabody. He had bag which porter carried
for him, and he gave the porter penny and a
half. i have estimated observed the philan-
thropist, with smile, the value of that man s
time over and above his salary, and what
have given him is rather more than what he
ought to have The porter, however, did not
smile"
Coquelin the actor doesn't believe that ''the
man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his
client" He has just appeared at court III
Paris as his own advocate in the dispute be-
tween himself and NJ. Mayer. He argued his
case with skill that many members Of the
bar might have envied. But as he warmed
to his work, his dramatic spirit gained the
mastery, land by too vigorous gesture he
split his coat open from top to bottom. So in-
stead Of applauding the climax of his most
telling period the audience only laughed and
he laughed too.
In the hall of the House of Representatives
in Washington, each State is allowed space fol
statues or busts Of its prominent sons Hither
to Ohio has not used either of these inches
notwithstanding the popular belief that hei
supply of statesmen is inexhaustible. This
defect is now to be most fittingly remedied, as
at the last session of the Ohio Legislature,
bill was passed appropriating $4,000 for q
statue of General Garfield, to be placed in one
Of the spaces allotted to Ohio. Some Of the
most prominent sculptors Of the country are
competing for the work.
General George Macdonald, the father" O
the British Army, has recently entered his
nineiy-niuth year and is still hale and hearty
He was born only three years after Cornwallis
surrendered at Yorktown, and was sent as al
ensign in the expedition to Hanover in the yeal
to Trafalgar. In 1912 he engaged in the war il
the Spanish Peninsular; in 1914 he was il
canada, and at the seige of Plattsburg; and il
lslo' young man then of thirty-one, he wal
thrice wounded at Waterloo. Since then h,
has been Governor of Sierra Leone and O.
Dominica. But battle wounds. malaria anC
yellow fever have all failed to shatter his iror
constitution, and his health is still sound ant
his faculties unimpaired.
The Rev. Granville Moody, the Fighting
plfson, maintains that prayer he offered ur
on q certain occasion, while closeted witt
Andy johnson, was the means by which
the tide of war was turned and the Southern
rebellion crushed. Mr.. johnson had sent io
him at critical time in the Tennessee troubles
and asked him what would best be done
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