The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-11-15
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Miscellaneous
The Lord Chancellor of England receives
salary equal to that Of the President Of the
United States.
James Gordon Benefits steam yacht Namo-
una was not failure as reported, but is now
said to suit her owner very we'll
The new monument to be erected TO Thomas
Jefferson, author of the Declaration Of indie
pendence, President Of the United States, etc.
is to be fourteen feet high andto cost $4,000.
Rome has been celebrating her 2,635th birth
day, on which occasion the new excavations at
the Pantheon and Forum were thrown open to
the public.
The King of Italy has signed decree dis
charging the Chamber of Deputies. New cleo
lions will be held at the end of this month
Senior c. c. Moreno was a member Of the
Chamber.
The Fenians appear to be preparing to at
tack Windsor Castle The KEYS we're recently
stolen from all the most important locks, and a
supply Of over 500 new locks for the entire
building was ordered.
The strength Of the Egyptian army will be
10000 infantry, cavalry and artillery. The
officers aud soldiers suspected Of participating
in the revolt will not be admitted The officers,
however, will all be Turks or Circassians.
A petrifed human form was found in
Pennsylvania the other day, one thousand feet
under the ground Sometimes it is found
necessary TO bury book agents as deepa as that,
but as general thing seven hundred feet is
deep enough.
The official investigation into the conduct ST
the Jeanette exploring expedition promises to
disclose great deal Of unfriendly feeling, and
jealousy among the officers. Jerome j. Collins,
the Herald correspondent, is reported TO have
been shamefully treated by De Long.
Canadian whisky recently got tbs better Of
Slade, the Spirituaist, and he gavea humor-
ous Seance in which he unwittingly exposed
good many Of his own tricks-slate-writi
and others. Some young men, it is said, piled
him with this object in view.
A New York dispatch states thai the veteran
editor Thurlow Weed is inevitably but slowly
sinking 20 the grave, though momentarily here
and there better. His great age is against him,
and the improvements do not last long. Private
advices say the worst must be looked for in
the very near future.
The English writer, Captain Mayne Reid,
has finally been placed on the pension list of
the United States Government. He was an
officer in the LIST New York Volunteers lGener-
al Ward Burnett's regiment), aad was wound
ed at Chapultepec. His case has been pending
some time, and he has been obliged to wait, as
others have.
Malcolm Khan, the Persian Ambassador in
London, recently went to Vienna on an extra
ordinary mission. In private audience he pre-
scented to the Emperor richly ornamented
autograph letter from the Shah, informing the
Austrian monarch that another son had been
born to the Shah, to whom had been given the
name Musred Eddin-"S Supporter Of the Faith.
No city now in existence has met with
greater vicissitude than Alexandra. At one
time, in the days Of its greatest splendour, it
contained 100000 people. This population had
dwindled down in the beginning Of this century
to 5000, and they are about as wretched and
impoverished people as ever survived the ruin
Of great city. In 1926 the population had
increased to 10000, in 1910 to 10000, in 1871
10 2l9,602, and in 1881 the number was est
mated at 275, 900.
A "Green Ribbon" army, composed of all
members Of Roman Catholic temperance organ
isations throughout the United Kingdom is
about 10 be formed, the distinguishing badge
being bit of green ribbon worn at the button
hole, just as the blue is displayed by members
Of the Blue Ribbon" army. The Green
Ribbon" army, il is stated, is to be in no way,
directly or indirectly. associated with politics,
its sole motto being, Total abstinence from
intoxicating drink"
A locallink between the names Of Sir Walter
Scott and Robert Burns is about TO be broken.
Only once in life did the two meet in person
in the house Of the historian Ferguson, in
Edinburgh. Until lately that house remained
the finest in its neighborhoOd. But now the
garden has been built upon, the house itself
subdivided into worldngmen's apartments, and
soon the structure will be entirely removed,
the place rebuilt upon, and, perhaps, the fact
Of its historic interest be forgotten.
Whether or not ex-President Hayes ''builded
better than be knew, when he bought bis big
Dakota farm, it seems to be pretty well settled
that be selected about the choicest piece of land
in the Territory, both as regards the land itself
and lite location. 1t lies in the northern portion
-Burleigh County-six miles from Bismarck.
on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
The soil is a dark loan, with some sand, CIV
ing II such warmth as to enable crops to be
planted two weeks earlier than in other parts
Of the Territory. Mr.. Hayes had this year $40
acres in wheat, the yield Of which is reported
to be very satisfactory.
The distribution of the population according
to dominant typographical features may be thus
stated: Or the immediate Atlantic coast,
north, 2,ele,s92; middle, s,375,lsi; south,
81, 3s7; on the Gulf coast, l,055,s5l in the |
billy and mountainous region Of the northeast,
,669, 226; in the mountainous region of the
central Atlantic slope, 2,334,223; in the i'm
mediate region Of the Lakes, 3,0i9, 40; on the |
table-lands, and elevated plateaus Of the in |
terror, 5,7l6,326; in the south central noun |
famous region, 2,695,0s5 in the Ohio valley, |
2,442793; in the south interior table-lands |
and plateaus, 1897, AVS; IN the Mississippi belt
south, 40 ,26S; north, 1891 1862 in tie south
west central region, 2,9S2,607; in the central |
region, 4,40l ,z46: in theprairie region, 5,T22,-
ass; in the Missouri river belt, $685. on
the western plains, 32s,sI9: in the heavily |
hmbered region Of the northwest, l,l22,3S7 I;
III the Cordiileran region, 932, 3ll on the Pa |
ci6c coast, 7l5,6s9.
An exhibition of ancient and modern lace |
will be held at Brighton, England, during the |
current month, which can hardly fail to prove |
very interesting. 1t is expected that the ex- |
hibits viii be arranged in Chronological order
and classed under the various schools, as Ital- |
ian, French, Flemish, Honiton, Buckingham |
and Limerick. The Glasgow Herald, in speak |
ing Of the forthcoming exhibition, states that |
II is to Italy that lace making as well as most |
departments Of modern art must look for the |
impetus carly received. 1t was in Italy that |
the first books of lace patterns were compiled, /
and the raised point, in the flowing decoration |
style Of the Renaissance, seen later in the |
Venetian point Of the seventeenth century, be- |
trays its Italian origin and development in its |
very name The later Venetian point has not |
been surpassed, only iEsitsted in The point
a. Alencoa, poiaf dAgyeiidIs, and the modern |
point gaze made at Brussels. Flanders pillow |
lsces were never anything but cheap limitations
Of needlepoint lace. In its decline, lace dwin-
died into the hiInsy Valencieunes and Mechlin, |
which readily lent themselves to the frills and |
chickering's Of the modern dressmaker. The |
modern lace revival is said to have gone /
through YerY aimilnr phases To those Of the old L