The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-01-23

Thirty-two thousand photographs brought
up in the Dead Letter Office at Washington
last year
A stone dwelling at rhGuixville, Pa, weigh
ing 500 tons, has Just been moved 1000 yards
without injury.
Richard Conway has for the thirteenth time,
been sent to the penitentiary by New York
justice for wife-beating.
Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame,
has recently become citizen Of the United
States, by naturalization.
During October lO6s miles of railroad were
built in the United States, making total Of
gl45 miles for the year TO Nov. LIST.
The New Orleans Companies turned of the
gas in the streets and all public buildings in
that city lately because of the non-payment Of
bills
Thar IL advice enuif now laying around to
run three just such worlds as this; what we
are suffering most for IL sum good examples
Josh Billings.
The interest on the English national debt
amounts 70 thrice the estimated income Of all
the members Of the House OF Peers.
The Duke of Norfolk is the richest of Eng
glish mobiles They rate him at SIS, ,OOO, 900.
Next to him comes the Marquis of Butte.
sydney, New South Wales, has a refuge
which last year, housed and breadasted 1000
people for the amazingly low sum Of $3.50.
Seven of the largest English trades-unions
have spent in six years SIC, 100000 for the
defence, support and relief of men out of work
A woman has Just been awarded $1,000 dam
ages by Cleveland court because of cough
she acquired in a freshly plastcred hotel.
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with scenery and furnished for theatrical per
formaDoes and used for that purpose in the
United States
Killing alligaters for their skins and teeth
employs large force Of men in Florida who
have engaged to furnish 100000 skins 10
French tannery in a given time.
During quarrel between two negro en-
ployses in Virginia iron furnace recently,
one Of the combatants was hurled into the
mass Of molten iron, where he was burned TO
death.
There are about $4,000 locomotive engines
in the world, and l2O, 900 passenger and 5OO,-
900 freight cars. There arc 200 900 miles of
track, and the capital invested is $40, 600, ,OOO-
900.
The four buildings for the Worlds Indus
trial and Cotton Exposition in New Orleans
NAS ~ nav AfNNNgNNg oilNaAN AISA VI NAAlhlAlNl
space, and are to cost in the aggregate only
E255,OOO.
The largest farm in the world is probably
that Of Samuel Mackey of New South Wales.
His land runs 700 miles in one direction, and
comprises 5000, 900 acres, and has been nearly
all reclaimed from the desert
In the whole Russian Empire of nearly
OO,0O0,OOO persons there are only 776 jour
nails and periodicals Of all kinds. Eighty-two
Of these are government gazettes, and forty
four arc organs Of the ecclesiastical author
ities.
Postal cards were introduced by Prof Eman-
uel Herman of Vienna. They were first used
in England, German and Switzerland in 1870,
in Belgium and Denmark in ISL, and in Nor
way, Russia and the United States in 1872 -73.
The man who endeavored to discover per-
petual motion and failed, somehow never
thought Of getting situation as newspaper
reporter. If he had, he would have found it,
The new Bey of Tunis is described as ga
short-legged, obese, little man, near sighted
and deaf" who, when he desires to review
the troops on horseback, must be lifted into
the saddle.
There was recently a lively sewing circle
at a minister's house in Baltimore, because
some one had removed a nice talking parrot
from his cage and substituted one which was
used TO talking in sailors boarding house.
A genius has invented an umbrella with a
detachable handle, upon Withdrawing which
the ribs are automatically locked. Replacing
1t unlooks them, and no two handles fit the
same umbrella. There is doubtless in pro-
spect future when 1t will not be worth while
to steal a mans umbrella.
II is thought that the earliest patent in the
United States was that granted by the Com
monwealth Of Massachusetts, te Samuel Wins
low, who had invented a method of manu-
featuring salt. ''None are to make this arti-
cle," said the patent, except in manner
different from his, provided he set up his
works within a year"
(Drd1ldiis persona. e.-Paterfamilias and his
"0nly Hope" aged twelve The latter is
busy at his lessons.) Only Hope Csuddenly
looking up from his books -"Pa, who was
Shylock?" Paterfamilias with a look of
surprise and Tor1-"Grcat goodness, boy,
you attend church and Sunday school every
week and don't know who Shylock was? Go
and read your Bible, sir"
The French Ministry of Commerce is eng
aged in drawing up the particulars of the
patents for inventions granted in France since
the foundation of the present republic The
NOAh ~ AAA y eNihlAtAS uH " Aut Nuu VI 1870
During the eight years prior TO 1876 there
were nearly a mean annual average of 7 900
applications for patent rights. In the sue
oeeding years the number OF applications has
considerably increased.
An English firm say they have, after long
series Of experiments succeeded in ALLOWING
manganese with phosphorus and tinand cop
per, producing metal which, for tensile
strenth and durability, they think will be
superior to any alloy in the market. The
phosphUT- manganese tin may be used in the
same manner and in similar proportions as
phosphor iin, though it is better to cast at a
little higher temperature, but the result will
be found much superior both as regards hard
ness and tensile strength.
Experiments, says the Nature, have been
described regarding the iiquefaction of oxygen,
nitrogen etc. At l36 deg, oxygen liquefies
under pressure of 22.5 atmospheres. Nj
trogen al the same low temperature does not
iiqusty even under pressure OF l5O atmosp-
heres, but ii the temperature is kept constant,
and the pressure somewhat slowly diminished,
care being taken that il does not become less
than so atmospheres, the nitrogen becomes
liquid Carbon bisulphide solidihes at about
l0e deg, and alcohol at 1905 deg.
From the latest reports regarding the cholera
in Egypt which became epidemic last sum-
msr it appears that the germs Of the disease
are always present in the Nile delta and only
wait the circumstances which 20 to their
development to make pestilence at any time.
The disease does not seem to be imported. Ii
has an abiding place in the country. Now
That Egypt is so closely connected with the
great distributing centres Of commerce of the
world, tie final report Of the Scientific Com
missi0ners will be looked with for interest and
given an attention worthy of the subject.
IL is well known, SAYS a medical journal,
that some highly arsenical wall papers have
been used without manifest injury to the
health, while others, on the other hand, though
containing much less arsenic, have produced
distressing results. Il may be that in the one
case volatile arsenieal bases have beer formed
ana not IN the othes. The fact that the fire.
9ueniers Of dissectius rooms where bodies
are injected with preparations Of arsenic do
not suffer from arsenic poisoning is, however,
adverse to the formation OF these bodies
unoer the influence Of putrefaction unless in
very exceptional casas