The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-04
NEWS AND NOTES,

Boston has begun to make war on
rollerskating Kinks,
The New York Board of Trade
and Transportation has adopted
resolutions approving the efforts to
test the validity of the Bell patents
in court and denouncing the tele-
phone company for charging $3.50
rental per month IN New York city.
At Cape Town in September a
meeting of their descendants was
held to celebrate the bicentenary of
the landing of the Huguenots in
Cape Colony. Few people in the
room, however, knew what Huguenot
really meant, and one gentleman
proposed that the memorial should
he "a statue of Huguenot, with
extracts from his works inscribed
round the base"
The new system of sixpenuy tele-
grams in Great Britain, has already
ncccssi,ated the employment of
2,S00 persons and the expenditure
of over 50, 800, 900. More than $50
miles of poles and 2l,O00 miles of
wire have been put in position, and
submarine cables have been laid to
the Channel Islands. In the city of
London four miles of additional
pneumatic tubing and nearly thou
sand new operating instruments have
been brought into use.
Statistics show that 1917 ,O55 women
availed themselves of the free public
baths in Boston this season.
Uncertainty, wonder and the
exercise of slkill'' are said by Sir
James Paget TO be the essential
elements of healthy recreation.
The highest percentage ever
reached in Civil Service examina-
tion in the United States was by
woman, who scored ninety-scven.
The Flood Rock explosion was the
biggest blast ever blown. Its
farthest observed effect was forty
eight miles from the place of eNplo-
sion.
The problem of caring for the
children of the polygamous mar
riages that are being dissolved in
Utah at the rate of ten a week will
soon assume great Importance.
The Maoris of New Zealand, who
numbered 100, 200 in Capt. Cooks
day, are said to be decreasing in
numbers at rate that will leave
the race extinct at the beginning of
the next century.
A Buffalo physician, when asked
the best preventive of smallpox to
carry in the pocket, it said to have
answered. 'Camphor gum" 1t is
the best. thing to have on the person
for that purpose and most all doctors
use it.
The lot on which the Young Men S
Christian Association building in
Atlanta, Ca, will stand once bought
the freedom of q slave. 1t was
owned by free negro woman, whose
husband was a slave. She offered
this lot for her husbands freedom
and her offer was accepted. The
lot now sells for $4,000.
The song of the shirt is still sung
in New York. Shirt finishers' wages
have been reduced from S1.24 a
dozen shirts to 95 cents dozen, and
the most they can make is six shirts
day.
The Hungarians make fur rugs OF
the skins of cats and mice. One
rug in which the fur was arranged
in patterns showing an infinite
variety of shades, was composed OF
the skins of 200 cats.
The resolution of the local Board
of Health at Montreal calling upon
the central Board to close the
churches, is meeting with great op.
position. The priests denounce the
idea in unmeasured terms.
Mrs. Grants will, giving the prin-
cipal of the fund of $3.50, 900, which
was raised for the benefit Of the
General, to her daughter and the
wives Of her sons, will keep the
money out of the hands of the Gre.
ditors of her sons.
The New York Heral0s Brussels
cablegram says: Lieut.. Coquilhat
has just returned after three years
stay in the Bagala country of the
Upper Congo, and fatty contradicts
the reported massacres of Europeans
there. He gives an optimist's ac'
count of the African Internationa
Associations progress, and declare;
that cannibalism in the Congo region
is dying out, and that the natives
are friendly. A special surveying
party is at work tracing the route OF