The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-08
Chr 9ails 9 slletin.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1885.
FACTS AND NEWS.

forced to discontinue running be-
cause of the heavy deposits from
hydraulic mining. The steamer
Modoc stuck on q bar n mile below
Sacramento recently, and worked all
day before it could pull itself over
the obstruction.
England is going to build a!HGor-
don Home for Poor Boys" as q
memorial of Gen. Gordon, and
Tennyson has cabled over the in
quiry I" whether America will organ
ize subscription for it. The New
York Herald has agreed to receive
subscriptions.
A hail-storm of terrific effect in
portions of Nebraska, besides de-
stroying and generally damaging
the farmers crops, killed many cattle.
The hail-stones in some instances
were chunks of ice. y
Fences cannot be built to height
of over seven feet in Buffalo, and
the Commercial records the i'm.
posing of $25 fine upon man
who had built his fence eight feet
high, contrary to the ordinance
governing such cases.
A corps of volunteer physicians is
ut work among the poor Of Brook
lyn, N. Y, and druggists are said to
be selling medicines at prices APP
preaching the actual cost of the
materials used.
The Mayor of Florida town has
given his entire salary to assist in
the Improvement of little park
there.
A seventy-five-year-old Birming-
ham, Conn. woman, who instituted
proceedings for a divorce from her
husband, twenty-five years of age,
has withdrawn tile suit.
A female military company is
soon to be organized in Asheville,
N. G.
The Marchioness of Salisbury is a
daughter of the eminent jurist and
scholar, Sir Edward Hall Anderson,
Baron Of the Exchequer, and is one
of the most thoroughly educated
women in England. She is fond Of
intellectual society, and cares little
for the fripperics and frivolities of
| fashion.
A horse over forty years old is
still doing good service in the city
of Mexico. He was used at one
time as a cavalry horse in the United
States Army.
The White House, which has not
been painted for seven years, has
become so shabby as to offend the
sensibilities of the Washington peo-
pie.
The odd fancy of o Michigan man
is to build his summer residence in
form of huge lantern. The site
for the structure is on bluff over
looking Lake Huron.
An American expert, who has
travelled in both countries, asserts
that the speed of English trains is,
on the average, one-fourth greater
than that of American trains. The
new contracts required that mail
trains in England must average a
speed of forty-six miles an hour.
There are in Paris $50 tradesmen
who do nothing but deal in old
postage stamps.
Russian army officers claim that
the return of Salisbury to office will
render the Gar more resolute to GO
ahead with his projects in the Afghan
country.
Wolves are still so numerous in
France that premium of zoe
francs is paid for killing full-growr
male. Last year 1908 of the crea
lures, old and young, were killed.
The expenditure Of Europe il
ornaments amounted last year to
fl83,519,997. Russia is easily frs
with total Of more than GAG, 900,
900, France is second with NOR
than f35, 900, Great Britain
third with nearly f31, 500, 200, ant
Germany fourth with over f22,5o0
900.
The venerable Primate of Englisl
Roman Catholicism, Cardinal Man
ming, is man of war. 1t is note
worthy sign of the times that h
presided at meeting held the othe
day to advocate the defense of tn
Thames and other rivers and sea
ports with volunteernaval and torped
corps.
Edward Strauss, a musician from
Vienna, now playing in London
must be greatly affected by his owl
music, for, according to Londo
paper, he twirls his violin in the all
dances to his own music and rushe
to and fro; he menaces a musicia
to the right with his bow, to the LEI
with his fiddle. He smiles, b
weeps; he is, particularly to til
English mind, quite absurd.
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