The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-11-17
No.. rl6ere.. sl.nd.ri in ,be nerly aoquIrsd

f1,r ,f the most curious scientific meetings ever
arTanced Is about TO be held at Rome, and the
chief feature of this anthropooglcal congress VIII
be collection ef 200 skulls OF criminals, nunlyel
81 and classified 10 these will be added the pno.
topraphs of 5000 and the brains OF more than iSO
couyicts thousands of autographs, poems, sketches
nd special instruments, the works Of criminals
album containing record Of lOV oosers -. snc
ordinary men. There will also be graphic maps
of crime in Europe with reference 20 meteorology'
food institutions suicide, etc; tables OF the STAT
ure of the arms, and a crime in towns compared
To that in the country. Photographs of Russian
political and other criminals. especially oil those
from Moscow, and wax masks Of large number
of celebrated criminals will also be exhibited
All the notabilities in the science OF criminal an
thropology will take part in the congress-
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TIE Batteuberr family does not come of lofty
parentage fact the source from which II springs
i somewhat muddy. "Sixty years ago, Count
Bruehl a Prussian functionary, had in his service
a little clerk named Hauck. The Count was Ad-
ministrator of the Berlin Museums, and he was a
descendant Of the celebrated Saxon minister, VIM
created the porcelain mandatory at Meissen.
Compelled to reduce his establishment and TO dis
charge his little clerk, the latter went to warsaw,
where he found a situation as door-keeper az
theater He had the good fortune TO attract the
notice of the Grand Duke Constantine, Governor
of Poland, who gave him q commission IN tne
army, where he soon attained the rank OF Coionei;
Killed during the instruction of l6jO, the Oranu
Duke sent MS orphan uhukuleA " -
St Petersburg and she there married Prince Alex
ander of Hesse-the brother of the Empress-who,
on account OF this mesalliance, had to leave ST.
Petersburg. She bore him three sons, OF whom
one Is the son-in- law of Queen Victoria, and an
other Prince of Bulgaria, that these two person.
ages are grandsons of the little clerk aud door
keeper named Hauck."
PROJECT is on foot for an overland line Of tele-
eraph from India to Europe through central Asia.
An important feature Of the project is found in the
fact that it is intended TO combine commercial
with such strategic points as may be deemed neces
sary in its construction. Charles E. Pitman, chief
superintendent of telecraphs in India, in pamph-
let on the subject says that the proposal is for an
extension of the Indian telegraph lines from Cha
man. IL miles east of Candahar and about 63 miles
west of Quetta, via Candahar and Herat to Mes
ched, near the Persian frontier. Persia has al
ready a telegraph line from Teheran to Mesched,
which is TO be extended to Sarakhs, place which
has already been put into telegraphic communica-
tion with Merv and the Caspian by Russia. II the
Ameer could be induced to construct line through
Afghanistan and guard il there would be no physl-
cal difficulties OF any importance between Quetta
and Herat. The total length Of the new line re-
uuired Is a little over GOO miles. viz, about 400
miles from Chaman to Herat and 90 from Herat
to Hesched. The line between Mesched and Tehe-
ran would provide complete land line between
England and India. The connection With the Rus
sian system at Sarakhs via Askabad, Baku and
Tihis would give an alternative route. Turkey has
a line which runs from COnstantinople via Dia-
bekir and meets the Persian line westward from
Teheran. The construction of this system, it is
asserted by the Manchester Guardian, would Oper-
ate 20 lower the Indian cable charges and prove of
great advantage in the commercial exploitation Of
Asia Minoa.