The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-11-15
News and aossips from Abroad.

Ex-King Theebaw's crown jewels are
to be exhibited in London.
When the British Parliament meets,
IS3 policemen are on hand to pre-
serve order
A number of men have been arrest.
ed in Paris for displaying placards caii
caturing Bismarck.
The King of Holland heats his Am
sterdam palace with base-burner coal
stoves Of American make.
Sir Richard Sutton is not only Jolly
tar, but mighty hunter as we'll He
rents $4,000 acres of the best deer for
est in Scotland. 'ee Nsi
There has just been congress OF
Wears at Wakefield, Goldsmith's vii
lage. The vicar declined an offer OF
theatrical money for church purposes.
A new cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan
was produced at the Leeds Musical
Festival 1t is called "The Golden
Legend" and the text is founded on
Longfellows poem.
The Duchess of Buccleuch gets
$2,5oo year from the British Govern
ment as Mistress Of Robes, and eight
other Peeresses $4,000 apiece as
Ladies OF the Bedchamber. ''' =
A strawberry-grower in Lanarkshire
cleared 6I,3oo profit this season out
ofthe crops of ground for which he
pays a rental OF 600 year. Last
season the profit was just 81, 900.
Sing song Of Erinl a country all awry;
Five times twenty statesmen couldn't tell you
When her case is opened there is precious
Isn't that an "1rish stew" to set before a
Queen1
Prussian smugglers wrapped 81, 200
worth of lace around a strong TO
months heifer, and tied false skin
over the whole so successfully as to defy
detection. They passed the heifer very
easily at the customs Office, the Excise
Commissioners admiring her size and
beauty, and some Of them offering her
feed.
A parrot was allowed in the witness
box in a London court the other day.
Poll was not sworn, but she settled the
case, which was one of disputed owner
ship in herself, by turning to one
claimant and doing all that he com
manded, while the other was deliber-
ately snubbed by her.
The Land League has just won its
first victory in Wales. A farmers
goods in Ruthen were distraineo for
rent and his horse was sold for f,
and resold to the tenant. The sale
came to a standstill. The auctioneer
and bailiffs withdrew pelted with rotten
eggs Then followed an indignation
meeting Of farmers
Munich payers relate that Baron
Hermann Won Liebig the son of the
great chemist, recently got into a
stormy alteration with the manager Oi
a vegetarian restaurant, who had posted
in the show-window a placard denoun-
cling Liebigs meat extract as the acme
of humbug and rank poison. 1t is said
that the matter will be brought before
the courts.
A Berlin paper has computed that al
the recent dinner of the Congress ol
Naturalists in that city there were con
sumed 1000 pounds of beef, 1000
pounds of salmon, 1000 pounds of lob
ster, TOO ducks and 200 beef tongues.
The production of single sauce, the
Bernaise, required 200 pounds OF but
ter aud 1909 eggs. Two hundred and
fifty walters were in attendance.
Ex-King Theebaw of Burmah is dis
contented with his place of exile, Rut
nagherry. He complains of dreariness
and dullness, and that it is infested
with snakes and scorpions. He asks
to be restored to the throne on the
ground that he was removed from
Mandalay on the understanding that
he was to meet the Viceroy and tha,
he was to be sent back lnthree months
On account of the spread OF cholera
the Austrian and Hungarian Govern
ments have issued special orders that
a close watch be kept on ports and the
frontiers. Quarantine regulations have
been abandoned as useless. All per
sons arriving at ports by railway OF
canal will be medically inspected. AT
Trieste there were reported fourteen
new cases of cholera and one death,
and at Pesth thirty-one new cases and
sixteen deaths q
Various Items.