The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-03-06

never stay later than II o'clock, do
( you?" No, indeed, Bobby, and often
not as late as that That's what
pa said. he told me that there was
no danger of your ever staying any
later than a quarter of -, because
the saloons close up at II
Here are four sentences said to be
taken from composition written by
a Philadelphia pupil after hearing a
lecture on physiology: THE human
body is made mp of the head, the
thorax, and the abdomen. The head
contains the brains, when there is
any The thorax contains the heart
and the lungs. The abdomen con-
tains the bowels, of which there are
five, A, Il, l, Q, and Z, and some
times W and Y"
1t is said that of the 120 Chinese
youth who We're sent to American
colleges in detachments of thirty,
under the charge of the Chinese Com
mission, all but about a dozen have
obtained positions in their own coun-
try in different departments of the
Government, as civil engineers or as
naval officers or teachers in the naval
school OF the few who returned
to America, the majority are Chi
nese Consuls; some are attached to
the Chinese Legation. One, Hong
Yen Chang, graduate of Columbia
Law School. is striving for admission
=, A. NJ
c. ?. Huntington. the railroad
builder and capitalist, used to sell
butter in the mines in California.
George Peabody, the millionaire,
sawed wood in Boston for his board
and worked eleven years in a small
country grocery in Massachusetts.
John Jacob Astor, founder of that
rich family, used to peddle pies out
of a handcart in the New York streets
which are now lined for miles with
the property of his grandchildren.
Ii we started to pick out the million
aires of the future we would go
amongst the barefooted boys whose
noses are freckled and whose hands
are not attended to by manicure.
OF the twenty-six widows of Revo-
lutionary soldiers drawing pensions
from the Governments. three. at least. I
are out West. Mrs Betsey Walling-
ford, who is 80. lives in Mankato, |
She was Is when she married iona
than Wallingford, who was 80 years
old, and had served all through the |
war of the Revolution. Mrs. Sarah |
B. Dabney of Barry, Ill, is SO years
old. She was Is when she married |
John q. Dabney, who was 81 years
old. Mrs. Olive Charlotte Morton of /
Clio, Mich, is rs years old. She was /
Is when she married Peter Tuman,
veteran of 81 years. He enlisted as
a soldier III the war for independence
when but Il years old, and served g.
years without receiving a scratch or
being i'll day
While Nathaniel Hawthorne was
Consul at Liverpool, lad was
brought to him who claimed to be
from Hawthorne's town, Exeter, n.
H., and who desired to be sent back
to it. The British captain fancied
the boy an English impostor wishing
to get a free passage over the Allan
tic. Hawthorne came out of his
room, and looked keenly at the eager,
ruddy face of the boy. You want a
passage to America?" Yes, sir"
And you say you're an Americana"
Yes. sir" From what part of
united States, sir"
What State?" New Hampshire.
5ir" "Town?" Exeter, sir" Haw-
.horne looked at him for a minute
before asking the next question.
Who sold the best apples in your
.own?" ''Skim-milk Folsom, sir"
aid the boy. with gIistening eyes, as
he familiar by-word brought up the
lear old scenes of home. "Rightm
exclaimed Hawthorne, nobody but a
genuine Exeter boy would know
okim-milk Folsom. Get him his
passage directly"