The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-10-15
NEWS AND NOTES.

SuIlivan's consolation is In know
ing that it takes twelve men, good
and true, to knock him out
The rice harvest has begun on the
Savannah plantations. The crop is
estimated at 100000 bushels.
In Connecticut, "the land of
steady habits" the average pay of
the public school teacher is $500 a
year.
More books and magazines in Eng
Iish are now read in Paris than at
any time previous in the history of
the country.
The Queen of Madagascar is tall
slender woman about % years old.
Her complexion is light and her
face sad.
John 1. Blair, the New Jersey
railroad king, recently testified in a
legal proceeding that he was worth
from S40.OO0,0O0 to S60,000,000.
The wanton slaughter of birds in
Florida has led to an increase in
the number of snakes. The pond
birds are great destroyers of the
reptiles
A free country is defined to mean
one in which a man can do as he
pleases if be does not interfere with
another mans right to do as he
plesses-
The shipping trade between New
Orleans and Central America en-
ploys 1000 seamen, mostly Nor
wegians. Swedes and Danes. They
get SIS per voyage.
The President Of the United States
Hay Fever Association estimates
that there are 100000 sufferers from
hay fever in that country, and that
the number is constantly increasing.
The French Government, not con-
tent with depriving Boulanger of his
decorations and honors, has removed
his wax efigy from the Musee Gre
Win, where it formerly occupied
place of honor.
Russell Sage is something more
than a mere business machine. He
served three successive terms in
Congress, during which he original
ed the idea of purchasing Mount
Vernon and keeping it as national
domain.
David B. Robertson has a sun
flower stalk on his premises in Sey-
mour, Ind, that stands nine and
half feet high, is eleven inches in
circumference at the ground and has
lis large blossoms and many buds
on It
The Victoria and Albert, the
Queens yacht, was built at Penn
broke in 1854. She is constructed
of wood, sheathed with copper and
cost s136,441 at the outset, and about
f310,000 has since been expended on
her.
An importer of Shetland ponies is
authority for the statement that a
wrong impression prevails that these
ponies are bred IN the Shetland Isles,
whereas there are fewer there now
than probably any other quarter of
the globe
The growth of Russia's naval
power on the Black Sea is very
marked. Besides an addition to her
feet already underway she has just
ordered three immense ironclads of
1000 tons, 12,000-horse power, and
SIX heavy guns.
Edinburgh, with a population of
100000. has no street cars on Sun
days, giving the cabmen a monopoly
which enables them to charge one
third more than on week days.
There are no trains and the day is
given up to religious worship.
4 coat of many colors," manu-
featured IN Belfast, has been for
warded for the Prince of Wales in
spection. 1t is made of 745 pieces
Of silk, velvet and cloth, black, blue,
green, white, yellow and red, 345
hours having been spent in its manu-
facture-
The Australians are getting ahead
Of Webster They are coming words
with considerable boldness, and
among the latest is the word
coastal" which is equivalent to our
@-coastwise" IF postal" be correct
there can be nothing the matter with
coastal
The German Emperor has revoked
the statute which made it necessary
for his mother, as ex-Empress, to live
IN Germany, and she can therefore
go where she pleases. In return she |
has surrendered, it is said, all the
papers and diaries of the Emperor
Frederick.
There seems to be a contest among
the States the present month in re-
spect to which one has living within |
Its borders the Oldest pair of twins. |
Massachusetts, claims the champion
ship with Mrs. Saliie Cole and Mrs.
Hepzibah Everett of Denham. They
were born IN 1877.
At the limestone quarry of Peter
Callahan at South Bethlehem, n. Y,
on Monday, the largest displacement
Of rock at one blast ever made in this
country was accomplished. Twenty
two Thousand tons of rock come
crashing down. The force used was
one ton Of dynamite Elk.
4 UArnc 1siV at Bower Snrincs