The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-01
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There are six female police officers
in London at the present time, and il
| has been decided to add seven more to
| their number.
Queen Victoria still has her boots
made in the old-fashioned way-elastic
sides, soft kid uppers, pointed toe-caps
and low heels.
There is National Foot Path
Protection Society in England. Its
object is to resist attempted encroach-
ments on footpaths or roadside land.
1t has fifteen branches and member
ship of several thousand.
London has twenty-nine vegeta-
rian restaurants. the staple articles of
whose bill of fare are the cereals, the
legumes such as peas, beans, haricots
and lentils, and various kinds of fruit.
The English Duke of St. Adams
receives a pension of 500 a week as
Master of the Hawks, although hawk
ing has completely died out in En-
gland. He is direct descendent of
Nell Gwynne.
Death from misadventure was the
verdict returned in the inquest of an
English laborer who met his death by
sucking one of a number of pheasants'
eggs laid about the grounds of his en-
ployer for the purpose of killing ver-
min.
Prescott. in Lancashire, town
long famous for its watches and watch
tools, has been losing its trade of late,
and when it was clear that something
would have to be done, there was
meeting in the Town Hall, at which it
was resolved to start watch factories
on the American plan, with improved
machinery and processes A company
was formed with e1OO,O capital.
According to the Paradise of the
Pacific, published at Honolulu, that
city publishes three daily and three
weekly papers in the Hawaiian Ian
guage, two daily and two weekly pa
pers in English, two weeklies in
Portuguese, one weekly in Chinese and
two religious and one agricultural
monthlies. The papers are well print
ed and edited as in like-sized COM
munities in the States.
,ztMiss Hildyard, who became gov
erhess to the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal when they were little
children. died short time ago. They
always remained her devoted friends,
and the Princess would always greet
her with an affectionate kiss, it is
stated, whether they met in private or
in public.
The Sultan of Morocco is gradually
beginning to understand that the
world is not afraid of him. A diplo-
mat who was received by him the
other day kept his hat on during the
reception, which took place in the
open air, and the Sultan did not re-
sent it. Heretofore he has compelled
diplomats to stand bareheaded before
him while he sat on horseback.
Members of the Institute of France
appear, as class, to be extremely
longlived. The late M. Chevreul was
a notable example; indeed, he is the
only member who ever lived beyond a
century. Yet. although he entered
the institute at the comparatively early
age of forty, he is only fourth on the
list as far as official life is concerned.
Cassini was a member for seventy-five
years. Fontenelle sixty-six, and Jussieu
sixty-three, M. Chevreul, at the time
of his death, had been member sixty
two years.
-Sportsmen in India are attacking
a set of rules lately promulgated by
the Chief Commissioner of the Central
Provinces, the effect of which is to put
a practically prohibitive tax on big
game shooting in that part of the
peninsula The central provinces con-
tain many thousand square miles of
forest land, which have been the happy
hunting ground of the Anglo-Indians.
The result is that tigers, panthers and
other beasts have been getting scarce.
and the local officials have determined
to preserve" the game for their own
amusement
Kaiser Williams prediction for
the navy has now become by-word.
Ills Majesty loses no opportunity for
showing the officers and men of his
heet that he wishes to secure for them
as privileged position as that always
enjoyed in Prussia by the army. Naval
reviews are now as popular. and there
seems probability of their becoming
almost as frequent as military specta-
cles. Instead of spending the summer
at Ems or at some other inland water
ing places, the Kaiser intends to trust
to the saline breezes of the deep for
the annual restoration of health and
the recreation necessary after the hard
work OF a Berlin winter.
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