The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The skeleton of the largest eIe-
plant ever killed in India has been
found to measure ten feet six inches
high.
Rome leaving the Pope 1,00O,000 lire.
10 his sister he left monthly allow
ance of five lire.
At a bazaar in Vienna an English
millionaire paid 5000 for kiss from
one OF the beautiful stall holders-the
Marchioness Pallaviccini
Sir Conrad Reeves, the Chief JUS
tice OF Barbados, is of slave descent on
his mothers side, and is the first mu-
latto who has received the honor of
knighthood.
The Sepoys of India kicked up a
great rebellion about hogs grease. but
their tastes have changed in the last
five years and they now eat American
ham and bacon with as much gustO 2s
a European.
"A prominent Turkish official in
Constantinople laments the spread of
Christianity among the women of
Turkey. on the ground that it will
soon lead the Turkish ladies to dress
as immOdestly as Christian ladies.
-Cremation is apparently growing
in favor with the aristocratic classes
in England. One of the great landed
owners of London, and the descendant
of an illustriOus line of dukes (name
not given) is reported to have made a
donation of $1,000 to the Cremation
Society of England, and his body is to
be burned after death.
The total population of Bulgaria
and Rumelia, strangers included, was
ascertained on January 1st, 1888, to be
3,154,575. Of these 1886, 25O were
Bulgarians, 904,0 Turks, and only
$4,000 Greeks. The Turkish race in
Bulgaria exhibits a singular predomi-
nance of females, who number COZ, 900,
and 80, 900 of the Greeks are females.
Among the Bulgarians and other races
the males are in excess.
The Empress OF Russia, like her
sister, the Princess of Wales, never
wears high-crowned Or large-brimmed
hats, which. indeed, would be uusuited
to the delicate type of her beauty.
Every thing must be small and neat
and compact, whether hat or bonnet.
Her favorite cOiors are pale blue and
mauve.
In the town library of Nuremberg
is preserved an interesting globe, made
by John Schooner, professor of mathe-
mathics in the gymnasium there A. ID.
1920. 1t is very remarkable that the
passage through the Isthmus of Pan
anna, so much sought after in later
times, is on this old globe carefully
delineated.
-Hair-dyeing is becoming general
among the laboring people of En-
gland-nOt from motives of vanity,
but under the spur of necessity.
Working women. and even men, it APP.
pears, are given to decorating them
selves in this way as matter of ne.
cessity, and in order to earn their liv.
ing. Gray hair looks aged, and sug
gests inefliciency; o. perhaps it does
not, for some other reason, satisfy the
fancy of critical customers; conse.
quently it is not in favor with EN-
ployers. Hair-dyeing has therefore
become an established custom among
persons seeking employment.
From the last report of Krupp':
establishment at Essen it appears thai
in 1883 there were only nine wOrkmen
and in 1913. seventy-four. In July
1888, the establishment employed 20,
$50 men, of whom 1885 were a
Essen. Including the families of The
workmen they supported a population
of 1860 souls, of whom "a, 1913 live(
in houses provided by the firm. Their,
are at Essen /, 1875 furnaces of various
constructions, 2S6 boilers, ninety tive
steam hammers of from 100 to so, 00(
kilos, $40 steam engines, with tota
OF 27,OO0 horsepower, l,724 differen
machines, and 361 cranes. OF Goa
and coke, 2,735 tons are daily used
and eleven high furnaces of the lates
constructions produce 600 tons Of irol
per day.