The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-04-14
NEWS AND NOTES.
London has $4,000 idle.


England VIII have hIillers'
Trust.
Skilled japanese get penny a
day.
St. Louis painters work eight
hours.
Boston BARRIERS want Sunday clos
ing.
Nashville BARRIERS favor Sunday
closing.
The cashmere shawl industry is
declining.
Philadelphia has eighty-four shoe
factories.
Columbus, Miss, has g girls in
dustrial school.
England eats 100000 American
cattle annually.
Merino sheep breeders recently
met at Rochester.
Englishmen now own Caspar,
Wye, soda lakes.
Buffalo VIII test the candle-power
of city electric lights.
America takes 7O0,000,O00 Europe
an oranges annually.
Reading granite-cutters want nine
hours and pay by the loot.
4 Philosopher is 4 man who can
feel as easy over his own troubles
as he does over his neighbours.
There are no philosophers.
BERLIN, March 1Sth.-The st.
Petersburg correspondent Of the
Berliner TagebIatt,the chief mouth
piece Of the Jews in Germany. has
been expelled from Russia under
the anti-Jewish DEGREES.
There is sometimes a dash OF real
humor III going abroad for news, as
witness this from the Honolulu
Commercial Advertiser: Chris.
Buckley. the politician, of San
Francisco, died at Redding, Cal,
from q supposed attack of hydro
phobia. '-TAlta-
The steady decline in the number
of valentines sent through the
mails is said to have been so
marked throughout the United
States generally this year that mail
clerks now look forward to time
when thoy will have q holiday and
can go fishing on st. Valentines
Day.
An Eastern exchange says that
the latest fashion for women is
crowns. Mrs. Wilton *. Wander
bilt, Mrs. Ogden Mills and Mrs. DR..
Seward Webb have attended opera
and sat through the performance
with their crowns on their heads.
The crown of the first mentioned
lady cost S3O0,000 and was ordered
TO resemble that worn or state
occasions by Queen Victoria.
The figures of the Census Bureau
on the subject of irrigation in Ari-
iona show what water can do in
the conversion of desert into
homes for mankind. The reduction
Of 55.2SI acres of desert land TO
cultivation and increase in value
from practically nothing to nearly
$50 an acre by an expenditure of
S23.97 per acre. shows profit OF
over 100 per cent on the outlay.
Count Bismarck says: Cigars
smoking ! have given up alto
gether. Of course under advice. 1t
is facilitating and bad for the
nerves. An inyeterate smoker,
such - 1 used TO be, gets through
100000 cigars in his life, if he
reaches u fair average age. But
be would live longer and feel bet
ter all the time if he did without
them.
The Exchange Telegraph Com
panys Berlin correspondent teIe-
graphs that he has information
from the highest sources to the
effect that feeling Of general IN
ea>noss prevails in regard to En-
peror Williams utterances. The
sane correspondent adds that
Chancellor Won Caprivi has signi
ficd 10 the Emperor his desire &c
resign Immediately upon the term
uatiou Of the autumn maneuvers
The Chancellor, il Is understood
does not approve of the imperial
ideas.
Professor Morey of Rochester
University, the, distinguished au
thor OF Roman Law" has sub,
mit,ed q paper to the American
Academy of Political and Socia
Science on the " Genesis of oul
Written Constitutions, which vii
shortly be issued by that body. HC
shows that so far from Mr.. Glad
stones famous words relating Il
tue origin Of the Constitution O
the United States being true, thai
Instrument WAS legitimate devel
opment Of the Constitution of Tho
colonies then existing, which IL
their JUrn had grown out of the
charters of the old trading com.