The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-05-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

LONDON, April 20th,-A despatch
to the Graphic from Kief says: 1t
is stated in military circles that the
government intends to increase its
forces on the southwestern frontier
by $4,000 men.
Conflicting reports come from
England about Mary Anderson. 1t
was reported that she was another,
but this is denied. She and her
husband, Antonio de Navarro, are
at Bournemouth, Eng.
The Welch tin-platers will close
their works for one month, from
July LIST, being forced to restrict
the output in consequence of the
new American tariff law.
VIENNA, April 2Oth.-A Jewish
lawyer of st. Petersburg writes to
a friend here that all Jews residing
in st. Petersburg have been ordered
to leave the city by May Sd. This
means the ruin of many Jews.
PARIS, April 17th.- Medical cir
cleS in France are greatly interest
ed in the new system of treating
tuberculous diseases. The new
method was discovered by PROBES
sor Germaine See. According to
his plan a patient suffering from
tuberculosis must pass four or five
hours daily in a close chamber
where the air is saturated with
creosote eucaIyptom. Several ex-
cellent and permanent results, it is
announced, have been obtained.
Few people, says the st. Louis
Republican, can form a definite idea
of what is involved in the express
sion, IAN inch of rain" 1t may
aid such to follow this curious cal
culation: An acre is equal to 6,272,-
$40 square inches; an inch deep of
water on this area will be as many
cubic inches of water, which, at
227 to the gallon, is $4,000 gallons.
This immense quantity Of water
will weigh 100000 pounds, or 100
tons. One-hundredth of an inch
GOOD alone is equal to one ton Of
water to the acre.
The London Social Purity Soci-
city. Of which W. T, Stead is the
leading spirit, has been making
itself unusually prominent of late
because of the novel method it has
taken to carry out its object. The
detectives have been watching var
ioCs members of Parliament and
other prominent men and obtaining
evidence against them in their
amours. The damaging facts have
been forwarded to the wives of the
recreant statesmen with the advice
that they rid themselves by divorce
from such unworthy partners.
Strangely enough, there are critics
who express an inability to perceive
how the cause Of public morality is
to be served by such means.
According to an article in the
Forum by Arthur T. Hadley, the
average amount received by rail
roads in the United States for car
rying 4 passenger one mile is 2 10
cents. In England it Is about 2
cents, in France not quite a cent
and half, in Germany q cent and
q quarter, in Austria about 4 cent
and in British India siX-tenths of a
cent The differences in these
rates are more than compensated
by the superior service which
American roads give to their pas
sengers, and taking speed, convent
ence and comfort into considera-
ton, American railways afford the
cheapest passenger rates in the
world
The Chilean war is taking on the
character of wholesale butchery.
The latest news came on the 18th
inst. from the New York Herald's
correspondent at Santiago. Two
battles have been fought at Paseo
de Almonte, and the Government
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LOO dead, 1900 wounded and
1000 prisoners. Gattling guns
were the principal weapons used
by the insurgents, and over half of
the Government troops engaged
were put out Of the fight. England
and Germany are thinking of inter-
ferring in the matter British mer-
chants and shipowners have
brought great pressure to bear
upon the Government to put an
end to the existing state of affairs
which threatens to be prolonged
indefnitely,and is causing immense
injury to British and German as
well as the French interests on the
west coast of South America.
Y.