The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

y BennSN INauta PoAtCSiu'Au has
been fined for profanity.
Thieves moved \ Germyn, Pa,
meadow at night and took the hay.
A Hughesville man was recently
robbed of 500 while at church.
In Spain an infants face is
brushed with pine tree bough TO
bring good luck.
DroughtS and frOsts have nearly
destroyed the Rhine wine harvest
this season.
IN immigrant recently arrived
at New York with "a children,
ranging in age from l TO % years.
Women in Sweden have obtained
official PERMISSION from the Govern
ment to be received as pupils Of
apothecaries.
The first alligator seen in the
Arkansas River for many years has
been killed at Little Rock. 1t meas
ured FIVE feet
Helen Kellar, aged II years, :
pupil in the Boston kindergarten,
can play the piano fairly well. The
child was born deaf, dumb and
blind.
A St. Louis father and son, sep
arated for ten years, have been re-
united. The boy ran away from
home when ten years of age, and
had been in Denver.
An automatic machine has been
made which forms, fills, weighs and
seals packages in those establish
ments where large quantities OF
goods are constantly put up.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, has = thrashing
machine haunted by spooks, which
put out the ire in the engine and
distracted tools from the work
box. which four men were watch
ing.
Mrs. David Richards OF Evans
vile, Ind, whose husband is q poor
man, employed as carpenter in a
railway shop, has fallen heir to
$4,000 by the death of a sister in
New York.
4 babe born at Danbury, Conn,
weighs less than two pounds.
When born it weighed one pound
and two ounces. Its length is that
of an ordinary pencil. The child is
in perfect health.
The finest sapphires in the world
are owned by the Countess Bran
icka, Polish woman. The finest
diamonds in the world are owned
by Nine. Andre, and her pearls are
also considered beyond all COM
parisOn.
4 gentleman advertised yester-
day in our columns" DoS lost"
This morning the dog went home
of his own accord. He thought it
was no use to attempt to run away
if the newspapers were after him.
OswegO Times.
The detonation OF 4 new heavy
caliber gun at Ingolstadt, Bavaria,
recently smashed all the windows
Of a railway train that was passing
the artillery range at the time.
Fortunately none of the passengers
were injured.
A Lyons anatomist has examined
the skeletons of eighty-six mon
s.1-eys- chimpanzees, gorillas and
orang-outangs-and has found dis
eases Of the bone to be as frequent
as in man, and of strikingly SINH
lar character.
Rev. VI. o. Jarvis Of EagIetown,
Ind, Is aged 20, and throughout his
long life he boasts that he never
swore an oath, drank q drop of
liquor or smoked cigar. He has
been preaching since he was IA
years of age.
1t looks as if they had recently
began to rigidly enforce the Pro-
hibitory law in Portland, Me. A
hotel-keeper of that city has made
an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors, and in his statement to
them he says the failure was due
to the strict enforcement of the
law.
Martins Ferry (Ohro) farmers
are on q sail hunt for 4 mysterious
wild animal that has made great
slaughter of hogs and sheep.
Several men who have seen it at
night describe it as walking some
times on all tours and sometimes
upright. Country people all over
the country are in continual dread
of 1t.
Near St. Louis, recently, after
the death OF q man thought to be
in destitute circumstances, his rela-
tives were cleaning up the house
and discovered an old trunk con-
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