The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-04-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

100000.
Never was whalebone so dear as
it is now-s5.50 pound.
A distinctive church dress fol
women to wear on Sunday is pro-
posed in England.
Hyde Park, a large town recent
ly incorporated with Chicago, has
not a single saloon.
The underground system of tele-
graphs of the German Empire has
q total of $500 miles, and has cost
slO,219,OOO.
Emperor William has instructed
= German railway official to make
an exhaustive examination and re-
port On American railroads.
Experiment tends to show that
the edges OF the fame of a petro-
ieum lamp give from 81 to IS per
cent less light than the fiat sur
face.
There are $4,000 dressmakers
in Paris. Is it any wonder that so
many dear creatures imagine that
''via Paris is the nearest way to
heaven.
"Town" is the correct thing in
New York to write on the lower
right-hand corner of the envelope
now, instead of city" for local
letters.
A spoonful Of powdered alum
sprinkled in q barrel of water will
precipitate all impure matter to
the bottom, says the Pharmaceu-
teal Era.
A fourteen-year-old girl who
was sworn as witness in Cam
den, \. j., murder case said she
had never seen a Bible before she
entered the courtroom.
Dr. SchHeman's grave is in the
new cemetery at Athens, in full
view of the Parthenon. 1t is not
far from the spot where Socrates
used to sit under the plane trees
and battle his feet in the Kisses.
Excavations at Winchester have
brought to light the massive foun-
dations Of the palace Of William
the COnqueror and the Norman
kings. One fragment of the wall
is eighteen feet long and four feet
thick.
Total abstinence dinners are be-
coming so frequent in London that
enough dissatisfaction has been
caused to produce the suggestion
that invitations to such entertain
ments should be marked with q
blue ribbon.
During the year 1890 more than
one hundred and twenty new COM
panies connected with electrical
engineering were registered in
England, the total capitalization
being upward of S65, 0OO,O OO.-Elec-
trlcal Review.
A book note from London / IN,
as follows: People who are f ,rtnn
ate enough to possess first edition
of Burns Will do well to end tben
into the market while. the Graz
lasts. A copy which sold for Sc,
in 1887 sold for Sc 20 last season.
A stallion belo ,noine to : MERGE
County (Kyl man was bitten by
rabid dog some time ago and wen
mad the other day. 1t attacked
jackas,a, and for fifteen minutes
terrible battle ragged, ending in th
stations death. The jack wa
MORALLY wounded and was kilIet
to put hum out of his misery.
Another English steamship ha
been chartered to load Baldwin
locomotives at Philadelphia TO
Sydney, New South Wales. R. W
Cameron 4 Co., of New Yorl
effected the charge, and the vesse
will succeed the steamship Dur
hurry. and bound here to load 70
a similar voyage. The vessel WI
be large one, capable of takin
out a large number of the locomC
tives.
To some pungent remarks of
professional brother a Wester
lawyer began his reply as follows
MAY it please this court, Resin
upon the couch of Repnblica
equality as l do, covered with th
blanket of constitutional panopl
as l am, and protected by til
agis of American liberty as | fe,
myself 10 be. l despise the buz.
ing of the professional insect VIII
has just sat down and defy his a
tempts to penetrate with his pun
sting the interstices of my impe
vious covering"