The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-04-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

connected with the stage in Lon
don.
Rome is said to be growing
faster than any other European
city.
The first geographical map o.
England was made in the yeal
1920.
To make one pound Of honey the
bees must visit from 10000 TO 2O0,-
Geo flowers.
The London Religious Tract
Society last year issued 100000
publications.
The foreign trade Of the United
States in manufactured furs reaches
S5,000.000 = year.
A Salt Lake City editor, who Is
blind, Is to have his eyes replaced
by those Of 4 rabbit.
Geneva, o., thinks it has the only
horse in the world that can turn q
complete somersault.
The Sultan of Turkey has at
tached TO his body guard . soldier
who Is 10 years old.
Arizona has q gross area of 49,
O20 square miles, Of which only l20
square miles are water.
4 Gordon. Ga, school teacher
promoted boy to the head of the
class for spelling cat ~quatte.
OF the 100000 wage earners
this country, 100000, or "A per
cent, are engaged in farming.
Fifteen closely printed pages of
the London city directory are filled
by the Smith family in that city.
A woman Of Augusta, Ne, is 90
years old, yet Is considered one of
the best piano players in that city.
During Z fire in Buffalo, \. Y,
case of lamp chimneys fell from
the third story, and not chimney
was broken.
The sister-in-law of i pauper in
the poor house At Glasgow, Scot
land. has bequeathed 10000 for
church purposes.
There are said TO be over %, goo
Indians in the United States who
can read English, and over 10000
who can read Indian languages.
4 Yale, Mich, business man
whose sign reads s. Undertaken and /
Photographer Is said to give q
photograph with every coffin he |
sells.
In the United States SO, $50, S29 |
of tea and 499, l59, 12O pounds of |
coffee were used in the last year of /
record. The value of these imports
Is S9l, 54S,925.
The French chouvlnists rebel |
against the use of the English
word yacht" and in Difference to J
their feelings the word VIII prob
ably be spelled "faute."
A mechanic Of Covington, KY,
has succeeded in welding alumni
MUM with glass, and the manufac-
ture Of flexible glass, be thinks, IS
involved in his discovery.
Smart little boy 1T the breakfast
table - " Mamma, I want three
Jumps of sugar instead of two"
d" Why, my child? Because
sugar Is on the free list.
4 Mussulmau If now travelling 1
through India collecting money for
q Mohammedan mission in England.
Part Of the money is to be spent /
building : mosque at Liverpool.
An official letter from the East
ern Lunatic Asylum, of Virginia,
to the governor Of that state,
states that one of the inmates has
been there for 81 years, and is 100 |
years old.
Chesaning, Mich, has i man that
goes into frances and converses
with the angels. While in this |
state he can be lanced to the bone |
without bleeding, the wound heal /
Ing in ! few hours.
The new States have already re-
ceiyed their nicknames. Washing |
ton Is the a Chinook State North |
Dakota the " Flicker-tail State. |
South Dakota the Singed Cat
State and Montana the Stubbed- |
toe State.
An immense mine Of graphite |
dead pencil lead) has been discov-
cred near the city of Wladikawkas
In Asia. II Is said to be excellent, |
and Is good roads lead from the /
nine 70 that city it viii be utilized |
immediately.
The custom Of keeping birthdays |
Is many years old. 1t IS recorded !
IN the fordeth chapter Of Genesis, |
twentieth verse: " And 1t came to |
pass the third day, which was
Pharaoh birthday, that he made 4
feast unto all his servants.
: number of Japanese, direct
from TOl-io have uurchssad land /