The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-25
VIEWS AND NOTES.

Opportunity, sooner or later
comes to all who work and wish
Lord Stanley.
An Alabama cat has a mania for
stealing young chickens from their
natural mothers and raising them
herself. She is generally success
full in making them fine hens and
roosters.
| 1t is q singular fact that while
a majority of the officials at tho
Maidstone Jail, in Kent, England.
are suffering from Influenza. thus
tar not one of the prisoners has
been attacked.
a Lawrence (Kansas) drug
store window is ornamented with
two enormous native leeches,
which measure q foot each in
length and have, combined, blood
capacity of one gallon.
A Burlington woman refused to
contribute to the fund for the sup
port of her pastor because he some
times practices law while engaged
in the ministry. She holds that no
man can be good Christian and
practice law.
Montana is larger than the EN-
pire of Turkey. Texas is larger
than the whole Austrian Empire
by 10000 square miles, and New
Mexico is larger than Great Brit
ain and Ireland together.
To get rid of flies, expose in
plate q strong decoction of quassia
chips and brown sugar. The fiy-
papers sold for the purpose are
made by smearing melted resin
with little sugar on paper.
At Frankfort, KY, a servant
girl visited the Geological Gardens
and, unseen by any one, took off
her clothing and jumped into the
bears pit. Her mangled body was
found in the pit the next morning.
At recent all night session of
the Pennsylvania Legislature there
was high jinks in the house. Fire
crackers, cats, owls and other mu-
steal accessories were introduced
to keep the members awake.
A couple were married the other
day at Columbia, Kas., in one of
the dry goods stores of that city.
1t is not stated whether the bride
ran up bill before she left the
store, but the inference is that she
did.
Equal parts of cream of tarter
and saltpetre make an excellent
remedy for rheumatism. Take one
half teaspoonful of the mixture and
divide it into three doses. Take
one of these doses three times
day.
A burglar invaded the study of
an indianapolis priest, locked the
door, ransacked the place and left
BY window, requiring the rever-
end father to crawl through win
dow when he wanted to get into
the room.
There is an entire neighborhood
Of mutes living in Coolspring Town
ship, Laporte County, Ind. They
are prosperous and Intelligent far
ners, and appear to enjoy life as
we'll as any other community in 8
n that county.
A thief in New York stole the
bed from the house in which he
had engaged lodgings, and was
to make off with the
oedstead when be was caught. He
carried the bed downstairs on his
back at 2 O'Clock in the morning.
A remarkable volume will soon
20 presented to the Harvard Uni
'ersity library. 1t contains manu-
cript copies of all the commence
nent programmes of the college
rom 1880 to 1890, and specimens
# the order OF commencement ex-
rclses at intervals from the first
graduation in 1912 to the Revolu-
ionary war.
In the city OF New York there
re over 10000 people who earn
ess than sixty cents day. Thous-
nds Of this number are poor girls
Who work from eleven to sixteen
iours day. Last year there were
yer $4,000 families forcibIy evict-
d in that city owing to their IN
bility to pay their rent. One
erson in every ten who died in
lew York in 1889 was buried in
'otter's field.
The way to ruin is cheap. It
osts So to go to Philadelphia, Sc
, Boston, s33 to Savannah, but by
ne purchase of a bad paper for 5
ents you may get through ticket
ruin, by express, with few stop
ing places, aud the final hating
ke the tumbling of the lightning
ain from the bridge at AshtabuIa
a sudden, terrific, deathful, never
, rise.
The Catholic American, speaking
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