The Hawaiian gazette., 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 10 200,-
600 flowers.
The London Religious Tract
Society last year issued 100000
publications.
The foreign trade of the United
States in manufactured furS reaches
100000 = year.
A Salt Lake City editor, who IS
blind, Is TO have his eyes replaced
by those Of rabbit.
Geneva,O thinks it has the only
horse In the world that can turn &
complete sOmersault.
The Sultan Of Turkey has at
tached to his body guard . soldier
who Is 10 years old.
Arizona has . gross area of 49,
02O square miles, Of which only 120
square miles are water.
a Gordon, Ga, school teacher
promoted , boy 10 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 SO
years old, yet Is considered one of
the best piano players in that city.
Daring 4 fire in Buffalo. \. Y,
ease Of lamp chimneys fell from
the third story, and not chimney
was broken.
The sister-in-law of q pauper in
the poor house NJ Glasgow, Scot
land, has bequeathed $4,000 for !
church purposes.
There are said 10 be over %, O0O |
Indians in the United States who |
can read English, and over 10000 |
who can read Indian languages.
A Yale, Mich. business man
whose sign reads e." Undertaken and
Photographer, Is said to give
photograph with every coffin he
sells.
In the United States SO, 68G, 829 !
Of tea and 499, l59,1 2O pounds of
coffee were used in the last year of
record. The value Of these imports
Is S9l, 54S,925.
The French chouvInists rebel !
against the use Of the English
word yacht, and in Difference to J
their feelings the word viii prob
ably be spelled "faute.
4 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 at the breakfast
table - Mamma, I want three
lamps Of sugar instead Of two"
d. Why, my child? " " Because
sugar is on the free list
A Mussulmau IL now travelling
through India collecting money for
a NOhammedan mission in England. !
Part Of the money is to be spent
building = mosque at Liverpool.
An official letter from the East
ern Lunatie 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 conyerses
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-
eeiyed their nicknames. Washing
ton Is the " 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 - 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
10 the fordeth chapter of Genesis,
twentieth verse: And it came to
pass the third day, which was
Pharaoh's birthday, that he made
feast unto all his servants"
) number Of japanese, direct
from Toxic. have Durchased land