The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-04
LIFE IN OLD LONDON.
THE TALK OF THE BIGGEST
TOWN KNOWN TO MAN.
Torn Finery and Bruised Toes at the
Queens First Drawing Room How
Lord Salisbury Rebuked the
Watch Pullers.

den Truth "was very large one, but
there was exceedingly little beauty
among the company The dresses and
Jewels were magnificent"
"The crushing and crowding of the
various barriers were worse than ever,
and there we're some violent alterCa
tions and furious appeals to the be.
wildered officials. Several ladies had
their trains dashed from their arms,
with the result that they came in with
the train extending in front for some
yards, and two or three narrowly csCap.
ed awkward falls Others had their
bouquets utterly destroyed, and many
entered the Throne Room with DISNEY.
eled heads, t,rn wells, broken feath-
ers, and crushed sleeves Some ladies,
indeed, presented as lamentable ap-
pearance as if they had been engaged
in a free fight. Two had most pal
pable bruises on their arms, and an
other complained, with pardonable
aCrimony, that she received a severe
blow on her neck from the cooked hat
of "some savage who had attempted
to push past her"
Lord Salisbury and the Time Gun
While Lord Salisbury was giving his
reply to the deputation from the Liver.
pool Chamber of Commerce in the
Town Hall, an incident occurred which
at the moment was a little embarras
sing, but which was also not without
an amusing side. Every day at I
O'Clock time gun is discharged on
the Birkenhead side of the Mtrsy,
being fired by electricity from Bidston
observatory. The gun went off on
that day just as the noble Marquis was
speaking about West Africa as the
country we should look to to afford
new markets for our goods. Instant
ly, by force of habit, nearly every man
in the room took out his watch to note
the time. This was quickly noticed
by Lord Salisbury, on whose counte
nance an embarrassed look suddenly
appeared, and with some apparent ap
prehension he expressed the hope that
he was not keeping his audience too
loGg.
A Lord with a Hobby.
No member of the House of Lords
lives in greater retirement than Thomas
Lyttelton Powys, Baron Lilford. This
is owing not 50 much to disposition,
perhaps, as 20 the unfortunate fact that
he is cripple, and moves about in a
wheeled chair His hobby is natural
history some departments of which are
more completely represented in his
museum than in any other. He is one
of the greatest living authorities on
British birds, and never allows anything
in the market bearing on this subject
to escape him. He is said to possess
the only two black woodpeCkers in
England,
"Peggiug Out"
"Pegging out" writes Mr.. Labou-
Chere, has been the ruin of many en-
pires. Athens was ruined because it
took to 'pegging out" claims in Sicily.
Rome would have been ruined long
before it was had not the wisest of its
Emperors taken up the pegs that his
predecessors had inserted beyond the
Danube. Napoleon the First would
never have lost his throne had he not
endeavored to mould Europe in the
French character and taken 20 "pegging
out claims everywhere. And the
British Empire will perish by expansion
if we do not abate this "pegging out
mania.
Has Travelled 3,4o4452 Miles.
One of the worlds greatest railway
travellers is Mr.. Ben. Jeans, who is EN-
ployed on the Great Western Railway
and has been a passenger guard for Sc
years, having joined the service in IS42
He is IA years of age, and, after allow
ing tor holidays and illness, has travel
ed the extraordinary number of 3,494,
472 miles, never having met with al
accident.
The Rainiest Day and Hour
Mr.. Glaisher, the aeronaut, asserts
after long and patient investigation
that the ninth day of the moon is tn
most rainy of the whole 2S, and that il
the first and last weeks Of the moon
age the rainfall is less than the average
The records kept by Mr. Glaisher alsc
indicate 4 O'Clock in the afternoon a
the rainiest hour in the day.
She Kissed the Blarney Stone.
Lady Aberdeen a few days ago mad
an excursion by moonlight to Barney
and there, by candlelight, kissed tn
"BIarney Stone" in order to qualif
herself before going out to the Iris
Village at the Chicago Exhibition
where she is to be at home most Of tn
time in a cottage with matched roo
The Silver Bomb.
A new play, entitled "Prince Kara
tof"-the second a being long-is t
be put in rehearsal at once by Mr.. an
Mrs Kendall at the Avenue Theatre
London. In this Mrs. Kendall wi
play Nihilist, and the central interes
lies in a bomb made Of silver whic
passes as a drawingroom ornamen
The author is Mr.. Harry Dam.