The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-12
TBLEGRAPH1C NOTES.

5 5000, 900 a year.
Not a person has been killed in al
Maine railroad wreck since 1880.
Worlds Fair buildings will need
100, 900 incandescent electric lights.
Rebels in Chihuahua, Mexico, have
captured $4,000 in silver from a pack
team.
There is an organized band of horse
thieves working the western part of
Oklahoma.
Every native of the warm countries
now in Chicago is sick with either grip
or bronchitis.
An arbitration council to settle the
claims of Russia, England
and China is proposed.
A rush of immigration is looked for
soon on account of increasing depres
sion in foreign countries.
There are eight towns in Kansas
in which the women cast a larger vote
at the spring election than the men.
Two Confederate stamps recently
carried package from CRANKY, Miss,
to Boston without being detected.
The Victoria, which arrived at Ia
coma from China last week, brought
2I3 Chinese " actors"
King Humbert visited Queen Vic
toria at Florence and was heartily
cheered by the enthusiastic people.
Mr.. Gladstone actually applied in
vain for a seat for his own son in one
of the galleries of the House of Com.
mons recently.
Chicago hopes to have some genuine
Indian theosophists, BuddhistS and
Mohammedans at congress of relig-
ions this summer.
General Scofeld is trying to make
arrangements for a visit OF military
academy cadets to the Worlds Fair
during the summer.
A Kansas woman who held a man
up at a revolver point and went through
lis pockets has been sent to the peni-
Tertiary for two years.
1t is said at Calcutta that the Rus
sian Government his consented to the
appointment of Joint commission to
delimt the boundaries of the Pamirs.
Electric railroads in Ohio are SO
numerous that there is prospect of SO
many being jlmmed together as to
form continuous line across the State.
A prisoner was discharged at Lex
ington, Mo, recently, because the Off
Gals objected to the town being at the
expense Of heating the Jail for only one
prisoner
The wonderful influence of the sun
on earth is shown by the fact that dur
ing less than three minutes while the
last eclipse was total the temperature
fell three degrees,
Steel caskets for the bodies of those
who die suddenly on shipboard are be-
ing carried on many of the transatlantic
liners The remains are placed in
them and Theoretically sealed.
Seven miles north of Wadsworth,
New, very rich gold mines are reported
to have been discovered, and miners
are flocking to the locality,
The soldiers in many German garri-
son towns were trained in the use OF
snowshoes during the past winter, and
recent tests have proved the shoes to
be extremely usefulin winter maneuvers.
The kick of female ostrich at the
Fulton ostrich farm, near Pomona,
broke the leg Of John Lawrence, who
was employed there. Recently, the
same ostrich, in fit Of temper kicked
down part of heavy hemlock fence.
Numerically, the Stanford Univer-
sity faculty consists Of thirty-three
professors, seven associate professors,
fourteen assistant professors, fifteen in
structors, eight assistants and one non
resident lecturer; total, seyenty-eight.
Holland has in view the vast project
Of draining the Zuyder Zee, whereby it
is hoped to rescue for cultivation a ter
ritory almost as extensive as the DuChy
of Brunswick, and it has been estimated
that the undertaking will cost about
SIoo, 900, 900.
A Paris toy merchant has brought
out a novelty in the shape of a doll
wearing a Panama hat. On pulling a
string the hat disappears and its place
is taken by Conylct's cap.
During the week which ended March
3Ist the receipts from the gambling
tables at Monte Carlo were the largest
for twelve months in the history Of the
Casino. The total was about $4,8oo,.
900, thus warrantng the declaration OF
a dividend OF Sal per share, the largest
yet declared.
One account states that the labor
bureaus of the trade organizations o.
Melbourne contain names of I4,ooc
applicants for work, which does moi
represent half the unemployed, which
is over 1000. In Victoria there are
$4,000 unemployed, representing ITO,
900 men, women and children, who
are in half-starving condition.
George Hood, who has large sheeE
range, near Fountain ranch, near Ukiah