The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-14
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astronomy were destroyed in Eng
land as savoring of magic.
The Norwegian Medical Congress
will hold its meetings on a yacht
cruising in the regions that the
midnight sun shines upon.
The Star-spangled Banner " is
an adaptation Of "Anacreon in
Heaven" composed by Dr. Sam
uel Arnold of England in 1870.
The Dyak head-hunting has a
religious origin. The Dyak be-
lieves that every person he kills in
this world will be his slave in the
next
The principality Of Ratzeburg
celebrates queer anniversary this
year, the twenty-ffth anniversary
of the want Of quorum in its rep
resentative assembly.
The bending of iron piping and
bars of any section without kink-
ing or 1attening them is now
claimed to be accomplished by
recently invented machine.
Down to the present century
part of the marriage ceremony in
Hungary consisted in the groom
giving the bride a kick to remind
her of her subsection.
The weight of a molecule of
hydrogen is approximately o.ooo.-
900. 900. 900. 900. 900. 10000 of a
gramme; the atomic weight of iron
is o.ooo. 900. 900. DOC. 600. 900. oo2. 2
gramme.
Bicycles have so far satisfied the
military authorities in Belgium,
where the first trial was made of
them at the maneuvers of 1888, that
their more extended use is now
contemplated.
A rare bird in this country is the
African snake" which is owned
by resident of Munroe, La. The
bird is web footed, and was swim
ming among the finders ducks
when captured.
1t is noteworthy that the old
courthouse at Cadiz, Ohio, which
was erected in 1916, and which is
being torn down for a more pre-
tentious structure, has never had a
death sentence pronounced within
its walls.
A Rochester man has devised
plan by which a trolley streetcar
can be stopped almost instantane-
ously, or within space of three
feet, while the car is going at full
speed. His device is operated by
lever in the motormans cab.
A fish was caught in the lake at
Hebron, Swabia, in the year
1897, which has brass ring at
tached bearing record of the fact
that the same fish had been caught
in the year 1890 and released after
having the label affixed to its
body.
When an Armenian maiden at
tains her seventeenth year and is
not engaged to be married, she
must undergo strange punish
ment. She is forced to fast three
days, then for twenty-four hours
her food is salt fish, and she
is not permitted to quench her
thirst.
Poisonous snakes are so numer-
Gus in Venezuela that snake bite is
almost as common there as in India.
But there are fewer fatalies, for the
natives have discovered that a
plant known as the ocumilio, when
powdered and applied to the wound,
results in a cure in almost every
case.
Three cats OF species said to be
unknown were discovered recently
in the spire of church at Brighton,
Mass. The cats are covered with
a coat of long shaggy fur. Their
teeth are long and are almost like
tusks. On the nose of each is
large tuft of hair resembling a tusk.
They are very agile, and spring
from rafter to rafter with the ease of
a squirrel.
The Emperor Duc-Tu of Cochin
China protects his treasures by
placing them in followed trunks of
trees, which float about a huge
tank situated in the center of the
royal palace. There are twenty
crocodiles in the tank as well.
When he wishes to draw upon this
bank all the reptiles are killed, but
this cannot take place without the
joint consent of the Emperor and
his Minister of Finance.
Trousers appear to have been in
troduced into Rome at a compare
lively late period and as part of
the military uniform. They are
worn by Roman soldiers represent
ed on Trajan's column, as well as
by barbarians. The Greeks have
never adopted them. With their
instructive sense of beauty they had
recognized that these are the only
garments that cannot possibly be