The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-25

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Those who saw the incident describe
the little artists terror as pitiable. He
thanked his stars for lack of inches il
he never did before, for that was all that
saved him from real thrashing instead
of good shaking and tweaked ear
Instead of resenting the angry Irish
mans treatment, poor Harry, with pale
cheeks and chattering teeth, got away
as fast as his legs could carry him so
soon as he escaped the clutches of his
assailant. His discontinue was only
more complete than it was year ago,
when he tried to be funny at the ex-
pense Of America at banquet at the
Hotel MetropUle. St. Clair McKelway
took the little fellow in hand on that
occasion, and in one Of the wittlest
speeches ever made fairly skinned poor
Punch in the same sense that Mr..
MacNeIIl horSewhipped him last night
The skull of Sophocles is literally a
bone of contention over which archa
ologists are beginning to quarrel 1t is
the latest prize among the salvage from
antiquity brought to light by Hellenic
excavations. The finders declare that
they have positive proof that they un-
covered the Uranium Of the wlsest man
of the Greeks, and have agreed to sub
NIT the question to Professor VirchoW.
The Lancet manifests much interest in
the matter. 1t says no dramatic poet
ever lived who possessed faculties which
were so splendid in their proportion
and SO symmetrically balanced. 1t
asks "Will the Uranium just unearthed
of the writer of 'Antigpne illustrate, So
far as cranial structure can illustrate,
the symmetry of the mind whose cere-
bral substratum it enclosed or are we
to experience yet another disappoint-
ment in finding that genius of the most
perfect order can enshrine itself in a
comparatively narrow and poorly ad
justed tenement?
The principal interest in England in
the death of the Queens brotherin-
law, the Duke of SAKE Coburg G. tina,
lies in the fact that it compels the ex-
patriation Of the Duke of Edinburgh
and causes issuance of a mourning de-
cree in the Court journal, in which
her Majesty orders "ladies to wear
black dresses, white gloves, black or
white Shoes feathers and fans, pearls,
diamonds, or plain gold or silver orna-
ments; gentlemen to veal black court
dress, with black swords and buckles
The court will change the mourning on
ISeptember 9th Ladies TO wear black
dresses, with Colored ribbons, flowers,
feathers, and ornaments, or gray or
white dresses, with black ribbons,
flowers feathers, and ornaments gen
t!emen to continue same mourning.
On September 23rd the court will g
out of mourning"
| In the prevailing dullness high society
finds absorbing interest in the following
incident. The other day at Homburg
the Prince of Wales happened to call
on lady who was occupying villa.
He inquired if she was at home The
abigail who answered the door did not
recognize the visitor and said she
would GO and see. She shut the door
leaving the Prince outside. Finding
her mistress out, she returned and re-
ported the fact. The Prince retired.
When her mistress found who had
called and how he had been treated,
she was furious and dismissed the girl.
When the Prince heard this herequested
that the lady would take the girl back
and forget the circumstance, fer it had
merely amused him and the girl had
done no harm. OF course, bis wish
was obeyed.
The further advance in the bank
rate to 5 per cent, which was fore
Swallowed in these dispatches, is ex-
pected to check the flow of gold to
America, or at least compel the supply
to seek another source. The high rate
will have widespread effect on Eng
fish financial affairs, especially as the
autumn drain on The bank will soon SET
in, and probably keep the figure alb
normally high. America has effectu
ally shifted good proportion of hel
difficulties to English shoulders, and ii
is expected that other countries will
soon be compelled to assume part Of
the burden.
The critical time in the cholera
danger, according to last years expert
ence, has now been reached, and the
outlook is hopeful, The disease is
much more widespread now than just a
year ago, bot almost everywhere it i,
Thoroughly under control Hamburg
is exempt, and nowhere has the cpl
demc manifested the extreme viruence
of it last season. This seems strange
to the average mind in view OF recent
Experiments. Analysts have been tx,
amining the dust of the streets of Paris
and Naples. In the former city a
gramme of dust from one Of the prin.
cipal streets showed 10000 bacteria,
including baciIli of cholera, lyphus,
diptherla and eryspclas. In Naples a
5ramme of dust yielded as high as a
billion microbes, some of which, cult.
waited, produced tetanus, tuberculosis
and other diseases in animals. These
facts seem to prove that something
more than the presence # bacilll is
necessary to produce an epidemic.
| The result of the exhaustive invest