The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-09-29
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Insurance against non-employmen
is an accomplished fact in Cologne
Workingmen who have resided two
years in that city and are over 1S years
of age can join the society. The dues
are cents per week. If no employ
ment can be procured for a member
during the dull season, so cents per day
is paid to him if married, SO cents il
single. The city has started a guar
anty fund for the society with $4,000 to
which $4,000 has been added by sub
scriptions among employers. The So
ciety hopes to enroll enough members
to meet all liabilities likely to occur.
With the decline of the grape crop in
France, increased attention has been
paid to the cultivation of apples and
the production of cider, which has, in
a measure, superseded wine as the ma
tional drink. Official statistics just
| published show that there were 67S,-
100000 gallons of cider produced in
France in 1895, being an increase OF
1877 100000 gallons over the preceding
year.
Among the lower classes in Tene-
rife the woman is very badly treated.
the husband, brother, or even son is
a species of petty tyrant, and ninety
nine times in hundred when on his
way to the town in company with his
wife and his donkey, he rides the dom
key and she carries the burden on her
head. A great weight is often so sup
ported.
The city of Paris has just voted the
sum of S2,000,000 for the establishment
OF homes in Algeria, Tunis and Corsica
for the consumptive patients of the
metropolitan hospitals. The homes are
to be arranged in accordance with the
new theories concerning the necessity
OF isolating patients in the last stages
or the malady from those who are not
altogether beyond the hope of recovery.
According to reports from st. Peters
burg, the relations between Russia and
Japan in connection with Corea are
more strained now than at any time
since Japan's treaty with China. 1t is
added that a peremptory demand has
been addressed by the Cars govern
ment to Tokyo, insisting on the imme-
date withdrawal of Japan from the
Corean peninsula.
DR.. Hayes C. French, San Francisco
physician who has recently become an
evangelist, has adopted unique cos
tune for the pulpit. "All my preach
ing he says lis done in knickerbock-
ers and sweater. This is the uniform
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Cycling Club. The triangle on the
breast means spirit, body and mind,
the emblems of infinitude'
DR.. John Wesley Gadsen, who has
just died in Philadelphia, was known
as one of the most skillful veterinary
surgeons in the United States. He
proved that pleuro-pneumonia was
contagious. He was appointed veterin-
airy surgeon by the Department of Ag-
riculture and was an examiner in the
Veterinary College in Montreal for sew
eral years.
There is story of Lord Russell adj
dressing a Scotch constituency with a |
Scotch accent so badly simulated that
the audience hooted him Whereupon
he pulled out from under his topcoat a |
portly bottle and said: Il may not be i
able to catch your dialect, but | never |
drink anything but Scotch whisky.
This caught the crowd and carried the
orator through at the polls
Mrs. Ellen Wayles Harrison. widow |
of William Byrd Harrison of Upper
Brandon, VT, died on recent date at |
the home of Mr.. Alexander Randall in /!
Baltimore. Mrs. Harrison was the
daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson
Randolph of Edge Hall, Albemarle Co.
va, and was the Oldest living descend I
ant of Thomas Jefferson
Two successive attempts have been
made at Sofia to blow up with dyna-
mite the tomb of M. Stambuloff. the
one-time premier, regent and dictator |
OF Bulgaria. Although all the marble |
work has been demolished and the |
cross at the head of the grave shattered /
to pieces, yet the coffin itself remains
uninjured.
The spectators who for several years
have been buying up and draining the /
small lakes of Iowa are in hard luck. i
The heavy rains have flooded their pos
sessions, and the lakes are again doing
business at the old stand, with more
water than in many years before the
droughts came on.
DR.. Carl Peters, the explorer, is said
to have left Germany for good and to
have left directions to have all his af-