The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-10-13
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Personal AND PECULIAR.
1t never makes meanness any whittier
to baptize and take it into the church.
RAMS Horn.
The biography of Lord Tennyson is
nearly completed, but it will not be
published yet awhile.
People who wore shoes in Italy dur
ing the fourteenth century had to pay
tax for the privilege.
A Matchmaking machine produces as
many nails in given time as were
formerly made by 1000 men.
The statue of Edgar Allan Poe, in
Bronx park, New York, will represent
the poet in chair, with raven at his
feet.
The largest man ever enlisted in the
British army was Lieutenant Suther-
land. His height was eight feet four
inches, and his weight 364 pounds.
In the funeral procession which fol
lowed the body of Linton, the late pro-
| fessional bicyclist, his bicycle, draped
in black, was led behind the hearse.
The oldest King in Europe is Chris
tian TX. of Denmark, who last April
entered upon the seventy-ninth year of
his age. He has worn the crown for
thirty-three years.
Coma, the birthplace OF Volta, the
eminent physicist, who gave birth TO
electric science by his invention OF the
voltaic battery, will celebrate the Tooth
anniversary of his invention in 1899.
The veterans of the Seventy-ninth
Regiment of Indiana have just decided
to erect a monument On the battlefield
of Chickamauga TO commemorate their
gallant service on that historic spot.
In Russia the forest area covers ~
per cent. of the whole surface; in Swe-
den 50 per cent; in Austria SO per
cent; in Germany 26 per cent; in
France 16 per cent; and in Great Brit
ain and Ireland only per cent.
The Queen OF England has never wit
messed a session of the House OF Com
mons. She is denied this privilege
because of the old constitutional be-
lief that the presence of the Sovereign
will be violation of the freedom and
| secrecy Of fhe debates
Henry NJ Stanley is quoted as say
| ing: when l was at Lake Victoria
/ airy there; now there are 10000 Christ
ians and 200 churches. The natives are
enthusiastic converts and spend their
last penny to acquire Bible
A doctor in the highlands OF Scot
land, whose patients are scattered over
wide district, takes carrier pigeons
with him on his rounds, and sends his
prescriptions by them TO the apothe-
| cary. He leaves pigeons, too, with dis
tant families. to be let loose when his
services are needed.
Probably the most unique ball in the
annals of Chicago will be held in that
city on October 81. 1t is to be given in
aid of the Cripples' Mutual Aid Asso-
citation of Illinois by the one-legged
and one-armed men OF the Windy
City" While the ball will probably
be a success. it will certainly be one
sided affair.
According to correspondent Of the
New York Times an unknown philan-
thropist established at the st. Louis
post office fund to furnish stamps for
letters inadvertently mailed without
postage. To all such letters a paster
was attached which requested the re-
ceiver to remit the amount OF postage
for the benefit of the fund.
Insects are considered by authorities
on the subject as undoubtedly posses
sing the senses of sight, touch, taste,
smell, and hearing; that of touch being
perhaps the only sense strictly com
parable with our own Evidence OF
other sense organs utterly unlike any
we have is not wanting. 4 marked
male japanese siIk-worm moth was
liberated one night mile and a half
from a Gagged female Of the species