The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-09-22

and Hong Kong.
About 1900 people came together at
the recent reunion of the Smith family
at .Peapack, n. ]. This was probably
only State convention. At any rate
a National convention of Smiths would
exceed in point of numbers the gigantic
Christian Endeayor convention.
Prince Max, the nephew of King
Albert of Saxony, who was recently
consecrated to the Roman Catholic
priesthood, after having officially re-
nounced his right to the succession as
Prince of the royal house, will begin
his ecclesiastical career in England.
The following are said by a Swiss
hunter to have been found near the
nest of an eagle he recently discovered
in the Alps: A hare, 81 chamois' feet,
pigeons feet, 80 pheasants' feet, IL
heads of fowls, Is heads of grouse,
and the remains of number of rabbits,
marmots and squirrels.
The Colorado State Board of Health
in its recent annual report holds it to
be duty to see that the indiscriminate
transportation of sick people is for
hidden. The board claims that variety
of diseases are propagated by the tray
cling of sick people from one place to
another.
After Lord Leighton's death his eX-
ecutors were ready to accept $4,000
for his house at Kensington and its
contents. If any one had purchased the
property he would have made won
derfully good bargain, for the recent
sale of the contents of the house real
lied more than e35,000 while the house
itself is worth e15,000
Anne Brown Adams, the eldest of
John Browns three daughters, is hay-
ing painful experience with poverty
in California. After her house burned
down some time since she was forced
too seek shelter in blacksmith shop.
She has six children and an invalid
husband.
Rifle bullets are now photographed
in their course by means of the cleo
trio spark. The camera is taken into
a dark room, which the bullet is caused
to traverse. AS it passes the camera
it is made to interrupt an electric cir
cult and produce spark, which illumi-
mates it for an instant, and enables the
impression to be taken.
The Japan Diet, according to the
Electrical Review, voted Sac, 200, 900 for
the construction of railroads, tele-
graphs and cables at its last session,
and $97 100000 for the construction and
purchase of war materials and ships.
Since Jnuary, 1895, s600,000,000 has
been invested by the japanese in banks,
railroads and other companies.
Lady doctors are strongly opposed in
Austria. The chief medical men of the
empire are going to petition Parliament
to forbid women to follow a calling
which entails far too great strain on
the feminine mind and body. The doc
tors point out that women are more
suited to the profession of chemist or
to agricultural and commercial pur-
The eldest son of Millais, who sue
ceeds to the baronetcy, seems to have
no especial talent except as one of the
A gray wolf was killed recently at
Cave Hills, Wyoming. The creature
is said to have measured feet inches
from the tip of the nose to the root
of the tail, and was "a inches high
From the point of the nose to the top
of the head was II inches, and the
hide and head bone weighed 20 pounds
One can scarcely take up a German
paper or magazine which does not have
| its special column or corner devoted
to chess and its interests. The children
are set to work on simple chess puz
zles in their papers, while the maya
zines for older people present puzzle:
which seem almost hopeless of solution
to an inexperienced player. There arr
| SHCoS CluDS, Cn6SS IOOUlS, Cn6SS DOCKS
and chess players without number.
suits.
A paper was recently read before the
Paris Academy of Sciences on 1.-THE
Relations Between the Expenditure Of
Energy of Muscle and the Amount OF
Shortening it Undergoes," by NJ. A.
Chauveau. The method of the respir-
atory exchanges was used in this as in
previous work on the same subject
For given amount of external work
done by the muscle the energy used W
is smaller as the muscle is nearer to
its maximum length.
The New York Press prints a list
of the nicknames of some of the Presi-
dents of the United States. Washing
ton was Father of His Country, .
American Fabius," ''The Cincinnatus
of the West, ''The Atlas of America, "
Lovely Georgius, . Flower of the For
est, ''Deliverer of America, Step
father of His Country" and 'SaYious
of His Country" Adams was the
Colossus of independence" Jefferson