The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-10-19
PERSONAL AID PECULIAR.

The Chinese laundrymen of Boston
have formed an organization for mu-
tual protection and for union prices. 4"
California is threatened with la
Dor famine. The fruit-growers are cry
ing for help at big wages and cannot
get it.
The Dean of Canterbury has given a
playmaker permission to dramatic his
Darkness and Dawn" in which Nero
is the principal figure.
All birds when perched on trees or
bushes serve as weathercocks, as they
invariably arrange themselves with
their heads to the wind.
By actual count 10000 people between
July l and August 2S left the Pacific
coast for the gold fields of Alaska and
the Klondike region.
Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, around
which there were weeks of furious
fighting in 1864, is now terraeed and is
covered with peach orchards.
The designation earwig is corrup-
ton of carving, the insect being so
styled because of the resemblance of its
hind wing to the human ear.
A French Physician who has been
| investigating the proper nutriment for
long-distance bicycle riding has con-
cluded that the ideal refreshment is
fruit and milk.
The United States Agricultural De-
partment proposes to experiment in
the arid regions of the West with bro
mis- inermis, a forage grass from the
Russian steppes.
| Pogue Bluffs, Me-, has citizen who
believes in the educational and mora
influence of the press. He has ordered
good newspaper sent at his expense
to each family in the town.
Belgian swfndlers have been pastine
their transparent paper over the post.
age stamps they put on letters. The
paper took the postmarks, leaving the
stamps beneath uncanceled.
Statistics of the French population
for 1895 show decrease of 1900. The
birth rate in France, which at the be-
ginning of the century was SO pei
thousand, has now decreased to %.
The Princess Louise is engaged in
sculpturing the figure of an angel with
outstretched wings, which is to BIZ
placed over the altar in the Prince
Henry of Battenberg Memorial Chape
at st. Mildred's.
Generally speaking, the slope of the
beds of rivers flowing in to the Missis-
sippi from the East is, on the average
about three inches per mile. Those en-.
tering it from the west have an average
descent of about six inches per mile
The average descent per mile of thC
Missouri after it leaves the mountains
! is reckoned about a foot; the De:
Moines, from its source to it's conjunc
ton with the Mississippi, about 73 in
ches. The entire length Of the Ohio
shows fall of even five inches. The
Mississippi, from the mouth of the
Ohio to the gulf, has fall of about
two and half inches.
/ According to the Chicago Times
Herald, Judge Snow, at Saginaw, Mich.
/ has ordered the receivers of the Union
/ Traction Company of that city to issue
labor tickets at nine for % cents, good
from $50 to o'clock and to $50
o'clock. Their sale will be limited tC
actual wage-earners receiving not more
4 than 81 per day, and the name of the
/ purchaser, his employer and the wages
( he receives will be written plainly on
/ the inside of the front cover School
I tickets at the same rate will be good
for school children only between the
! hours of 1880 and 4:30 o'clock. Ordi-
nary tickets are sold seven for % cents