The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-02
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Grand Opera House, Paris.
The robin and the wren are the only
birds than sing all the year
Holland is the only country in Eu-
rope that admits coffee free of duty.
The French National Library has "a
OOe books on the French Revolution.
| Petrarch Czarten died in 1924 at the
age of 1856 He left a son aged 81.
England had, in 1895, LII co-opera-
| tive societies, with 1,414,51S members,
In Australia the growing of wheat
on the share system is rapidly ex-
tending.
Liquified hydrogen is the most VIC
latile liquid. 1t boils at 211 degrees
below zero.
Haverhin, Mass, shipped 100000
cases of shoes in 1896, the highest
number on record.
There are 10000 workmen, exclusive
of engineers and officers, at work I2on
the great Trans-Siberian railway.
The first newspaper is Sid to have
been the Boston News Letter, first
issued in 1904. 1t was a half sheet,
12x1S inches.
The first visit of pestilential fever to
| America was in 1902. 1t was brought
from the West Indies to New York by
| trading vessels.
The first cotton mill in America was
established in Beverly, Mass, in 1887.
1t was designed TO manufacture cord
and bed ticking.
No man who is intoxicated, or
whose breath is even tainted with
strong drink, is allowed to take his
post on train on the Grand Trunk
Railway.
A strange custom prevails in Siam
| when a funeral is passing The female
observers take down their hair and
the men feel in their pockets for piece
of metal TO place between their teeth.
All Fools Day is two hundred years
old. Brady's Claws Calendaria, pub
| Iished in 1872, mentions that more than
a century previous the almanac desig
mated the first of April as "All Fools
Day"
Ex-President Bartlett, of yarmouth
College, says that Japan is filled from
end to end with all the apparatus of
the latest civilization, down TO the
electric car and the international OK
hibition.
The timber wealth of the United
States gives a yearly product of over
a billion dollars, or twice the value Of
all the mines put together gold, sill
yer, coal, iron, copper, zinc and all
the rest.
The Pope has signihed his intention
to contribute to a fund which is being
raised in England for the purpose CT
erecting a memorial church at Slough,
Bucks, in commemoration OF the con
version of King Ethelbert of England
| to Christianity.
The AUTHORIZATIONS of Gloucester,
England, are blamed for having caused
Al deaths. In the year 1887 the Board
of Guardians voted by a majority of
| to give up vaccination Nine years
later 2,096 persons were attacked 3y
smallpox, and of these 21.7 per cent
| died.
The Imperial Bank of Germany y.as
founded in 1876 It has PIG branch
offices. Last year it turned over $2S.-
SS4,6s4, O0O Since 1876 it has bought
500, 322 900 worth of gold. The pusi-
ness in buying exchange paper in 1895
amounted to 81 ,229, sos, 600 exclusive Of
| foreign exchange.
The ancient Egyptians, at their
grand festivals and parties of pleasure.
always had coffin placed on the table
at meals, containing mummy or a
skeleton of painted wood, which was
presented to each guest with this adj
monition: Look upon this and en-
| joy yourself; for such viii you become
when Invested of your mortal garb."
At Waterloo the musketTy fire of the
Foot Guards, armed with the old clum
sy Brown Bess, was so fatal that the
heads OF the charging French columns
melted away before it without advanc-
ing-just as they probably would have
done before machine-gun fire. At
Linkerman the Mine bullets are said
to have cut lanes in the dense masses
of the Russians
The Cuban instruction is costing the
! Spanish government $4,000, 900 month.
while it has collected from Cuba in all
last year only sS,OOO,OO0. Taking all
the expenses of the year into consider
alton, Spain is s94 ,0O0, 900 out Of poek-
Ct III nGA bOh1nE Will 1uDd- lie w
mand of Weyler on the rich Spanish
residents of Cuba for contributions
resulted in his getting only $4,000.
The glass industries of Germany en-
ploy $4,000 workers in 312 factories, Of
which 1S7 are in Prussia, 81 in Bavaria
and IS in the other states of the En-
pire. Coming down TO details, 207 fac
tories make bottles and hollow ware;
IS make table glass, with a yearly pro-
duction of 1,250,0OO square meters; IS
make crystal and half-crystal glass, Is
make mirrors, AZ make pressed glass,
and make optical glass.
The cost of maintaining the Federal.
State and municipal. governments in
the United States in 1893 was s915, g45,-
055. Among the disbursements were
the following: For charities, S146, $685.
! 671; for education, s145.5S3115; for
roads, bridges and sewers, sf2, 262, 900;
for postal service, see, 000, 900; for army
and militia, sS5, SOC, 900; for police, s24,-