The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-10-12
PERSONAL md PECULIAR.

A Vermont creamery makes 10000
pounds of butter daily.
Doing good is the only certainly hap
py action of mans life.-Sidney.
Chieago's new Public Library Build
ing, which cost 100000, is now open
to the public.
According to statistics there are now
in Italy between 200 and 800 people
whose age exceeds 100 years.
A special commission will meet in st.
Petersburg shortly to consider the in
PRODUCTION of compulsory education in
Russia.
The Government expects to4save 1885,
900 yearly by running its own heating
and lighting plant in the New York
post office.
Ohio authorities propose to save trav-
cling expenses of jailors and guards by
sending prisoners in steel cages per ex-
press to the penitntiary.
Boise City Idaho, is to pipe into its
houses warm water of 10 degrees tenn
perature from a subterranean lake 400
feet beneath the surface.
The remains of a Roman military
hospital and a number Of surgical in
struments have recently been found
near Zurich, in Switzerland.
The new Governor of Alaska was
once a homeless waif, picked up on the
streets of New York, who never knew
his parents or the name they gave him.
The longest stretch of straight rail-
road line in America is on the Lake
Shore Railway, beginning at a point
three miles west Of Toledo, o., and run
ming 80 miles without curve.
A novel idea in vacations has been
adopted in Boston. The firemen there
are allowed annual vacations, and the
Commissioners have decided to send
every horse owned by the department
out to country pasture two weeks every
year. A new era for horses is coming
fast.
Josephnes rouge box, Napoleon's
pocket knife and the map he used dur
ing the 1906 campaign in Prussia, to-
gether with wooden eagle whitfield
by Napoleon III, when he was prison
er at Ham, are among fle relics be-
Queathed by Baron LARRY to the Car
navalet Museum, in Paris.
North Carolina Is making n success
of the experiment of working convicts
on the public roads. Thus far 1t has
not been attended by complaints from
any quarter. The convicts are said to
be more easily managed than they were
while locked in close. narrow cells and
huddled in n mass that generated dis
ease
The indianapolis Journal describes
an interesting literary discovery recent
ly made by State Librarian Henry, viz,
a copy of Life Of Bonaparte," pub
lished at Salem, Ind, in 1918. The book
was doubtless the first literary work
published in Indiana, and in all proba-
bility it was the first life of Napoleon
published in the United States.
Miss Agnes Weston, known in Eng
land at "the mother of British blue
jackets" has done more for the up
lifting of the English sailor than any
other woman. She has established
many rests" and during the thirty
years of her labor has done much for
the cause of temperance among the
tars. Her temperance magazine, Ashore
Afloat, has met with f1attering success.
A relic just acquired by the Paris
Military Museum is the wood and iron
leg of General Daumesuil, who lost one
of his legs at Wagram and replaced it
with a contrivance of timber and iron
springs. When the General at a later
day was summoned to surrender a fort
near Paris, his reply was: Give me
back my leg and you can have Vim
cennes." The veteran survived until
1882.
The Paper Trade of New York says
that Philadelphia is one of the largest
centers for the manufacture of paper
boxes in this country. New York is the
only city which surpasses it in the
of factories, and the annual
value of the product turned out. There
are between 80 and 40 paper box fac
tories in Philadelphia, and it is esti-
mated that there is capital of about
81 100000 invested in them. For the
present year the output will reach an
aggregate value of about S2,500,000