The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-16


schools more time is devoted to French
than English.
Iron is the only metal which appear:
in more than one color. It is found
of every shade. from almost white as
silver 10 black as charcoal
The most powerful modern fleet that
has ever been seen ON the waters OF
the Baltic viii assemble there this
spring under the flag of Russia,
An enterprising young physician OF
Warsaw. H.. has built private tele-
phone line connecting his office with
the houses of all his country patients.
Governor Bushnell. of Ohio. has just
appointed Commission TO raise funds
with which 10 erect monument to
General Phil Fl. Sheridan at Somerset,
Ohio.
Coal constitutes one of the leading
mineral resources Of New South
Wales. the coal fields of which are
roughly estimated 10 contain 7S,19S,-
100000 tons of coal.
In e5 years the BaptistS of Boston
have increased in number 10 per cent.
the Methodists 107 per cent, the Epis-
copalians 122 per cent. and the Pres
byterians 27S per cent.
Boston seems to have forgotten for
the moment the Bacchante. and is now
trying TO find suitable name for the
female chimpanzee, which is the latest
addition at the Boston Zoo.
In Europe the number of inhabitants
to the square mile is 90; in Asia it is
As: in Africa it is 15l in America it is
81 in Oceanica and the polar regions
it is 8; in Australia only 1.
A citizen of Moscow. Mr.. Politsen.
has petitioned the municipal council
10 limit the charges of undertakers.
He says that decent funeral costs
$50. while the actual cost is only sic.
Mr.. Fred F. Hassam, the Boston an
tiquarian. has in his possession a bot
tie of the tea which on the night of
December 16. 1913, was emptied from
the British vessel by the Boston Tea
Party.
\ useful charity, called the London
Spectacle Mission, provides spectacles
for needlewomen and other deserving
persons dependent upon their eyesight
for living. Last year 726 applicants
were PROVIDED with spectacles.
People in Australia are great tea
drinkers. In New South Wales the
average annual consumption is over
eight pounds per head. Sugar is also
largely consumed, the annual quantity
per head being over nine pounds.
Queen Yictoria's book will be pub
lished in America by the Century Conn
pany. There will be 100 copies on Jap
anese paper at $50 and 500 on fine pa
per at SIS. Both editions are strictly
limited, and no more will be printed.
London has now got a penny-in-the
slot refreshment bar II is a temper
ance house. The customer holds his
glass under tap labeled with the name
of his particular vanity, and then drop
his penny in the slot with liquid re-
suits.
By the law coming into force this
year in Sweden, dwelling house must
not have more than five stories. An
attic containing a stove is reckoned
story. The height of the building must
not exceed the width Of the street by
more than five feet.
The Cambridge University prize for
the best English essay has been award
ed to student named Reddaway. The
subject of the essay is THE Monroe
Doctrine" and the Cambridge examin-
ers have declared that Mr.. Reddaway's
production is worthy of being pub
lished.
The United States sent 1O3, 900, 900
pounds of ham in Great Britain last
year Something over 300, 900. 900 pounds
Of American bacon took the same ref
erence, and as for United States lard.
Great Britain received 40 per cent. of
the total exports, which amounted 2OO,-
O0O, 900.
The people Of Norwich and MontvilIe.
Conn. are anxious to have their State
purchase big detached boulder. local
" known as Cheegan Rock, in MiIlyiIIe.
IL Is SAID 10 be one of the largest in
the country, and OF great interest to
biologists, it being about so feet long,
rs feet high and weighing, it is esti-
mated loo tons.
The Italian Government, having real
lied the impracticability Of raising from
the bottom Of Lake Nemi, near Rome,
the two huge ships which the Roman
Caesar Tiberius was wont to use as
floating palaces and which have been
lying submerged for nearly 1000 years,
is now considering a scheme recon-
mended by its archaeological and en-
gineering experts for the draining of
the lake in question until its waters
shall have been lowered sufficiently to
bring the ships to the surface. 1t is
estimated that the cost of such an oper-
alton as this would not exceed $50, 900.