The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-01-18

task involves the raising Of 100000 or
81 zoe. 600
The Queen possesses two OF the old
est watches in the world. Roth have
silver dials, and are about the size OF
half-crown. One is blind mans
watch and the other repeater.
The French Chamber has passed a
bill authorizing n lottery OF 5000 600
francs for the relief OF the distress In
the departments which have suffered
from the recent floods.
Summer fogs are said to be great
purifiers of the atmosphere. There is a
belief that smoke may he turned into
a hygienic ally. and be made to help
to preserve the public health.
He smiled. did Richard Croker.
As he wiped his heated brow.
And said: Il guess that walesy
Would be glad to know me now. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Up the shannon and ether rivers a
number of wheels are set up TN the
middle OF the stream. which. as they
turn round. catch up the fish and cast
them into troughs by the river banks.
Russia has the largest military ex-
penses. f5S.00O.0 900: Britain follows
next, with fSS.OO0 600: France. with
$50 900. 600; Germany. with f26 coo 600:
Austria, f1S0O0.000: Italy. $4,000. goo
Japanese postmen whose routes carry
them into the country use bicycles.
Their wheels are made by local manu-
facturers, who have appropriated i'm
provements from both British AID
American patents.
In return for an extension of their
present franchise the street railway
companies of Cleveland, Ohio. offer to
sell six tickets for % cents. issue uni
versal transfers and pay a big percent
age of their gross receipts into the
City Treasury
The census of the principal cities of
the Japanese empire at the end of last
year was as follows: Tokyo. Sos. 07O:
Osaka. 5O5,657 Kyoto. S42. 724: Kobe.
1906; Yokohama. 179. SOS: Nagoya,
2S5. 7O6; Hiroshima. 1O1.09i; Nagasaki.
1906.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The iron
trade is about to unite in the erection |
of statue of Tubal Cain in this re- |
gion, The ironmasters have taken up |
the matter, and it is proposed that |
be asked for the purpose |
from all the great iron producers of the |
state, and perhaps others.
The two youngest children of the
N,.,1I
of their births on the
Nth of next March One is but years
If age and the other s. Eugene Field
used TO say that this was a piece of
TO save the expense of two
parties.
Ferd. Leimer. a sculptor of Washing
on, is to make bust in bronze of
President Mckinley The first cast
will go to the White House. the next
o General Alger, the third to the city
ouncil of Canton, O.. and the fourth
o the state house at Columbus, o.
Royal wedding-eakes are never sent
nut until they matured at least six
months, The actual baking process
aSts from five to seven hours. So
reat is the demand for cake on the
ccasion of a Royal wedding that the
makers have always a stock of more
han 1000 pounds in the seasoning
DOM.
A Washington correspondent of the
Jew York World has secured statistics
[ the White House showing that 12I.- !
90 personal applicants for places have
allied on the President since March 4.
nd 1865. or one in eighty. have been
ewarded
Waterloo. Iowa. has a church for
which one huge glacial bowlder fur
lished practically all the material. I
he huge stone before being blasted
Tas twenty-eight feet high, thirty feet
vide and twenty feet thick 1t was
to weigh 5,125,OOO pounds.
One hundred and thirty-nine Con-
ederate soldiers. prisoners of war. lie
uried at Madison, Wis, and efforts
re being made. at the suggestion of j
he Union veterans, to have the Con-
ederate Veterans Association in
Washington erect a monument to their
memory.
Good authorities in Kansas now de-
lare that while the mortgage debt of
he State was between $500, 900, 900 and ,
3O0, OO0, 900 in 1890, it is not more than .
100000 now, and the farmers are
aging off that as fast as they can
o,lect on their crops.