The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-06-21
PERSONAL AID PECULIAR.

Alabama has $3.50 negro schoo
teachers.
Germany boasts 1,oOO-year-old rose
tree.
Worlds sugar output is 100000 tom
a year.
At Birmingham jewelry employs a.,
600 people.
Parsonage property is not exempt
from tax in Oregon.
The pecan crop in Texas for 1897 was
over 100000 bushels.
Massachusetts textile mills produce
5000, 100000 worth of goods a year.
Paris and Marseilles are connected
by telegraph lines entirely under
ground.
1t has been proposed to equip Lon
don policemen with portable electric
batteries to feed electric lights on their
helmets
Miss Ellen Nussey, who acted as
bridesmaid for Charlotte Bronte. has
just died at Birstall, at the age of SO
years.
A mountain climbing cat has taken
its station on one of the Swiss noun
tains, and goes up 5000 yards with
tourists, to share their lunch at the
top.
The most extraordinary plant known
is the travelling plant" which has a
root formed of knots, by which it an
nually advances about an inch from
the place where it was first rooted.
Miss Fay Fuller, who has been ap-
pointed Harbor Mistress of Tacoma, is
the only woman in the world holding
such place. She became prominent in
the West a number of years ago by be-
ing the first woman to ascend Mount
Tacoma.
Longfellow's daughter has written to
the publishers of her fathers works to
explain that his pronunciation of the
word Hiawatha was "He-awa-tha, :"
with the accept on the iva" which has
the sound of in mar, not as in war,
as so many voice it.
In Louisville, KY, recently a clergy
man who was called upon by friend
to perform the ceremony at his we'd
ding refused because he was in love
with the girl himself The girl over
heard the statement, dismissed her be
trothed and married the parson.
The natives of 'Thrums" are turn
ing Mr.. Barrie's fame to commercial,
advantage. A lemonade manufacturer
in the Kirriemuir district bears a label
with a view of the famous "Window
in Thrums," and a special brand of
goods sold by a local shopkeeper has
his inscription printed on its wrapper:
IN. B-Every packet hears true pic
ture of the Window in Thrums and Mr..
Barrie's residence"
TIL death of Rev. Edward Bradley
in New York recently was remarkable
for the circumstance that he was a
curate in an Episcopal Church of which
his son, Rev. Edward A. Bradley, is
vicar. The curate was nearly seventy
nine years old, and did not enter the
ministry until he was fifty. For the
last six years he had been his sons
assistant at st. Agnes Chapel on Nine
ty-second street, a mission of Trinity
Church.
A discovery has just been made,
says the New York Tribune, among
the archives in the Vatican of col
lection of medical prescriptions for dis
eases of the eye in the handwriting of
Michael Angelo. 1t may be recalled
that this famous artist was so much
troubled with his eyes during the
closing years of his life that he was
almost blind when he died, and he
seems to have made a record in his
own handwriting of all the remedies
that were described for him.
William c. Todd, of Atkinson, N. H.
has endowed the Boston Public Libra
~ with $4,000 year for the purchase
of newspapers. Mr. Todd says he is
Impressed with the increasing impor-
lance and influence of newspapers and
the great demand for them by al
classes of the community" He give:
the money on the simple condition
that the whole annual interest on $780,
600 be expended for newspaper sub
scriptions. The choice of the publica
tions is left entirely to the library au
thorities.