The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-07-19

broke no less than twenty.eIeht
worlds records. The attendance upon
professional bicycle races in "our east
ern States' continues to be very large.
Those who are yet dissatisfied with
the disposition Of the Annexation oues-
ton Will, considering their peculiar.
tiles, get more solace by leaving the
case with Harper's Weekly instead OF
having 1t placed on the calendar of
the Supreme Court of the United
States.
II was considered that the success of
Admiral Dewey was due in a measure
to the fact that there were no "strings''
In MS neigpborhood Now the cord
age trust complains that the hero has
locked up 15C 100000 pounds of Ma.
Mia Irvine that Is required for the
binding OF the American wheat crop.
The Islands mus, by all means be
represented In the ne.,t meeting of the
National Sharpshoote.. Association.
The sessions and the tourney are NOV,
being held at New York. The heat
scores reported were SO at the man
target. five shots, and 46 out of so "a
the shooting is done here. The Ho-
nolulu cracks consider this extremely
poor for pretentious shooting.
The Hilo Tribune is gleeful in one
column over its own viewpoint notion
that Spanish feet might assault Ho-
nolulu. In another spot in the same
publication Is bemoaned the fact that
Hilo cannot have measles brought by
Boys In Blue. One OF the men here re-
Gently with a United States transports
remarked that the major of his bat.
talon was too slow to hang crepe.
Come to look 1t up, base ball even
In the old ORIGINAL home Of the "fan"
and the "rooter'' Is not what IL used
to be: Chicago vs.. Cleveland, at Chi
cago, attendance, 1900: New York VS..
Boston, at New York, attendance,
1900; Baltimore VS.. Philadelphia, at
Baltimore. attendance, 1925; Washing
ton VS.. Brooklyn, at Washington, at
tendance, 800; Pittsburg VS.. st. Louis,
at Pittsburg. attendance, LOO. This
Is the big league. and for gate" is
simply nothing.
The veteran Senator George f. Hoar
voted for the Annexation resolution.
His attitude has been doubtful. When
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| Washington in December last he was
requested to call upon Senator Hoar.
The interview consisted of questions
by the Senator and replies by Gen.
Hartwell. The carefully guarded re-
port OF this meeting as given by the
Honolulu citizen, was published in this
paper. Gen. Hartwell was not sure of
the particular vote, but hoped for the
best.
| Cornell won the big boat race over
Yale and Harvard. Courtney was the
trainer OF the victorious crew. Yale,
handled by the veteran Cook, was sec
ond, and Harvard, coached by Mr.. Leh-
mann, who came over from England
to do the work in the interest of the
sport, had to be content with third
place. Harvard had the Henley stroke
and Yale and Cornell adaptations of
1t. Cornell's time for the four miles
was 90 minutes, As seconds. There was
o large crowd at New London, but
there was not the national or inter-
national interest Of former years In the
event.
Professor Koch has returned to Ber-
lin from East Africa to report upon
his studies into the nature and origin
Of malaria. He says that wherever
there are mosquitoes there Is malaria
and that where there are no mosquitoes
there is no malaria. Professor Koch
makes the statement absolutely, with
out qualification, that mosquitoes carry
or inoculate malaria. The eminent
bacteriologist advocates reform in the
treatment of malaria by the use Of quiz
nine. He says that Quinine taken at
the proper juncture stops malarial
fever. not by killing the germs, but by
arresting their development. Profess
scr Kochs point in these premises is
that there Is not at this time rational,
scientific employment OF quinine.