The herald., 1898-07-17
NOTES OF THE DAY

dispatch 1t Is learned that no less than
1176 entered Honolulu as contract labor
ers in one day recently. Another batch
| is expected shortly. 1t would seem from
this that the contract labor law has been
quietly pigeonholed. Plantation man
ayers are under contract to import
certain percentage of white labor in pro-
portion to the number of coolies brought
| in but the contract Is violated in almost
every instance.
S. G. Thurlow Of Belfast, Me-. now near
ly 80 years old, has just received permis-
sion to remove from the custom house
there a desk which he bought and put
there for his personal use when he was
collector of the port thirty years ago. 1t
had got on the inventory of office furni
ture through some mistake, and when
his term expired he was not allowed to
remove it. Application after applica-
tion for permission to do so failed until
now. .,
! The Atlanta conference for the study of
"the negro problem" is this year to con-
! slider the efforts of the negroes them
selves to better their condition. Among
these efforts are the relief work by secret
societies, the work of charitable and
philanthropc associations and co-opera
tive businesses in which negroes engage
Some time also will be devoted to health
statistics and the various government
reports bearing upon the negro.
That the name Of the rose certainly
would not affect it's fragrance in Givens-
willie, Idaho, has been demonstrated by
the experience Of the three Misses Mush,
who went there from Centerville, Iowa,
to teach school. The first Miss Mush was
married at the end of her first term, and
her sister, who took her place, married in
the middle Of the following term. The
third sister finished out this term, and
then she, too, was Joined in the holy
bonds.
| Rev. Thomas Skinner Of Chester, Del,
while on a bicycle run. met some Of his
congregation crossing bridge over Ches-
tier creek. He dismounted and put in
some good words with them about the
virtue Of prompt payment Of a pastors
salary. He became eloquent and gestic-
lulating, and in q grand sweep of his
hand caught his thumb In his watch
chain and the next moment the watch
sailed over his shoulder into the creek.
The question Of distinguishing marks
lon ballots Is to be brought before the su-
arising in Wellesley, where two ballots
were rejected, one of which had ring
Instead of cross before the name, and
the other name written without cross,
and one ballot was counted on which the
mark was made with blue pencil. The
action decided the election of a member
of the board Of education.
Large portions of the old royal castle
-
it habitable. The emperor's desire is
Ito be able to offer comfortable abode
to his guests ON great festival occasions
who have previously been quartered in
various Berlin hotels at great expense to
the imperial exchequer Many hundreds
of thousands Of dollars have already been
Expended in altering and repairing the
old castle.
The railway from the Congo rivers
mouth to the Stanley pool, 24O miles
in length, has finally been completed
after eight years work, and a vast area
of the interior Of Africa has thus been
Iopened to modern methods of trade and
commerce. There are 10000 miles of
navigable waterway above Stanley pool,
and 2o,00o,000 people inhabit the terri
tory which may be thus reached.
Here's a full report of a case which
came up before the supreme court in.
New York the other day: "Your Honor
said the plaintiffs lawyer, we would like
a little more time. We are not quite
ready to try this case. My client is on
board the monitor Nahant." my map
is on the same boat" said the lawyer for
the defendant "and we also want a
little more time" Granted" said
ithe court.
Speaking of the Spanish girls, corre-
|spondent from abroad has said Of them:
Spanish girls are convent bred. Their
edpcation consists largely in acquiring
the art Of embroidery, which they learn
to perfection. Early marriages among
them are seldom happy, but divorce is
lunheard of. People unhappily married
simply separate and live out their lives
as best they can."
Somebody calling himself a traveller
writes to paper in Portland, Me-, pro-
testing against the. present diapidated
Icondition Of Henry w. Longfellow's
birthplace and recommending that the
lefty purchase it, repair it and make a
Longfellow's museum Of it. 1t is now a
tenement house, and bears tablet with
a vainglorious inscription saying that
In 1t Longfellow was born.
A shrew shopman on Broadway, New
York, has placed genuine thirteen-inch,
twelve-tnch and eight-inch shells. and
. six and one-pound shot in his big window.
The huge messengers of death and de-
lstruction draw crowds Of "rubbernecks"