The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-21
ODD NEWS NOTES.
Interesting Tidbits Picked UP in All
Parts of the World.

Interesting Tidblts PICKED Up IN All
Parts of the World.
The Bible is being translated into the
Filipino dialects.
There seems to be a veritable craze
for some sort of physical culture In
New York this winter.
In 1885 only three bodies were dlspos-
ed of by the London Cremation Society.
In 1898 the number had risen to 24e.
Chicago is not finding Tascott as Oft
en- as formerly, but it is discovering
Mrs. Luetgert as often as once week.
The Duke of Edinburg has fleet OF
fifty silver ships, presented to MIN at
different times by admiring cities and
towns.
An autograph letter of the late Vice
President Hobart sold in London the
other day for trife over $6, American
money.
Henry w. Corbett, United States
Senator from Oregon, went to New
York in 1914 and worked in store for
$3.50 a week.
Potterymakers in Great Britain and
the United States Of America are draw
| ing up a price-list to govern prices in
| both countries.
| The Society OF German Composers
asserts that about $4,000 persons in
| Germany earn their living in connec-
/ ton with music.
The Queen and Princess Louise will
both have pictures done by their own
hands on exhibition at the London
benefit war fund.
| The African Methodist Episcopal
church will endeavor to raise $600,00
for its twentieth century thank offering
by January 1, 1901.
George Gould, who has the fox-hunt-
ing fever very badly, has just purchas-
ed outright one of the finest and largest
packs of fox hounds in England
A Vienna paper names nine centen-
arians all living in Austria The eldest
of these is Amelia Ringer, who is near
ly lis years of age and still reads with
out spectacles.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox thinks the sue
cessful man lis one who has made q
happy home for his wife and children
no matter what he has done in the way
of winning money or fame"
The medal awarded to DR.. Lewis
Swift of Mt. Low Observatory, Califor.
! MIA, for his discovery of an unexpected
comet last March, is the ninth which hi
has received for astronomical dis
covery.
There are five official reporters of tn,
House of Congress, and they draw
$4,000 year each, in addition to VIVA
they can make by reporting the pro
3 ceedings of House committee hearings
England's postmaster general, tn,
Duke of Norfolk, is SO years of age AM
has borne his title for forty wears
longer than any other Duke outside O
the royal family. His only son is bin,
and hopeless inbecile.
monument to the memory O
Father Ryan, the poet-priest an
author Of "The Bivouac of the Dead" i
proposed by the Virginia Daughters o
the Confederacy, and substantial sur
has already been collected
]. E. r. Wirick, Jr., baby. living /
: Pike county, Missouri, has one aunt
, seven uncles. ten great-aunts and un
cles, eight great great-aunts. and I'm
cles, three great great great-aunts, fiv
great grandparents and three grand
parents.
The Slater-Armstrong memoria
building at Tuskegee, Ala, which wa
dedicated the other day, is chiefly
product Of student labor. The brick
and lumber used in. its constructio
o were all made by students under Pre-
lessor Booker T. Washington.