The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-03-09

l heard two sweet things talking on
a car Il just love the Elks," said one
why? "Oh, they're such dears-deers
you know"
There's a bill in the Legislature which
seeks to declare that saloons shall be
allowed on the basis of only one to
every 1900 of population. This will
never do, you can't get 1900 people into
one saloon.
Too bad about the nitrate ship
stranding on Molokai; why can't a fer
tilizer cargo get wrecked on Lanai
they say nothing will grow there but
sand and law suits.
SSSN
A year or so ago one of the local
newspapers had something to the effect
that the literary department of Percy
Ponds dairy seemed to be in good
working order People thought it was
a joke at the time But l have learn
ed since that the suggestion of a lite
rary department is of something that
really exists and is in fact quite in
teresting and quite wonderful.
l was out at the dairy the other
day and was shown through the feed
ing sheds. While feeding, the cows
are kept in stanchions. over each
stanchion is written, in chalk, the name
of the COW which occupies it. asked
the foreman what that was for.
$50 each COW will know her own
stanchion and feeding place." he re-
piled.
"But how does that help any?" l
asked; COWS can't read"
You mean cows in general can't
read" he replied; but just watch our
cows"
Just at this point the cows were
brought in to the feeding yards, and
sure enough, every COW went right to
the stanchion bearing her name. Not
one of them made a mistake. 1t was
really wonderful. The Literary de-
partment of Ponds dairy is all right.
Incidentally also the milk and cream
department is, too.
SSSS
A A. Brown, the editor af the Red
Funnel magazine, who passed through
here yesterday with his wife and child,
on the Aorangi on his way to the Unit
ed States and England. told of a
curious experience to some friends
while here. He was in Brisbane a
couple of weeks ago. and went into the
dining room of a hotel with his wife,
and sat down. He was the only man
in the room at the time. In moment
another man came in, and a moment
later a third all strangers to each
g
the hotel stepped in and asked the head
waiter if Mr. Brown had come in. In
stantly each of the three men spoke up
and said yes" Investigation show
ed that each of the men was named
Brown, and that two of them were A.
A. Brown and the third one was A.
Brown.
l heard two young mothers compar-
ing notes of their precociOus little darl-
ings. "Evelyn's getting awful cute"
said one; "she asked me only the other
day what l was thinking about; the
child must have observed that 1 was
preoccupied." We'll, did you tell her?
asked her friend. "Why, of course
not" was the shocked reply, she's
much too young"
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An explanation offered by some Ha-
waiians for the many vessels going
ashore on Hawaiian reefs, notably the
latest mishap, that of the stranding of
the ship Loeb Carve on Kamalo reef
is that the world, as evidenced by the
earthquakes and other phenomena so
common nowadays, is undergoing great
changes and that one of these changes
is the shifting of the Hawaiian Islands
to the northward. They believe that
tremendous commissions are occurring
below seas on the ocean floor and these
islands, the tops of gigantic mountains
are, as a consequence, shifting toward
the north, upsetting the calculations
of navigators Incidentally some people
think that this winter has been the
coolest ever known to Hawaii and the
movement north may have something
do with that