The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
KING MAY VISIT CANADA
Some Time to Be Given the Project
Secresy About Dreadnaught---
Big Graft in Italy.

utcs at a height of from 500 to zoo feet
Witnessing every incident of the chase.
short time ago the fashionable
thing i'm Paris seemed to be TO commit
suici6e; but. fortunately the craze has
now blown over A commissary of 20.
lice recently received a letter from an
elderly man, begging him TO come
around and convey the remains of him
self and wife to the mortuary with as
little display as possible. The elderly
man explained that having lost all
his money in business and being tired
of life. he and his wife had decided to
so home, and. after stopping Zip all
the crevices i'm the doors and windows,
to turn on the gas and go to sleep for
ever
Immediately on receiving the letter
the commissarv sent a representative
to the address i'm question. The elderly
gentleman and his wife received him,
and admitted having written the letter,
and they admitted, also, having re
solved on suicide the night before.
Their plans, however, had been frus-
trated in a most commonplace manner.
AS arranged, they had plugged up the
doors and windows and composed
themselves for death, and then the
husband, on turning the gas-tap, was
disappointed to find that there was no
gas there. The fact was elected that
the gas bill having been unpaid, the
company had cut off the supply, there
by unwittingly saving two human
lives.
New Wrinkles in Food.
Extraordinary dishes figured, as is
the custom of such occasions, at the
annual banquet Of the French National
Naturalization society, which took
.place today at the buffet of the Care
de Lyon here. Rare animals, hailing
from the most remote lands, were
pressed into the service, together with
fruits and vegetables quite as exotic,
and the guests are said to have thor
.oughly enjoyed their curious meal In
deed, the head cook, who had devoted
a fortnight to preliminary experiment,
was warmly complimented at the close
of the banquet by members of the soci-
ETY. on the marvellous success that he
had achieved, and this fully rewarded
him for the skill and attention which
he had devoted to a by no means easy
task.
A new dish in Paris has been quite
the rage during the past week. 1t is
lie Bleriot au gratin,' a pastry in the
shape of an acroplane filled with
| forced meat.
Nobleman on Trial.
The Paris courts have been busy
with the trial of a French nobleman,
the Vicomte Emmanuel de Gosson de
Barln, whose history, as it came out
i'm the course of the proceedings, is
entertaining. The Vicomte Gosson de
Barlin comes of an old stock, which
traces its lineage back to the eleventh
century. The vicomte was accused of
the misrepresentation of funds of a
brewing establishment to the extent
of $4,000
The origin of the case reveals how
his noble family became very demo
cratic in its occupations His father
deprived of his hereditary estates, had
become commission agent at the
Central markets. His business having
failed, his only resource, it is alleged
was to become conjuror, The son
sought to embrace the judicial career
and obtained the post of notary's clerk
after which he qualified as a process
server, and secured the office of a
"hussier."
1t was as process-server that the
Brasserie de la Mouse called upor
him. The brewery had an account o.
SdGOOO with bankrupt. The VicomtC
de Gosson promised to collect tn,
debt. The company gladly advanced
him all the money that he required
He drew, it is argued, so frequently OF
the brewery that before they wert
aware of it the advances made to hin
amounted to $4,000. The vicomte hac
pursued the recovery of the fugitiv,
debt for seven years, and had insti
tuted lawsuits in Belgium and Switzer
land, which served as a pretext fol
drawing on the funds of the company
PEACE ADVOCATE DEAD.
VIENNA, Feb. 1O.-The well authen