Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-10
2 SOIR. Brussels.-During the last
year the Hotel DIES Monnaies ina

r SO1R, Brussels. During the last
year the Hotel DIES Monnaies ina
tional mint struck 14,915 900
- l-franc pieces, 100000 half
franc $50 centime) pieces, H.
404 600 pieces of rs centimes, and o.
issue of Belgian money has given q
solvent advantage of 13,640,613 francs to
government credits, distributed be-
tween the national sinking fund, and
a special reserve fund created in 1921.
The total amount Of the national sink
ing fund on January /, this year, was
100000 francs ($5,880,000). The
moneys, in the special reserve funds
total 136,65e,273 francs, so it can be
readily seen that government finances
are recovering a stable equilibrium.
For the Kongo, the Hotel DIES Mon
naies struck 1902, 500 pieces of 1-franc
and 100000 pieces of so centimes. At
the request Of the Polish government
our mint also is striking several million
silver pieces Of the value of five Slotys.
Requests Back
Vacation Pay In Latin.
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu.-All the
languages spoken in Hawaii proved in
sufficient for Lawrence Kaleiopu, for
mer employe of the waterworks depart
mert, who chose Latin to write to the
board of supervisors his repeated request
for S2625 in six weeks back vacation
pay, accumulated during the years 1925
and 1927. Refused his claim a year
ago, Kaleiopu now writes the following
letter:
"Ad Honores suas. Maiorem ct SUI
pervisores.
"Civitatis ct Comitatis Honoluluensis.
"Amici magni ct boni.
"Hance epistolam vobis scribe in re
compensationis mel, hebedomis sextiiis
Vacationis, quae vos me debetis.
"Mementole verbum Domini noStri
'Redde Caesari res Caesars ct Dec res
Del ergo meo redde guam meus est.
81 justitiam amatis, justitiam flatis.
"Gratia Domini Jesus Christi sit cum
vobis, nunc ct in bora mortis vestris,
Amen.
"Vale in amicitia sempiterna.
"Laurentius Kaleipuensis f1lius.
LAS repeated requests of the past,
written in the Kings English, have APP
parently fallen on deaf ears, the above,
couched in the language Of the Caesars,
may be productive of better results"
Always Conversation Topic.
Ell Nuevo Diario, Caracas.-There
WAS such an indifference (or perhaps
such a preference) to the recent cold
weather at the end and beginning of
the year, that it was scarcely COM
mented on, except for passing remarks
on the street corners. Now, however.
with the advent of the present intensely
hot period, hardly any other topic
monopolizes so much of conversation,
or occupies so much space in the papers.
And what pains us all the more is the
constant assurances of the statistic1Rns
that in no other year at this time did
the thermometer register temperature
of such suffocating proportions. From
the way these experts" consult the
thermometer, one would think that in
strument were responsible for the
weather, and that 1t had decided OF
its own volition to attain heights of
meteorological distinction never at
tanned before. We believe we would
not be so hot-or so cold-if we did not
consult the degree of our discomfort in
the thermometer, and measure our
Affections by the rise and fall Of the
mercury. We may as well endure the
hot spell uncomplainingly, as the only
remedy for it will be found in the per-
feet land Of the stars, and when Heaven
willis