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Grade railway crossing slaughter* are becoming frightfully frequent and •deadly. The London Times recently an* ttounced that Mr. Cleveland was^ \hunt ing in the Adirondacks of Mexico.\ In Baltimore, Md., about seventy-four per cent, of the home families hire and twenty-six per cent, own their own homes. Tho Mail and Express avers that stone •walls of oasto are easily overturned by o judicious use of cash, quicker, perhaps, •in New York than in any other city. As might be expected, cxelaims the Detroit Free Press, tho marriage - statis tics of 1892 show a veritable boom in tho matrimonial market. It was leap yenr. Miss Clara Barton, of the Bed Cross Association, thinks there is too much suffering in this country now to think of moving in behalf of Russian famine suf ferers a»»ain. Sweden is tho only European country in which there are as many as ten miles o'. railroad to each 10,000 inhabitants, -while in this country there are only two Sta'cs in which there is less than that .proportion. T.:e Germans indignantly deny that their colonization efforts in the Cameroon country hive coma to naught. Thoy point with pride to the fact that one of their army officers there recently shot a jjunlla which measured seventy inches around the chest Walter Be3ant has been making some rnciace 'ioly estimates of tho number of 41 'itnors who fail, and he finds that out •a. 3.VJ0 who try 3260 are completely •\ iisnu .l,''120 make a very little money, scvi'ii y Jo pretty well, and fifty get a tubslaut nl income. Tiic lands owned in tho Congo Terri tory, Africa, by the Belgian Congo Corn- met c .al and Industrial Company stand in tnc CDrapany 's books at four conts per acre. Actual sales have been effected at this price, hence its adoption for ac count-It ecpin ..--purposes. James Smith, Jr., the Democratic Senator-elect from Now Jersoy, will not •be the first Smith in the United States Sennte. Daniel Smith, Tonucssco; Israel Smith, Vermont; John Smith, Ohio; John Smith, Now York; Nathan Smith, Trunan Smith and Perry Smith, all from Connecticut—hero nre a few of tho -Senators Smitu. Tho monument which the ex-Con- 'fedcrntcs will erect in Richmond, Va., to tho memory of Jefferson Davis will not stand whero his remains will be laid. The grave is to bo in a cemetery near •the James River, in the northwestern part of the cily. Tho monument will •be placed in Monroe Park, a quarter ot « milo from this spot. Last year's salo of oggs alone, accord ing to statistics, reached tho onorinous sum of $200,000,000, and livo and dressed poultry 3i00,000,000,or the total ;for both of §30J,000,000 for the Unitod •States. It seems hardly possible, com- .ments the New York Independent, that such figures would be correct, yet tho Department of Agricultural statistics publish it in their roports. Small things appear weak, yet thoy confound tha mighty. Pcrbnps tho best guaranteo that \Russia will not bo in a hurry to violate the peace of Europe, says tho Now York Commercial Advertiser, i3 tho menacing attitude of her Chincso neighbors in Asin. Tho Chineso havo become aroused to tbe danger of permitting the Russians to make any further progress in tho Pamir region, and tho Chincso Minister at St. Petersburg has been Insttueted to inform tho Russian Government that his Government will consider any encroach ment on tho AUchur Pjmir a very seri ous matter. Tho coldest winter tho world over Icnow, according to several chroniclers, occurred during tho year 1433. Too season was not only intensely cold, but Jastcd unusually long. In a largo por tion of Middle and Western Germany the frost was so severe during tho month of May that skators braved tho ice with out the least danger, and May 12 sleighs were generally used. On St. John's Day, June 24, tho windows were frozen and not a vestigo of vegetation was to be seen anywhere. Spring was ushered in with tho last day of June. ' A matter of mu:h scientific interest ! and great business importance has jui developed in an Ohio town. A few years | ago, in tho village of Findlay, prospec tors for oil struck aa enormous reservoir of natural gas. Tho municipality promptly clutched the ric*.i outpuc and soon tho village -was alivo with manu facturing industries which utilized tho gas. Now tho natural reservoir has ap parently reached a point near exhaustion, tbe town trustees have notified the fac tories that tho gas supply will soon bo •cut off, and a maze of lawsuits is threat ened. This is tho commercial sido of tho cose. Scientifically, the exhaustion of tho gas raservoir means nothing more than tho clearing out of what is called a - \pocket\ by gold and «ilvcr miners. U'Therc if » \limit even to the riches of na- THE COS T OF THE CROWN. Why sboulds't thou think, O hearty That life is peace? Thou cans't not live apart In calm release. From all tha cara# o* life; Fros» burdens, toil and stxlrs, From hopes that die as grass, From plans that break as glass, From friends who fall, and foci Wh o live to work the woes Without surcease. Thou shouldn't now know, O heart, That life is war; Each day brings some fresh smart, Some new-flxeJ sear; That he who seeks life's crown Must often be cast down, Must oft' arise and fight Still on from morn to-night. And heeding not tbe pain, Must fight through death to gain His sainthood's star. Thou shouldn't not quail, O heart, Till life is done; Crowns are not given at start— Thoy must be won! Ba bravo and let thy sword Be forg'd ot God's true word. Thy shield be faithfulness, Thy breastplate righteousness; So shalt thou fight and win, As thy soul enters in. Its crown: \Well done!\ Sam W . Small, in Atlanta Constitution MISS GRACIE, A SKATI.NG STOUT. E WOLFE wheels quickly on his skates and digs his heels into tho ice, and stops directly before her. \See here, Miss Gracie—\ he be gins. \I told you never to call me that,\ ihe bicaks in, \I bate it!\ \It's very pretty,'' he says. \Ye? ho goes on, \it is a very pretty name— like its owner.\ \That remarks the girl, \is in de cidedly bad taste; and if you have noth ing more to say I will go on.\ \[ have a great deal more to say. In the first place, I do not think you have treated me very well.\ Tho girl pouts. \Oh that's all, is it?\ she says with indifference. \What have I done?\ \What havo you done?\ he repeats. '•You have done a great deal, and I mould like to know very much what you meun by it, and if I really must un derstand you wish to keep me away from you always and at a distance.\ \Yes puts in the girl, moviog back ward with a slow, graceful motion. He follows, keeping very near hor. \You mean it, then! ' \No; go on find add to tho awful sharges.\ \Now Miss Gracie—\ \If you aru going to call mo that I shall have nothing whatever to say to f ou.\ Tbo truth of the whole matter is that De Wolfe is young and very much in love, and has been snubbed. And being a youth who takes a great deal for granted, and who knows very little of girls, he finds himself at his wit's end, and makes up his mind to stop that sort of thing if Qe can. Tho air is cold and crisp, and it is an tdeal day for skating. There is a thin mantlo of snow on the ground which sparkles in the sunlight, and the pond is covered, and the ring of skates on the ice and the cries of the people mingle in the air and come to De Wolfe in n con fused murmur as he stands somewhat apart with the girl. There are a great many people out this afternoon—small boys, youths in their teens, men who remember tho sport of their younger days and are eager to renew it; girls who havo the night bo- fore danced until one o'clock, and who have exchanged tho heat of the ball room for the winter nir which gives them so delightful a crimson glow. As it grows late, however, the crowds thins, and it is not long before the pond is practically deserted, leaving very few people, -with tho exception of Alice Bently's skating-party. Alice Bently is a very clever girl, yet, .iko most clover people, she sometimes makes mistakes. And this skating party is much of n mistake, for Alice Bently sees a great deal moro of n new mau from England than she does of her younger sister Grace, and this young woman improves her time by making young Do Wolfe's life miserable, and refusing, very pointedly, to skate with him. Young De Wolfo moves away to tho other shore, and it is not until it grows darker and Grace Bently begins to zig zag up and down the pond, gradually drawing nearer to him, that ho deigns to speak to her. It is then that becomes up to her and tells her that she has not been at all nice. \This sort of thing has gone far enough,\ be declares. \What do you mean?\ and she laughs. \I racau just this,\ ho says, looking doggedly at the ice and digging tbe point of his skate into tho surfaco nerv ously. \If you want me to go away and stay uway, why don't you say so? If you don't want a fellow around, and don't want to skate with him or dance with him, say so; and frankly, now, don't you think you have been rather rough on meS\ She does not speak, and he goes on: \I have got something to say to you, and perhaps you think it a very funny time for mo to say it, and perhaps you will try to got away; but I mean to let you know about it now and end all this un certainty. I daresay I am not putting it well at all, but that is of no consequence. I am very well aware that I never do put things well, but what I am going to tell you means a great deal to me, and I hope you will listen to me and tako mo seri ously. If a man, or a woman for that matter, had told me a year ago that 1 was to be in love before another year had passed, I would havo laughed and snapped my lingers and said it was uou- sense. But I find I am very much in love now, and I am going to tell you about tho girl. She is a very pretty girl, but tbat is not why I love hor. Sho is not a doll, but her face is expressive, and n fascinating study in all its chauges, and her complexion is pure ond clear without a waxy whiteness, but with a pink flush or an olivo color; not dark, yet just enough to give her a look not' at all commcspiace. And her hair it light and wavy, like fine-spun gold, and her eyes are gray and tranquil, and some- times look at me with an expression that makes me wonder'a great deal why the should look at me 10. But why are you looking.down?\ The girl raises her eyes to his bravely, and thero is a chal lenge in them. \I suppose, now that I have told you all this.\ he continues, \I should tell you who she is, but I think I scarcely dare. It means so much to me, and she may think so little ~ of it, and laugh in my face. She laughs at mo a great deal and is very tantalizing, and I do not think she loves me, for if sho did she would not act that way; but I am go ing to ask her and find out for myself.\ Grace Bently is uneasy now, and look ing about for some way to escape, but every one is far away at the other end of the pond. \No ho says, noticing this. \I think you cannot get away, and you must hear tho rest. I could toll ycu a great many moro thinps about her—how good and kind-hearted sho is in spito of her thoughtlessness; but I have already said a groat deal, and I roally think I ought to let you know why I am telling it to you.\ \How do you know the girl is so good and kind?\ interrupted Graco Bently, quickly. \She may be selfish and in sincere, and think only of (htngs as re lated to her; and you may misunder stand her and not know so much about her as you think.\ \I know a great deal about you— there, I have said it,\ returns De Wolfe. \I daro say you knew what I meant all the time. I do not see how you could help it. I should have put it better, perhaps, but I hopo you will not think thul I am apologizing for speaking to you in this way, for I am not. And I am not going to urgo anything on you, and all that, but I have put it all befoie you clearly, if I may say it, and I think it is due to mo that you be equallv frauk.\ The girl hesitates a moment and ap pears to be thinking. • \I am very sorry you havo told mc this,\ she says at length. \It is not be cause I do not love you, neither is it be- causo I Ho lovo you. I do not know what love is. I liko you very much, but, as it seems to mc, I could like a great many other men in tho same way I liko you, and that, I think, i3 not love; and if it is love, it is not the right kind of love. If I were to laugh at you—\ \Don't you think wo had better bo starting?\ comes a voice just then. Both of them look around, and there is Alice Bently. Sho has been gliding noiselessly toward them, and smiles meaningly. \It 13 getting very dark—rather too dark for skating,\ she adds. Do Wolle is very much put out, and remarks that it is not very dark, and it is evtr-so-much more fun to sknto in the dark, anyhow. But Graco Bently ap pears rather relieved at tho interruption, and starts off quickly toward tho other side of tho pond by hcrsolf, leaving D3 Wolfe nothing to do but to offer to skate over with that clever person who causod the interruption and broke off Grace Bently's words at a very interesting point. When they come up with tho rest of tho party thoy find that preparations have been going on rapidly for depart ure. The party is largo and there is izreat confusion in taking off skates and starting, and so thoy aro well on their woy home, and Alico Bently is deep in conversation with a very fascinating man, when it is learned that Grace Bently is missing. \I'll go back lor her,\ offors Do Wolfo readily in the most innocoat way, ho having known she was not with them from tho start. IIo wants to got far enough away so it will bo a very long time before they catch up again. Ho turns back and tho poople begin to straggle on. Alico Bently makes a pre- tenso of waiting for a few moments. \Of course I cannot go and leave Grace,\ sho protests. But at tho suggestion of tho man with her, who doo3 not care to have a younger sister hanging around, sho strolls alncg the snow trodden path acioss tho fields. When DoWolfe reac' 13 tho pond it is quite deserted, and oniy a stray skater uere and there reminds him of the after noon's sport. Ho scarcoly caros to call out for Grace, so ho puts on his skates to search tho pond. He fails to find hor after circling about quickly, and ho calls her name in a low tone. Perhaps sho is with the party now; sho might have taken a short cut, for thero wa3 no other place ior her to go. • Was thero no other place? DoWolfe's heart leaps into his throat. The outlet. Could sho have gono there ? He starts off quickly. Tho ice in tho river near by is cracking, and now and then a loud roport like tho booming of a cannou is heard as it settles. In the distance De Wolfe heais the whistlo of a locomotive, and to his morbid fancy the barking of a stray dog makes an impression on his mind. The rails on the track near at hand begin to sing and hum, and pres ently a train rounds the curve and passes by. A stream ot sparks flie3 upward, the steam hisses from beneath, and in a cloud of smoke tho train disappears. Lights twinkle in tho houses near the highway over the fields. The clouds aro very dark above, and a wind from the west is blowing dismally. Near the road some one is whistling for a dog. De Wolfe finds a small boy near tho outlet. \ I hain't seen no gurl,\ ho replies in answer to the young man's anxious questions. \Leastways not raound here. Tbo ice in there's thin though. Youse better look aout.\ Then ho gains tho outlet. How swiftly he goes along the smooth ice i How the sound of his skates rings out in the uight airl How tho wind whistles by him as ho glides onward as if 1 he had tho wings of a bird! Hnrk! What is that? He starts sud denly. Docs be not hear a cry? Ho digs a bee! into the ice quickly. An instant and be is motionless, listening with bent head, and panting. Uo hears the cry again. It is Grace's voieo, but how weak and helpless it sounds 1 \lam coming!\ .ho shouts. \Hold on!\ An instant more and he is beside her. Ho expects to sco her in the water hang ing on the edge of broken ice; ho expects to find her almost at the point of letting go and sinking; but what ho sees is a sorry heap on the surtace, and a dismal, small voice calls out to him. Ho is bo- sido her and bends over her. Ho is so very glad to find her that for a moment ho cannot say anything. Ho wonders what has happened. Ho is ready to see her start up in the old cold way, but she does nothing ot the sort. - \Ob I am 10 very glad you have COBM !\ ha bean a frightened voice aaj. There is a pathetic little quiver in the tono that touches him, for it is so differ ent from the confident, assured tono in which she usually addresses him. \I have sprained my ankle—I don't know exactly how, but I fell and it was under mc, and it hurts awfully.\ Sho stops • moment and something that sounds very much like a sob comes from the heap on tho ice. \I could not movo at all. I tried to crawl to the shore, but every timo I moved it hurt so. When you went off with Alico I thought I would have one moro good skato before I went home, and tho ice was so smooth in here and it was away from every one and I wanted to think—I don't know how far I got away from the pond—I think 1 must have fainted for a moment. And it seemed ever so long before you came.\ (It was scarcely ton minutes in reality.) \And I called and called, and no one heard me, and what shall I do?\ Young De Wolfe has not played foot ball on tho 'varsity eleven for nothing, and ho knows all about sprains. He is all sympathy, and looks upon the matter in a business-like way. \You must got up and use a stick or something, and lean on my arm,\ he says, briskly. Sly dog I Ho knows they will not get very far that way. He finds a stout stick quickly, and then ho helps her tenderly to an upright position. Tho face that ho faintly seos in tho darkness is pale, very pale, and tho eyes shine with pain. And when sho gets up and tries to let ever so littlo weight on the sprained ankle she crlos out sharply. \It must be moro serious than I sup posed,\ Do Wolfe remarks. \I shall got you over to tbo nearo3t house and make them take out their arnica and bandage up the injuted ankle,\ he con tinues briskly, \and then I will tele phone to town for a doctor and a car riage.\ She says nothing and her lips aro com* pressed tightly. Presontly with a cry of pain sho stops short. It is the man's face now that is pale. He draws a long breath and looks anxiously at her. \This will not do at all,\ ho says, seriously. And thou ho gathers hor up in his arms and, holding hor closely to him, walks carefully through tho trees into the field and toward a farm house a short distance uway. It is not far, but a great many things happen that she does not seem to mind and which make her forget all about tho pain in her ankle. No one knows, of course, what it was, but when the scaudnlizod sister arrives a half hour lator, sho finds Graco Bently installed in a huge oasy chair and Do Wolfe bustling around the room asking if ho can do \anything moro.\ \But when his oyc3 rest on tho palo, satisfied face of tho girl In tho cbair, and when ho sees tho glad light in hor eyes, ho realizes with much delight that Alico Bently has arrived altogether too late, and ho wondere what sho will say when sho knows all about it. And when ho thinks of what tho girl in tbo cbair has gono through, and what pain and suffering havo como to hor thnt night, he makes tho uso nf a right ho has just had given him, und whispors to hor when no ono is noar: '•Poor, dear Miss Gracie 1\—Frank Leslie's. What \Slur' is Doing for tho Fair. Many of tho smallor structuro3 would bo notablo for beauty and for sizo if thoy woro not hore mado pigmies by contigu ous grandeur. Liko tho larger buildings thoy are veneorod with \staff.\ Great is \staff!\ Without staff this froo hand skotch of what tho world might have in solid architecture, if it wero rich ouough, would not havo beon possible With start at his command, Nero could havo afforded to fiddle at a firo at least onco a year. Ono of tho wonders of staff as scon at Chicago is its color. Grayish whito is its natural tone, and tho basis of its success at Jackson Park; but it will take anv tint that ono chooses to apply, and maintaiu a liveliness akin to tho soft bloom of tbo human skin. Staff is an expedient borrowod from tho Latin countries, and much cultivated in South America. Any child skilled in tbe mech anism of a mud pio can mako it, after being provided with tbo gelatin molds and a water mixture of comcnt and plas ter. How tho workman appeared to oa- joy seizing handfuls of excelsior of fiber, dipping them in the mixturo and then sloshing tho fibrous mush over tho sur face of thu mold. Whon tho staff has hardened, the resultant cast is definite, light, and attractive. A workman may walk to his job with a square yard of the marblo palaco under ouch arm and a Corinthian capital in each hand. While it is a little green it may bo easily s.iwod and chiseled, and naiU arc used as in pine. Moreover rough joints are no ob jection, sinco a littlo wet plaster servos to weld the pieces into a flnishod sur face. In tho rough climate of Lake Michigan staff i3 expected to last about six years, which is tho avcrago lifo of tbe ablest English ministry. Great is staff!—Century. How tho Races Origiuatoil. M. Do Quatrofages, tho Fronch eth nologist, has made public his conclusions with regard to the origin and distribu tion ol tho human race. He says all mankind came from s central mass in Northern Asia, asd that there were three fundamental types—black, white and yellow. These threo types scattered over tho world and intermingled, form ing, in course of time, seventy-two dis tinct races of human beings, which i3 tho number of races classified by our best ethnologists in the tabulations brought down to tho year 1890. Tho learned De Quatrefa^es believes th»t tho Amer ican Indians came from \a blending of whito and yellow races with a local quaternary race.\ Say, M. De Quatre- lage3, where did that local qustomary race originate?—New York Journal. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Uso for the Shark's Ears. Sharks have lately been affording con* tributious to science. Tho biologists havo beon vivisecting them for the pur pose of finding out about tho functions of tho ear, which in fishes is made to somo extent on the same pattern as in man. Tho iact has been known for some time that the ear is not merely an organ of hearing. It has to do with the senso of equilibrium. Light has been thrown on this matter by removing portions of tho auditory apparatus of sharks, which are thus rendered unable to maintain their balance m tho water. The part on which this faculty seems to depend is tho \labyrinth and tho same effect is produced by cutting tho nerve* communicating with it.— Ne» Yotk Commercial Advertiser. TH I'll It DISCOVERY, RUBERSAND INDUSTRIES. Captain Cook. Discovered the Islands —A Nixed Population—Natives Becoming Kxtinct—King Kal akaua and His Successor. MERICANS, as a rule, havo vory crude ideas regard ing the Hawaiian, or Sandwich Isl ands, which formed tho constitutional monarchy which has just been over thrown. Striking features of life on the islands havo been made somewhat familiar through the writings of travel ers and through the great amount of matter printed in the newspapers at the time when King Knlakaua, late lament ed, visited this country in search of a loan for his bankrupt Treasury, and later when his Queen, Kapiolani, came here on the same errand. The Hawaiian Islands form a most in teresting country, however, in thomseives and in their history, especially to Amer icans; for Americans have led in their developments, havo for years controlled their wealth, and have had the strongest voice in their government. That hardy old mariner, Captain Ccok, happened to run across the Hawaiian Isluuds in 1770. He had quite a differ ent object in mind when he mado this discovery, but then the early discoverers all seemed to have a weakness for find ing something that they never thought of looking for. Captain Cook callod the islands tbe Sandwich Islands. His for so doing is not known, tho veteran conundrum \be- tho sand wich-is-there\ may bearing on it. However, thoy have re- of most men. reason unless cause o have some the Sandwich Islands nvined in the minds At the timo of reporting his discovery Captain Cook said he thought thero were as many as -400,000 natives there. Many believe tbat in another genera* tion or two the native stbek will become extinct. The natives are called K<iua- kas and are of a Malay-Polynesian race, much like the Maoris of New Zealand, and like them they nre dying out from tbe ravages of infectious diseases, and especially from driok, which, since tho lamonted King Kalakaua removed the tariff on it, has resulted in great pauper ism and mortality. Though these na tives have had the Soriptures among them for years, and bavo professed Christianity, a great many ot them still retain much of tho barbarism of their fathers. The royal family begins, as far as hold all of the chief executive and ju dicial offices. In 1SS9 a half-breed.' named Robert W. Wilcox, who had been educated at public expense in aa Italian military school, attempted a revolution with a handful of men. which aimed to do away with the Constitution x and restore the royal family to its old power. The white foreigners put down that revolution in threo hours, with a loss of three men among the revolution ists. Under favorable treaties with tho United , States and development of American money, tho production and commerce of the islands have become very extensive. The latest official fig- MIHTARY BARRACK?, HONOLULU. CHART SnOWINQ POSITION OF TTAWAUAN ISLANDS, 2100 JULES PROM SAN FRAN CISCO. Hawaii, tho main one of the group of twelve islands, is about 2100 miles west by south of San Francisco. Fast steam ship lines now run from Honolulu to San Francisco. The islands stretch out for a distance of 350 miles in the Pacific, but only oight of them nre inhabited. These have a total area of 6640 square miles, as follows: Hawaii, 4210 square miles; Maui, 760; Oahu, 600; Kuuai, 590; Molokai, 270; Ranai, 150; Nihau, 07: Kahoolawe, 63. Each of the islands used to have its own dusky king and bo a little world to itself. About tho year 1800, howover, there was an old chap struggling under the name of Kamehamcha (pronounced as spelled,') who, liko Alexander the Great, \sighed for more worlds to conquer.\ He made up his mind that be would conquer all tho other worlds ho knew about, the Hawaiian Islands, and this he proceeded to do with neatness and dis patch, und made himself King of them all. Ever sinco the monarchy has pre vailed, though the royal family has been in a very bad way from the time that American enterprise began to assort itself on the islands. There have been many revolutions, out the reigning family has stood against them, though its power has been taken away from time to time by tho granting to the people of such constitutional eights as the revolutionists demanded. The islands havo a very mixed popu lation, owing to the great demand for cheap labor that resulted from tho de velopment of the sugar industry. In tho aggregate thero are less than 100,000 people there, and the major portion of theso arc on tho big island of Hawaii. Tho increase in the past ton years has been about 15,000, the annual increase being about 1500. This increase has been very largely due to the excess of the immigration to these shores over tho emigration, and not to natural increase, which has been slow because of the small number of the female papulation as com pared with males. Of the population about 45,000 aro natives and half breeds, 20,000 are Japanese, 13,000 are Chinese, ( 9000 Portuguese, 4000 Americans, and J ,vorthrown. contemporaneous history is concerned, with the reign of King Kalakula, who died in 1S0J at the ugo of fifty-five years. It was he who visited this country, as did his Queen, Kapiolani. Kalakaua was a good sort of King in his way, but tho Government business was not exactly in his lino. The civili zation that was brought to his domain was a little too much for him. He was very fond of entertaining the Eiropean and American visitors and residents on his islands in kingly stylo. The result of it was that his royal Treasury became depleted, and durin; tho last years of his reign lie was probably the most im- pecinious King on earth. His povorty resulted in no small de- grco from his love for the gam; called poker, which, it seem3 needless to say, lie learned from Americans. He would sit up and play pokor all night. If he won the money of his guests he would invito them to stay nt hi3 palacs aud would kill tho fatted calf for them. If ho lo3t, he would give the winners a royal note, provided they wero not so influential that he felt he must pay thsni. Iu that event he would drain tha money of the pockets of someone of his wealthy and obedient subjects. Old Kalakaua did not hesitate to re sort tricks to raise fuuds to have a good time with. One of his victims in this regard was a veuerablo Chinaman, woo, by sharp methods, had accumulated S60,000 or more. The selling of opium on tho islands was illegal. King Kala kaua summoned the old Chinuman, and told him that if he would drop $30,000 into the royal Treasury he could have the sole right to sott opium in tho king dom. The Chinamau brought the $30,- 000. Kalakaua's debts had increased in tbo meantime, however, so be told tho Chinaman that it would call for $30,- 000 more to fix tho deal. The Chinaman brought the other §30,- 000. Knlakaua put it in his royal pocket ond then oooliy announced that tho laws of his land would not permit the selling of opium and that his conscience would not allow him to change tho laws. He told the Chinaman that ho would give him back tho $60,000 with a rate of interost that would bo truly kingly, but the old Chinaman died of a broken heart just the same. King Kalakaua died of too much fun, and nothing else. His widow is living in Honolulu aud lives on a pension. Tnc Queeu who succeeded Kalakaua and wh ) has just been overthrown is his daughter, Lydio Kamakncha Lili- uokalani, more generality referred to as Princess Lydia«it Mrs. Domims. Seated besido her on tho throno had beon his Royal Highness John O. Dominis, tho Prince Consort, an American clerk in a Honolulu shipping house, whom she married thirty years ago and who died a year ago. Tho Queen that was is fifty ycara old and is a good-natured, fat old lady with a dusky skin and a heap ot \horso sense.\ She speaks Englisn fluently and is fairly well educated. As heir pre sumptive she got a sulary of $5000 a year and as Queon hor salary was $20, • 000 a year. Sho and his Royal Highness Doraiais lived in the royal palace at Honolulu, which Kalakaua built. Be tween them they had an income ot about $75,000 a year and thoy saved most of it. Tbe next in lino ot succe33ion to the Hawaiian throuo is Princess K'lialuani, daughter of Colonel A. C. Cleshorn, Col lector of tho Port of Honolulu, who married the Princess Like-Like, now de ceased. The Princess, who is about twenty years old, has been at school in England for several years, and ha3 been purposoly brought under English in- fluanco. In 1887 tho monarchy wns practically King Kalakaua had been THE PALACE A T HONOLULU. there are about 2200 whites of variou 3 nationalities. \ Thu Chineso immigration had to be itopped by law several vear3 ago. Tho Chincso woro found objectionable, be cause of their secrot societies, organized to control tho labor market; because of their trickery iu business matters, and becauss cf tho depravity they woro spread ing nmong native women. Among tho Japanese population males outnumber females five to one and among the Chi nese population fifteen to ono; but among the native population and the other im migrants the ratio is about normal. The Chinsie and the Japan otc hare never been allowed to rote. ures show that capital to the amount of $35,000,000 is investod thero iu planta tions and other productive enterprises. More than 820,000,000 of this is Ameri can money, and not one-fifth of tho bal ance is that of natives. The soil is ex ceedingly fertile and capable of bringing forth a great variety of products; but sugar planting, under the reciprocity treaty with tbo United States, which ad- mils the product free of duty, is so profitable that other industries have been neglected. In 18S9 the exportation of sugar to the United States amounto.l to 242,- 000,000 pounds. Tbo lslauds got a blow from the McKiuley bill in the pro vision admitting all sugar froo of duty. This reduced tho profits of the Hawaiin planters so that many plantations havo been ruined and wages havo beon re duced by about one-third, while the cost of staplo food products thero has becu high. The crisis was beneficial, how ever, in tnat it caused activity in other industries than sugar raising, which could be made highly profitable in that country. The coffee plantations, which had been noglected, received care again, a3 were the rice fields and vineyards and tho raising of cattle and shcop. Tne total exports now are of a value close to §15,000,000 a year, of which BUgar is still tho greater part. About $5J000 % - 000 of importing is done, provisions, clothing, machinery, etc., and tho United States gets nine-tenths of this trade. The financial condition of the country for tbo period of 1890-92, based on the figures of previous periods, would show a revenue of $2,862,505, and expendi tures of $2,853,116. In 1S90 the pub lic debt amounted to $1,934,000, which was raised in London to pay off prior indebtedness, and pays six per cent, in terest. The islands have an educational sys tem that is far in advanco of their gon- cral condition. A complete system of secular common schools is provided tor JRINCESS XAIALUANT. all. Outside of school hours alone Ro- , man Catholic and other religious toach- 1 ers have access to tho children. English 1 is taught in all tho schools. Thero are 1 several superior institutions of learning, notably the Onhu Co I logo for tbe sons of Americans; the Kanai Industrial School, a co-educational institution, and the Kamehamoha Industrial School for Ha waiian boys and girls. Mrs. Charles R. Bishop, a Hawaiian Princess, who was tbo wife ot Charles R. Bishop, a native ot Now York, who is now ono of the big bankora of Honolulu, loft hor wholo fortuno of $500,000 to found this latter school. There wero 178 common schools on tho islands in 1890 ond about 10,00 0 pupils.—New York Times. A $1250 Hulhlo,-. This is a picture of n bulldog worth $1250. That is tho prieo S. Woodwis3, of Finchloy, England, paid for tho cele brated dog Dockleaf boforo he won first prize as the vory best canine of the 150 exhibited at tho recent bench show ol DOCKLEAF. kicking up such high jinks that the for eigners on the island began to protest. They called upon tbe King and asked him to sign a Constitution. Ho said he would not, as it took from him practi cally all his royal power. Tho commit- tco that was waiting upon him numbered only thirteon, but it represented much of tho woalth of the island. Its members told Kalakaua that thoy would give him thirty minutes to sign that Constitution, and gently suggested that there was a mass meeting of indignant foreigners, out on the earner. Kalakaua signed the Constitution. Since'that time the Americans have practically run the Government. They tho South London Bulldog Socioty. Thi sum is said to bo the largest over paid for a dog of Dockloaf's species, but s much higher bid would probably be •necessary now to induce Mr. Woodwist to part with his prize winner. Dockleaf was bred by Mr. Pybua- Sellon and is a dark brindle in color. He has a mossivo head, broad chest and short, powerful body, and is said to be a very good-natured animal.—Mail and Express. A logging contract made at Tacoma, Washington, tho other day, calls for tbi cutting, hauling and the delivery to 1 mill company at that plac3 of 200,000,' 000 feet of timber now standing i* Mason County.
