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J. C. HEARTSELL, Ed. and Pub.
VOL XIII.
HAWAII.
A Bird’s-Eye View of the Sand¬
wich Islands.
Their Extent, Population, Gov¬
ernment and Trade.
The little group of tho “Sandwich
Islands,” as they are popularly called,
lies on the norther rim of the tropic
zone, in lattitndc 20 and 23, 2100 miles
west of Sail Francisco, with which
they arc connected by a weekly line of
steamers. Other lines running be¬
tween America and Australia also pass
through them, and Honolulu, the capi¬
tal, a town of 20,000 population, on
the island of Oahu, is a city of con¬
siderable commercial importance.
The islands are to a great extent
mountainous and volcanic, but the
soil is fertile, the temperature equa¬
ble, and the warm, moist cliraato sup¬
ports luxuriant vegetation. Crops
ripen at all seasons of tho year, and
the flowers always blooming in the
wildest luxuriance. On one acre of
ground properly graded a man can
raise rice, tara plants, from which
poi, the uative gruel, is made; bread¬
fruit, tigs, cocoanuts, bananas, and
countless smaller fruits and vegeta¬
bles—all, in fact, that is necessary for
life in these islands of indolence.
Some interesting facts regarding the
Sandwich Islands are thus summar¬
ized:
The group, which was discovered
by Captain Cook ovor a century ago,
consists of the islands of Hawaii,
4210 square miles; Maui, 760; Oahu,
600; Kauai, 590; Molokai, 270;
Lanai, 150; Nihau, 97; KaUooIawe,
63—a total of 6640 square miles. The
population consists of 90,000 people,
again of 10,000 since 1884. There
are 40,000 natives and half-castes, 20,
000 Japanese, 13,000 Chinese, 9000
Portuguese, 2000 born in the United
States, 1200 English, German and
French, and the rest of various races.
The Chinese and Japanese are uot al¬
lowed to vote. Of the 15,000 voters
3000 belong to the white race. The
natives, closely resembling the Maoris
of Isew Zealand, have decreased four¬
teen per cent, in eight years and will
soon become extinct. The half-castes,
an the other hand, have increased
about 50 per cent, in tho same period.
Tho government heretofore has been
based much on the English system,
with a queeu, a cabinet, a house of
nobles and a parliament or house of
representatives, which meets every
two years iu April or May. Queen
Lilliuokalani is a Prosbyterian, but
the utmost religious freedom is al¬
lowed, the denominations being di¬
vided as follows: Protestants, 25,865;
Roman Catholics, 20,072; Hebrews,
72, Mormons, 3576, and the rest ll II
designated, In 1890 there were 178
schools, with an attendance of about
ten thousand children. The estimated
revenue for 1891-92 was $2,805,505.
The import trade, 91 per cent, of
which is with the United States, is
mostly in domestic goods, provisions,
machinery, etc. The principal ex¬
ports in 1890 were sugar $12,159,585,
rice $545,239, bananas $176,351,
hides $70,949. The current in use is
mostly American gold and native
silver. The rate of interest varies
from five to ten per cent. Tho public
debt on March 31, 1890, amounted to
$1,934,000, raised in London, paying
six per cent, interest—[New York
Mail and Express.
The Power of the Air.
The magnitude of the store of aerial
energy, writes R. II. Thurston, in a
paper on “Modern Uses of tbe Wind¬
mill,” appearing in the Engineering
Magazine, upon which mankind may
draw, so long as the race exists upon
this earth, is beyond the reach of the
imagination to conceive, but not be¬
yond the power of computation by
the mathematician. Taking the quan
tides roughly and in “round nnm
bers,” tbe atmosphere weighs about a
ton to every square foot of the earth’s
surface; 25,000,000 tons per square
mile, or 5,000,000,000,000,000\ons on
the total of 200 , 000,000 square miles.
Its energy is that due to the motion
of this inconceivable mass, at veloci¬
ties varying Ml the way from the
gentlest zephyr to the hurricane and
the cyclone, rushing over the prairie
or along tho surface of the sea at
more than a hundred miles an hour.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. APRIL 13, 1893.
A cubic mile of air weighs about
10 , 000,000 pounds, and, at the rate of
motion of the cyclone, developed
4,000,000,000,000 “ foot-tous” of
energy, and, if all employed at this
rale for the performance of work,
useful or destructive, this 8 , 000 , 000 ,
000 , 000,000 “foot-pounds” would he
equivalent to more than 2 , 000 , 000 ,
000,000,000 horse-power. If the dis¬
turbance reaches the exterior of the
atmospheric sited inclosing the earth,
it embodies 10 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000,000
horse-power or millions of times as
much as the highest estimates make
the probable whole steam power of the
world at the end of the nineteenth
century.
Assuming the moderate velocity of
10.7 miles an hour for the whole
atmosphere of the globe, its energy
per mile is one-thirty-sixth of that
just computed, and 5,000,000,000,000
tons of atmosphere would represent
about 50,000,000,000,000,000 foot-tons
of energy and not far from 50,000,
000 , 000,000 horse-power certainly
more than a half-million times as much
power as have all the engines in tho
world combined. Each cubic mile
would store 40,000,000,000 horse¬
power; and every square mile, could
109 feet of its superincumbent atmos¬
phere be utilized, would yield about
80,000,000 horse-power, which is not
far from the aggregate of the existing
steam power of the world.
Expense of Improving State Roads.
At tho first annual meeting of the
State Road Improvement Association
of New Jersey, held in Trenton, State
Geologist John C. Smock read a paper
making estimates of the miles of roads
in the state and the expense of im¬
proving them. In 1887, he said, there
were 18,768 miles of public roads,
commonly known as country roads,
or one mile of road to every 250 acres
of land. Those roads made of Tel¬
ford would cost $10 to the acre, and
of gravel about $8 an acre. In the
northern part of New Jersey there are
693 miles of roads which should be
made of stone, while in South Jersey
there arc 738 miles of such roads.
The 693 miles iu the northern part of
the state made of stoue would cost, at
the rate of $100p a mile, $6,930,000.
The 738 miles in South Jersey,made
of gravel, at the rate of $2500 a mile,
would cost $1,845,000, or a total cost
of $9,775,000. Professor Smock said
the rate per mile for the construction
of both kinds of roads could probably
be reduced, but iu the estimate which
ho had made the rate of taxation
would be one dollar for every twelvo
miles. It was the sense of the meet¬
ing that the Slate Aid Law of 1891,
under which several counties will be¬
gin the construction of roads in tho
spring, lias been beneficial in opera¬
tion, and that it would be unwise to
attempt York to amend it at present. — [New
Post.
Rushed With business.
He was a big, strong, healthy-look
ing fellow, and when lie knocked at
a kitchen door on Antoine street and
asked for something toeal, the woman
was not charitably disposed.
“Want something to eat?” she
snapped.
“I’m very hungry, ma’am,” lie re¬
sponded.
“You ought to be.”
“I am,” he admitted humbly.
“Why don’t you go to work?”
“I haven’t time, ma’am.”
“Haven’t time?” she asked in sur¬
prise.
“No ma’am, I’m busy.”
“Busy, indeed!” she said sarcasti¬
cally. “I’d like to know what keepi
you bii 3 y?”
“Hustlin’ arouud from house to
house, ma’am.”
“What?”
“Ilustliu’ around from house to
house, ma’am, tryin’ to git something
to eat, takes up all my time, so I don’t
have any left to work iu. That’s the
gospel truth, ma’am; and if you don’t
give mo a bite, I’ll have to waste two
or three precious hours, ma’am, look
in up somebody that will,” and his
nerve saved him. — [Detroit Free Pres*.
Reasonably Explained.
“Claude, do you know what has be¬
come of the preserve that wa3 in this
bowl?”
“You mean the evaporated peaches,
ma’am?”
“Yes.”
“Don’t you think they might have
evaporated, mamma?”— fJudae.
“TELL THE TRUTH.”
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The discovery was made the other day
that the only authentic copy of the coat
of-arms of the State of Pennsylvania had
disappeared from the walls of Independ¬
ence Hall. An investigation was made,
and then it came out, although no one
had noticed the omission, that the copy
had been missing for several years from
among the shields of the various Stutes
that may be seen hanging side by side.
Capt. Hanson, a member of the Penn¬
sylvania Board of World’s Fair Managers,
who wanted to have a duplicate made
for use at Chicago, can explain the dis¬
appearance only in this way: “In 1874
or thereabouts the Legislature appro¬
priated $300 for the defects express purpose of
correcting certain which were
said to exist in the coat-of-arms used on
official seals. To accomplish this work
a committee, consisting of the Governor,
Attorney-General, and Secretary of State,
was So appointed and empowered to act. this
far as I know or can discover
committee has never reported. It is pos¬
the sible Legislature that the Committee removed appointed in by
it 1873 to
have copies made, and that it now lies
hidden in some painter’s shop or iu some
one’s atti c or cellar.”
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There are twenty well-built towns in
Kansas without a single inhabitant to
waken the echoes of their deserted
streets. Saratoga had a $30,000 opera
house, a large brick hotel, a $ 20,000
school-house, yet there is nobody even
to claim a place to sleep. At Fargo side a
$ 20,000 school-house stands on the
of the hill, a monument to the bond
voting craze. A herder and his family
constitute the sole population of what
was once an incorporated city. This is a
sad commentary on unhealthy booms,
Those Kansas towns, like Wichita, adver¬
tised themselves as phenomenal boom
cities. For awhile “everything hold was of
lovely,” but at last dry rot took
the boom towns and killed them.
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