AN ISLAND NATION. A STUDY OF HAWAII AND HER PEOPLE. The Simplicity and Barbarous Innocence or the Natives—A Beautiful Land—The Scourge of Leprosy—Value of Our Ha walUa Imports. Bluffer than Wisconsin. Hawaii, land of smiling sunshine and rushing rain, place of parudlse and abode of torment! Ten little islands sleeping in the sea, where Indolence and Industry meet and mingle; where com merce thrives Incredibly, and idleness exists in its laziest perfeotlon! At once a health resort and a breeding-place of humanity's most frightful scourge! Where Nature's most refulgent luxuri ance creeps to the very edge of pits where Nature's most malignant anger over boils and bubbles, and sometimes reaches out a sinuous arm of molten lava to cngnlf a town and murder thou sands! Hawaii is truly a strango little nation—a strange little nation in strange little lands with a strange little peoplo. But with all the strangeness of them all they are marvelously rich now and richer yet in future possibilities. Ever since this group of oases on Pacific's watery desert was discovered by Captain Cook and claimed by Van couver, the Sandwich Islands have been indefinitely regarded as the home of cannibals. As a matter of faot, no in stance of cannibalism has ever been proven against them. The natives doubt- Jess gained their reputation for ferocity through the killing of Captain Cook. But Captain Cook appeared among them claiming and believed to be a god. For weeks he and his sailors basked in the credulity of the natives, who voluntari ly despoiled themselves of whatever they valued most —from quaint, carved trinkets to their wives—to make their peace with the white-skinned emissaries HAWAIIANS KATINQ. from heaven. At last they found that they had been deceived —that Cook and his English sailors were not gods, but grasping, lying men, not half so near divinity as they themselves. Then Cook was murderod. And if, full of the knowledge of the first wiong that had ever entered into their childish lives, they helped his death along with fitting torture, is it to be wondered at? Now, at K awaloa, in the blue shadows of one of Hawaii's love liest mountains, within the sound of the gentle [murmur of the world's bluest sea, and surrounded by magnifi cent palms, a marble monument, at which all Hawaii does homage, stands above the moldering bones of the mur dered man. A Gentle People. If the natives were malicious and man-eating, then they have changed marvelously since, for nowadays it seems impossible for them to believe a man is bad. With them you are their friend until you have thrice proved yourself their enemy, and even then you need but ask forgiveness to receive their love again. And to be a Hawaii an's friend is to be little less than his master. His deeds of kindness stop only with his ability. The islands are as beautiful as the people are good-natured. Never ceas ing verdure, which invades every nook affording fingerhold for a clinging ten dril, until it is hard sometimes to guess which is habitation and which is thicket; towering mountains, often capped by inextinguishable volcanic fires Instead of snow; winding valleys, through whose bosky depths crystal streams glitter in the summer and change to raging torrents In the rainy season—all these are there with ether wonders—-all beautiful. By tho wayside grass cot tages for the natives and pretty wooden structures for the foreigners offer open hearted hospitality to the tourist. Breezes always blow. They blow health to the foreign invalid; but, alas! they sometimes blow horror and death to the native. Leprosy is decreasing in Hawaii, it is said; but still the famous leper colony on Molokai, one of the most beautiful islands of the group, does not lack ten- Ants. Harrowing farewell scenes are not unusual at the isolated Honolulu wharf from which the leper boat sails. "Aloha!" murmurs the departing one, which means farewell. "Aloha! aloha!'' cry the dear ones left behind, and they rend the air and fill their mouths with ashes in the extremity of their grief, for it Is "aloha" forever! The human freight on the little steamer is carried on its A VOLCANO GUIDE. plunging, wave-rocked way to a doom raore terrible than death—a living, breathing, conscious decay. In that leper settlement all that is not human thrives and blossoms and Is fiuitful. All that is human gathers some new loathsomeness, some novelty of horror with each succeeding day. This blight and helplessness of the Hawaiian*, whoa they believe death In boverlng near, hava muoh to do with the steady decrease In their numbers, which in twenty-one years has amount- ] ed to 44 per cent. But there are other \ reasons for this decline. The delicate. Nature-loving Hawaiians seem not to , thrive under civilization. Foreign dls- , eases of however simple a sort are al- HAWAIIAN HOTEL, HONOLULU. most always fatal with them, and their women have become strangely sterile. At the present rate the lapse of not many years will bring a time when few full-blooded natives are alive. How the Queen Laid Idolatry Low. Yet while they live they are a brave and muscular race. Thero are few weak-minded ones among them, al though Intermarriage of families was until recently common. In everything except facing unseen death they are courageous. The queen, who was re cently deposed, once gave as magnifi cent an exhibition of will power and heroism as any woman ever did. Her subjects had been forbidden to worship Pele, the god of the vol canoes, many years ago, and had almost forgotten him when an eruption oc curred which threatened to overcome Hllo, on the east coast of the Island of Hawaii. Hllo is smaller than Honolulu, the capital, but much more beautiful. Its trade Is trifling, but as a health and pleasure resort it is popular with both natives and foreigners. It is the Paris of tho Sandwich Islands. Honolulu Is their Chicago. Tho great river of lava was slowly but surely descending on the city. The then reigning Princess, thinking that Pele was powerful after all and was sending the lava in anger, prayed to him three days and nights. Then, at the very back door of the city, the lava stopped and now forms a glit tering gray wall behind tho town. This revived the faith of the islanders in Pele. When Lilluokalani came into power she decided to unseat It and announced the fact through out her kingdom. The Queen went to tl:e volcano of Kilauao, in whose molten crater Pele was believed to abide. It had been considered sinful and provocative of certain death to eat oliolo berries without first offering some to Pele, but as tho Queen went sho picked and ate ohelo berries, meanwhile singing a song of defiance to Pele. It was dramatic, and may seem silly here, but it was tho only way in which she could, as she did, remove tho last vestige ' of idolatry from the Hawaiian Islands. I Sho ventured into the very heart of the crater, stopping only when the lava on which sho walked burnod her shoes. Put Pele harmed her not and sho de rided him. Since then all Hawaii has laughed in his face, and eaten ohelo berries when and whero it pleased. The native Hawaiians, with their rich brown skins, their big liquid eyes, and their supple, energetio limbs, are far from being an unhandsome race. SCENE, ON HAWAIIAN RAILROAD. The men aro of good height and muscu lar; tho women charming in their youth, beautiful in their early prime, and no worse than other tropical women in their maturity. From a Materialistic Point ef View. Such are the Hawaiian people and the Sandwich Islands. Surely they form a fascinating study for the romancer. In the commerce of the Hawaiian group the materialist finds a no less absorbing subject for research and speculation. The islands lie between the 19th and 20th degrees, north latitude, and longi tude 154-ltiii west. Twenty-one hun dred miles of uninterrupted ocean roll between them and San Francisco. The largest of the islands is Hawaii, with Maul, Oahu, haul, Molokai, Lanai, Nihau, Kahoolawe, Lehua ar.d Molokinl, ranging In size in the order named. The total area of the Islands is CI,OOO miles. Thus the new 8t ate—if the islands be ad mitted—will be '2,000 square miles larger than Idaho, 2,500 square miles bigger than Michigan, 5,000 square miles larger than Wisconsin, and only 8,000 square miles smaller than Missouri or Washington. Nor does the only rich ness of Hawaii lie In size. Her popula tion of 89,9t0 is larger than that of AVashlngton and almost as large as that of South Dakota, which has 15,000 square miles greater area. Hawaii has been referred to as a land of languor-loving, lazy bodies. But these lazy bodies have built up a trade that is not to be despised. In 1890 Hawaii's total business dealings with this country alone amounted to more than $17,000,000, the balanoe of which was largoly in Hawaiian favor, for while these brown-skinned islanders were buying $4,711,417 of American goods. America was buyinit $12,31:1,5108 of Hawaiian products. Trade between the I'nited States and Hawaii has reached proportions that few people re alize. We bought three-fourths as much in 1890 from that little group of islands in the South Pacific as we did from the whole Chinese Empire, notwithstanding firecrackers and tea. Multiply our im , ports from Hawaii by three and you , will have a total almost as great as our 1 imports were from Canada in the same year. Among the commodities which helped to make up tbe<w surprising to tals were sugar, coffee, pulu (a silky vegetable fiber) and hides. It will be observed that this little water-locked nation is not to be lightly sneezed at as a commercial entity. Wholly American In Sympathy. When Queen LUluokalanl was de posed, it was not surprising that her subjects should apply for a bit of the protecting warmth found under the wings of the American eagle. For many years the Islands have been en tirely American in sympathies. The whole population, except the 5,001) or 6,000 Englishmen, Germans and Frenchmen, is more American in spirit than it is Hawaiian. For years it has been not unusual for residents, whether they had ever visited this land of the free or not, to rerer to it as "home," and, should one contemplate coming to see us, ho would very likely speak of the projected voyage as "going home." The agricultural products of the Isl ands are, besides sugar, to whloh more than seventy large estates aro devoted, rice, of which '2.455 tons were exported in 1883; some coffee, pineapples,oranges, mangoes, custard, apples, guavas, maizo, and wheat. Besides these, great quan tities of kalo are raised, and to the fact that it needs practically no cultivation, and that a patoh forty feet square will produce enough food to support a native for a year, is chiefly attributed the indo lence of the islanders. Bheep and cattle are raised to some extent. There are only a few 6heep owners in the islands, but their flocks are large. In 1878, the latest figures obtainable, 523,000 pounds of wool were exported. The commerce between the islands and the United States practically began In 187(3, when a trade treaty was signed. A Telling Plea. "I think nature treated me al mighty shabby in giving me such a small body," said D. A. McFall, as he limped to a seat in the Southern ro tunda and laid his crutch down be side him. "I am a lawyer, and I find mvsmallness of stature a tremendous handicap. A little man cannot im press a jury worth shucks. Every thing he says is discounted 25 pel cent, befofb he says it. A jury don't expect much from a little man, and is determined not to be disappointed. I remember the first case in which I was employed. 1 had the law and the evidence ou my side, but the op position had a lawyer that stood fi feet and wore a No. "2 corset. I made a powerful p'.oa and set the facts before the jury in such a man ner that an intellectual infant could not mistake 'em. Then I sat down, believing that I had the verdict grabbed. But I hadn't. That Goliath of gab got up with all the pompous dignity of the King of the Jabber waks ordering the execution of a cap tive sovereign. He turned his sub cellar voice loose, and I felt that my goose was cooked. He said: 'Genel men of the joory: My young friend •ere has made er right peart talk. He haser—um fairly— er dazzled us— um with his book larnin'. but he has made it er plain—um—er, gcntelmen of the joory, that-er 'e don't know-er much about law. ne hae-er said um —oh pshaw!' and with a lofty wave of his hand he sank back into his scat with a look of profund triumph. The jury returned a verdict adverse to my client without leaving their' seats. Same way in addressing a po litical meeting. The little man with the corn-stock fiddle voice ain't in it, I don't caro if he's a second Solomon, when pitted against a big fellow who makes the platform creak like a new saddle everv time he changed his po sition, and whose voice sounds like underbrush thunder. Same in court ship. Whenever I'm courting a girl and one of these big animals takes a fancy to her, I don't wait to get run over by the freight train—l gee clear off the right o' way."—Globe-Demo crat look a l>i lnk of Turpentine. "It is remarkable what little Inci dents will change 1 lie course of a man's life," said the veteran lawyer, Joseph A. Bonham, the other day, while in a reminiscent mood to a Philadelphia Call reporter. "Now, if it had not been for a little mistake 1 should probably have been a coun try storekeeper instead of a lawyer." "How was that?" Inquired the lis tener. "Well, when I was a young fel low," said the lawyer, "my father placed me with Andrew Provost, an old French merchant, atFrenchtown, N T . J., to learn the business. Provost kept a little of everything in the store, which was in charge of John Jones, who now keeps a store of his owu somewhere In Jersey. I hadn't been there long when one day an old farmer came in with a half-gallon jug alter gin. Jones sent me down the cellar with the old farmer to draw it. As I was not familiar with the nu merous barrels in the cellar and didn't know much about gin, I con cluded to let the farmer try a drink from the different barrels until he strucK the right one. This pleased him. He took the tumbler and turned the spigot of the first barrel. 'Struck it first time,' said he, as he staightened up and drauk. Then he threw himself down on the cellar floor and yelled like a fiend. He bad struck the turpent.ine barrel. They took him over to the doctor's to have him pumped out, while 1, thinking the farmer was a dead man sure, ran up to the Provost mansion and liid in my room. I lav low all night till 4 o'clock in the morning, when I skipped out and drove to the turnpike, where I knew the stage was coming along at that early hour. I got to Philadelphia by oasy stages and soon afterward found out that the farmer who drank the turpentine was still alive. 1 entered Theodore Cuyler's office and studied law. If it had not been for that turpentine I might have been a Jerseyman yet." An AQ van cage. "Oh, for the age of chivalry!" sighed Chappie "Why so?" queried Hickley. "The knights used to wear tin trousers and they never bagged at the knee."—Browning, King & Ca'« Monthly. FOR OUK LITTLE FOLKS. A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN TEREST TO THEM. Children Htn Done, What They Are Doing, and What They Should Do to Pass Their Childhood Days. Word* for Young Spellers. Stand up, scholars, now, andspelL Spell plenaklstocope and knell. Or take some simple words as chilly. Or gauger. or the garden Illy. To spell such words as syllogism And lachrymose and synchronism. And Pentateuch and saccharine, Apocrypha and celandine. Lactiferous and cecity. Jejune and homeopathy. Paralysis and chloroform. Rhinoceros and pachyderm. Metempsychosis, gherkins, basque. Is certainly no easr task. Kaleidoscope and Tennessee, Kamschatka and dispensary. Diphthong and erysipelas. And etiquette and sassafras. Infallible and ptyallsui Allopathy and rheumatism. And cataclysm and beleaguer. Twelfth, eighteenth, rendezvous, Intriguer, And host of other words are found On English and on classic ground. Thus Bebrlng Strait and Michaelmas, Thermopylae, Cordilleras, Suite, hemorrhage. lalap. Havana, Clnquefoll and ipecacuanha. And Rappahannock and Shenandoah, And Schuylkill, and a thousand more. Are words that some good spellers miss In dictionary land like this, Nor need one think himself a scroyle If some of these bis efforts folL —Exchange. A Young Mian's Chances. A mother who now sends out a son into the business world launches him at a time when the chances are all in favor of a young man, writes Ed ward W. Bok, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Business men were never more willing to place larger trusts upon the shoulders of young men than they arc to-day. "Young blood," as it is called, is the life of the modern business world, and is everywhere sought. In New York the demand for the right kind of young men in all capacities is far greater than the supply, and what is true of New York is true of all the large cities. Bear in mind, however, I say the right kind of young men, and by that classification I mean young men who are willing to work, and work hard. The day of the young man who works by the clock, eagerly watching for the hour when the office shall close, has gone by, even if it ever existed. Hundreds of young men are energetic in a new position until its novelty wears off and then become mere machines whose places can be filled at a day's notice. No mother need have undue anxiety for the success of a son who steps out into the business world, so long as he bears in mind a few essential points. He must be honest above all thiugs, and allow nothing to convince him that there is a compromise between honesty and dishonesty. He must be an out and out believer in the homely but forci ble saying that a man cannot drink whisky and be in business. He must, too, decide between being a society man or a business man; he cannot be both. He must make his life outside the office the same as in it, and not be possessed with the prevalent Idea that his employer has no business to question his movements outside of office hours. An employer has every right to expect his employes to be re spectable at all times, in the office or out of it. Hu<l ritiloMophy on Her Sl<le. "Spell toes," said the mother, who was teaching her little daughter, 7 years old, to spell. "T-o-z-e," answered the child. "No, dear, that's not right. T-o-e-s spells toes." "But it sounds like t-o-z-e." "I know it, but you cannot go by the sound." Then, in order to enforce this prop osition, the mother called on her daughter to spell froze. "F-r-o-e-s," said the child. "No, you're wrong again. This time we do use the z and spell the word f-r-o-z-e." "Huh!" grunted the child. "Now, spell rose," said the mother. The child hesitated. Finally she said: "I don't know whether to say r-o-z-e or r-o-e-s, and really I don't know that either would be right." "Spell it r-o-s-e," said the mother, "though there is another word pro nounced just like it that's spelled r-o-e-s. That word Is the name of the spawn of fishes." The poor little child looked very miserable. "Just one more word," said the mother. "Tell me how you spell blows. "Well," said the child, who had had quite enough nonsense, as she viewed it, from her mother, and had sud denly made up her mind to pay back In kind, "I spell it three ways. I spell it b-l-o-s-e for breakfast, b-l-o-e-s for dinner, and b-l-o-z-e for supper." "I spell it b-l-o-w-s all the time," said the mother. The child said nothing for a min ute or two. Then, looking up, she solemnly remarked: "I think, mamma, that the English language was made for persons very, very well educated." New York Times. A Stcry About the l*an«y. A pretty fable about the pansy is current among the French and Ger man children. The flower has five petals and five sepals. In most pan sles, especially of the earlier and less highly developed varieties, two of the petals are plain in color and three are gay. The two plain petals have a single sepal, two of gay petals have a sepal each, and the third, which is the largest of all, has two sepals. The fable it that the pansy represents a family, consisting of husband, wife, and four daughters, two of the latter being stepchildren of the w.fe. The plain petals aro theHtepchiidren,with | only one chair; the two small gay petals are thi daughters with a chair each, and the large gay petal is the wife, with two chairs. To find the father one must strip away the petals until the stamens and pistils are bare. They have a fanciful resemblance to an old man with a flannel wrap about his neck, bis shoulders upraised and Ms feet in a bathtub. The story is probably of French origin, because the French call the pansy the step mother.—Ex. For Inky Fingers. A little girl I know has made a wonderful discovery, which she thinks all other little school boys and girls should know, too. "It's so useful, mamma," she says. "Every boy and girl gets ink on their fingers, you know." "Surely they do, and on their clothes as well," said the mother. "I can't get the spots out of my clothes, but I'm sorry when they get there," responded the little girl. "I try very hard not to. But I can get the ink off my fingers. See?" She dipped her fingers into water, and while they were wet she took a match out of the match safe and rubbed the sulphur end well over every ink spot. One after another she rubbed, and one after another the spots disappeared, leaving a row of white fingers where had been a row of inky ones. "There!" said the little girl, after she had finished. "Isn't that good? I read that In a housekeeping paper, and I never knew they were any good before. I clean my fingers that way every morning uow. It's just splen did." So some other school girls and boys might try Alice's cure for inky fin gers.—Harper's Young People. A Boy to the Rescue. In one of the great Pennsylvania manufactories there was recently an apparent discrepancy in the accounts involving a matter of 3,000 pounds of scrap iron. The clerks spent two whole days over the figures and final ly gave up the task of trying to make the accounts balance. Several days later the office boy took a notion to amuse himself by adding a column of figures on a sheet of paper which hap pened to be on the desk before him, but somehow he could not make the footings agree with the amount set down. His curiosity was quickened and, not being pressed with work, he examined each figure minutely and discovered a fly speck at the side of the figure one, In the thousand col umn, which made it look precisely like a four. Each of the clerks had called it a four, and but for the sharp eyes of the boy, the mystery would have probably remained unexplained. Puntftliment for a King. Harper's Young People mentioned not long ago that the King of Spain is a more or less haughty boy, and that he does not always treat his sub jects with that gracious courtesy which is expected from monarchs in these times. The other day, when he was driving with his nurse, the boy king is said to have put out his tongue at the world in general, and the residents of Madrid in particular. The editor of a republican newspaper thereupon proceeded to make politi cal capital out of the event, and drew a moral that kings are not needed in this age. When the news of the king's behavior reached Queen Chris tina through the newspapers, it is said that she first lectured her son on his duties and responsibilities, and then, laying him across her royal knee, administered a vigorous spank ings This may not be the touch that makes the whole world kin, but a great many little American democrats will know hereafter how to sympa thize with this son of royalty. Johnny at School* Little Johnny Fizzletop had spent his first day at school. "What did you learn?" asked his mother. "Didn't learn anything." "Well, what did you do?" "Didn't do anything. There was a woman wanted to know how to spell cat and I told her."—Texas Slft *ngs. Trues and Lightning Stroke. The statistics lately compiled by D. Jonesco concerning the conditions under which trees are most likely to be struck by lightning are of great interest. It was for a long time sup posed that certain kinds of trees were particularly subject to destruction by lightning, while others were quite free from danger. Among the first was the oak, and among the latter was the laurel. Mr. Jonesco now finds that at very high potential elec trical discharges all kinds of trees are subject to destruction by lightning. Trees containing oils are least sub ject to be struck, those containing very much oil being protected the mo t. Lightning appears to prefer those trees which contain starch,also those which contain oil to a slight degree only, in summer. The quan tity of water contained in the tree has no effect on its liability to be struck. Dead limbs of trees contain ing oil, are particularly likely to be struck. Cambium, bark and leaves do not alter the conductivityof trees. The nature of the soil has no connec ■ tion with the frequency of destruction of trees by lightning. a tie i-rogressive Austrian. Austria announces an electric loco motive which is to travel 126 mi es an hour. The Independence Beige follows with the statement that the North Belgian Company and the North France Company are construct ing a line for locomotives, operated i by electricity, on which the journey from Brussels to Paris, about ID2 ' miles, will le accomplished in oighty i minutes, a speed of nearly 150 miles i an hour. It Is further stated that ' the trains will be running in about ' two months. TRUMPET CALLS. Ham's norn Sounds a Warning; Mot* the Urn-adeemed. fLL lies are great travelers. (THE riches that run to us sooo WHENEVER there Is selfish ness there is sin. THE greatest of all duties is the present one. GOD is never loved until Hia word is believed. THE man who hates his enemies does not love God. A BAD man hates the things that can do him good. CHRIST was God's idea of what a man should be. WHEN we try to please everybody we shall please nobodv. No WOUND can hurt so badly as the one inflicted by a friend. THE world demands of a Christian all that the Bible requires. A LIE turns pale whenever it finds out that truth is on its track. BEWARE of the man whose wife is always saying he has no faults. IT is no harder for God to make a mountain than a grain of sand. WnEN you get a giant down, stick to him till you cut his head off. IT is easier to backslide at camp meeting than it is in a shipwreck. TIIL real meaning of (reform is try ing to make a tiger behave itself. CLIPPING a tiger's claws never makes him lose his taste for blood. THE devil loves to hang around people who do not give half enough. THE higher men rise outside of Christ, the farther they have to fall. IT is when we are willing togo down ourselves that Christ is lifted up. WE do not have to travel far to find out that all hogs do not wear bristles. THERE are too many people who are only pious when things go right. GOD can say things to the poor that he cannot even hint at to the rich. TnE world is full of heroes whose names will never be known in this life. SOME people will sell their souls very cheaply f6r the promise of spot cash. WE lose our own possessions the moment we begin to covet those of another. THERE is nothing against which the Bible warns us that is not a way of death. SALVATION is conditioned upon our being willing to receive it through Christ. WNAT the devil did in the Garden of Eden every sinner would try to do in Heaven. No MAN has ever yet been able to climb into Heaven on a ladder of his own make. WHEN God calls for volunteers, it is not always giants who are the first to step out. WHEN a man measures himself BE always does it with a badly shrunken yardstick. THE kind of religion that warms and cheers is the kind that is full of sunshine. IT is only in man and through man that the love of God can be seen and understood. WE will not break any of the other commandments so long as we keep the first one. THERE is nothing some people aro so slow to learn as that they have been humbugged. TIIE less a man amounts to the prouder he is that some of his an cestors were big people. GRANTING a license to any kind of a sin is the same as being willing that the devil shall live. Jedge Waxem's Proverbs. When a man's pattrlotlsm gits to be over a yard wide and all wool thar's an oflls somers in site. Some farmers hain't got no better sense than to think they kin improve ther crops by top dressin' with polll ticks. It Is a good deal harder fer a onest statesman to stay pore than to git rich. The Amerlkln eagel lays eggs all over the world. Pollltieks and law is purty much the same in all langwldges. The old soljer Is gittln' too many trends that wants to help him. Pulpits can't purify elections. Mighty few Congressmen has got any backbone to spare. Government oflises Is a pore Invest ment. Hen pollltieks Is mostly fuss and fethers. Pollltieks is the same all the year round. Santy Claus ain't seekin' oflls. When a man gets a government job lie thinks It Is Orlsmus. It's easier for a pollitishan to make promises in the old year than to carry them out in the new. Congress resume every year jlst the same and don't git no better. A statesman hain't no more right to git drunk Crlsmus than ho has any other time. Santy Claus ain't In pollltlcs, mebl e, but he's mighty nice to people that's got money. The wimmen sufrngists want It changed to "I'eese on earth, good will to wimmen." The Godess of Liberty don't hang up her stoekin'. Every star in the Ameriken flag is a new star uv Bethlehem.—Free Press. KuglUh Shipbuilding. 1)11 ring 1*92 711 vessels, aggregat ing 1,201,107 tons, were launched io the I'nltcd Kingdom. Of this num ber thirty were war ships, aggregat ing 151,157 tons displacement. The output of 1802 falls about 21,000 tons below that of 1881.
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