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Show THE SANDWICH ISLANDS AT OUR CENTENNIAL. I King Kalakaua has notified the director-general of the Philadelphia centennial celebration that he will visit this country on that occasion, and that he proposes to place on exhibition ex-hibition specimens of all the products of the Hawaiian islands, with many curious ancient articles of manufacture, manufac-ture, including a feather war cloak mado from feathers uf a bird called the mnmo. The last specimen of these cloaks belonged to Kamohamo-ha Kamohamo-ha I. Thia plonk occupied nine generations gen-erations ol kings in making. Each bird furnishes hut two feathers ol bright yellow, one under each wing, so thai an immense number of birds were captured to make this mantle, which is lour ft-et long and eleven and a half feet wide at the bottom. Tim value of the cloak is fo0,000. Tue bird from whoe feathers thia eiuak ia made is only found in the inoft mnnnuinous parts of tho islands, and icijuirts niuri) patience and skill for its cjtptnre. A Hawaiian band of native youths aro to accompany the king ami bis escort. , |