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Show Vowels In the Hawaiian Tongne. The Hawaiian language is composed mainly of vowels and a few consonants put in to vary the monotony. And th beauty of the system is that there is no waste. Every vowel is pronounced. For instance, when the American eye wink, at the appearance of the simple word "naauao," the glib native rolls ot the Eve syllables with neatness and dispatch. This means "enlighten." Double vowels vow-els are vsry frequent, tnt never a diphthong. diph-thong. Three vowels are not uncommon, uncom-mon, and, as above, four and sometimes more are found unsepar&ted by consonants. conso-nants. In the mouth of the uneducated native the language is apt to be explosive, explo-sive, but the higher classes speak it with a fluent grace that surpasses the French or the Italian. In sound it somewhat resembles the general flow of the con tinental European languages, for the vowels all have the French quality, and the accents are not dissimilar. Wash-Ineton Wash-Ineton Star. Home Rule's Setback. Events furnish complete proof of the assertion that home rule will be merged in the larerer campaign and will not again come to the front in parliament for some time. The Iri6h leaders find it necessary, for prudential reasons, to preserve an independent attitude and refrain re-frain from an open alliance with Lord Rosebery, but they fully recognize the practical good sense of his policy. They regret, some of them, the prime minister's indiscreet honesty in declaring declar-ing the necessity of convincing England of the justice of Ireland's demands before be-fore home rule is possible, but his words are almost identical with previous utterances utter-ances of Gladstone himself and of suck patriotic Irishmen as T. P. O'Connor London Cor. New York Sun. |