Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-09-10
Intelligence Items.

the doctors Of the United States number
about G5,OOO
The salary of the Mayor of Boston is
$1,000 year, while the Governor of Mas
sachusetts gets but $1,000.
The next transit of Venus over the suns
surface will occur on the sixth day of De
cember, 1882, the last having occurred De
cember 6, 1874.
OF the S9OOOOO,OOO of exports of pro
ducts from the United States during the
year ended June, 1881, more than 5000
100000 were agricultural products.
If the English language were divided
! into 100 parts, GO would be Saxon, 80 would
be Latin Including, of course, the Latin
that has come to us through the French),
and parts would be Greek.
Population to the square mile of Euro
pean countries Belgium 400. England
and Wales 3S9, Italy 2SS, Germany POI,
Holland 1S5, France $50, Switzerland IT'S.
Austria IT'S, Ireland 1863
The Alaskans recently met at Sitka and
drew up memorial to Congress, praying
for territorial government. They re
solved to hold an election on September 5,
to select a Delegate.
Statistics recently published show that
OF 242,6S1 animals shipped to England
from the United States and Canada during
the twelve months ending last February,
no less than 10,463 were lost
The Cars lot is decidedly not happy
one. He has lately received models of diff
ferent weapons and engines of assassina-
ton, with a written request that he should
select one to be used upon his own person.
The assessed valuation of real and per-
sonal property in the United States illus
trates the rapidity of growth in vivid way
In 1912 the valuation was S2,547, 100000 {:
in 1852 it was SG,117,531, 013 in 1860 it
was S12,0H, 0S3,515 in 1870, S13, S9S, O96,-
800 in 1850, S1G,25S,064, 100.
Austria has more public libraries than
any other country in Europe. They num-
Der SIT, and contain altogether 5,475, 79S
volumes. France has 500 Libraries, Italy
d56, Prussia 39S, Great BRIAN only 200.
and Russia 145. OF these the National
French Library is the largest, containing
2,O7S,OO0 volumes the British Museum
comes next with 100000, while the Mu-
nlch Library possesses 100000.
table on the ratio of ministers to mem
beers in various denominations shows that
IN the African Methodist Church there is
one minister to every 224 members Re
formed Dutch) Church, one minister to
lat Presbyterian, one to ia Protestant
Episcopal, one to 100; Congregational one
to 107 Methodist Episcopal, one to Ia.
The average in seventeen denominations is
one to AL
Lord Beaconsfelds will has just been
proved. and the net amount disposed of.
after deducting debts and funeral expenses
is shown to be S3l6,562. All the late lords
real estate goes to his nephew, Coningsby
RALPH Disraeli, and is to be entailed for
the benefit OF the latter's male descendants.
The rest of the personal estate is to be used
IN purchasing more land, to be settled in
similar manner.
A new and fatal disease has made it's
appearance among the horses of Blue and
Dry Greeks, Washington Territory. The
first symptoms of the disease are an intense
drowsy appearance and weakness in the
IONS, when the animal becomes weak and
lies down. Death soon follows. The dis
ease seldom runs over two or three DAYS,
and IN nearly every case proves fatal Elk
aminations made on dead horses by veteri-
nary surgeons so far have resulted in
nothing beyond the fact that it is disease
totally unknown to horsemen. Many val
liable horses have succumbed.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, in
his first monthly statement for the current
fiscal year of imports and exports, reports
the excess of exports of merchandise for
the twelve months which ended july 81.
1881, as S256,69l, 591, and in the twelve
months which ended July 81, 1880, it was
Sill, 750,150. The excess of the exports or
OF imports of gold and silver coin and bull
lion was for the twelve months which
ended July 81, 1881, $90,666,977 add for
the twelve months which ended July 81,
1880, it was SIG, 1860. The total value
OF imports of merchandise during the
twelve months which ended July 81, 1881,
was S6S3, 972,221, and during the previous
twelve months it was S637, 724,475. The
total value of exports of merchandise for
the twelve months which ended july 81.
1881, was 1855, 762,371, and during the
twelve months which ended July 81, 1880,
was SS49,415, 066.-AmericaH paper.
AGE or GERMAN NEWSPAPERS An inter.
esting statistical paper on German news
paper literature, lately published, tells us
that at the end Of last year there were in
circulation in Germany 4,413 newspapers.
vi these 9S Were older than the present
century. Among them, the Fluakturter
Journal 261 years old, the Mogde5u,y Zeitung.
253 years old, the Leipziger Zeitung 22l years
old, the Jenoische Zeitang POT years, the
hu9souger fo1Edfung l95 years, the Goth
aisehe zeituag 100 years, the Vossiche Zeitung
169 years, the Berlin I,teaigeasblaa 12S
years, the Kolineshe Zeitun9 81 years. There
are 266 averaging from 80 to 80 years
OF age LILY averaging from 50 to n
years 1,542 between 20 and 6 years and
1850 between 5 and months old. Alto
gether there are ], 491 German newspapers
more than 20 years old. That newspa-
pers existence in Germany is often a very
ephemeral one may be inferred from the
fact that 20 per cent. OF the newspapers
which circulated through the German post
ofiice IN 1880 came first into existence
within the same year, and the average OK
lstence OF those newspapers was not more
than months. Some have been more
hardy, and have survived into the present
year.
BEER DRISKING IN EURopE.-S Statistics
laid before the Congress of Brewers which
recently met at Versailles show that there
are in Europe about 10000 breweries, which
produce annually 2,250,000,000 gallons of
malt liquor. Great Britain alone produces
third of the entire quantity, or to be ex-
act, 7S5,0l7,002 gallons. Prussia comes
next with 3lS.5Tg99S gallons, Rav.r;,