The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-03-24

TUESDAY, MARCH u. 1885.
MISCELLANY.

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immense crop, and hawkcrs make it
their business to tramp the country
from house TO house in order to
purchase it. The hair is exported
to China for the making of pig-tails;
but the supply, it appears, exceeds
the demand for this purpose, and
hair mats are made from the super
abundance, which are used for the
purpose of protecting piece goods
from the rain rs they are conveyed
from one part OF the country to
another.
The famous st. Bernard dogs are
very carefully trained. A traveller
who visited some of the monasteries
of the monks of st. Bernard few
years ago found the monks teaching
their dogs from the earliest stages
of puppyhood. Not only is physical
and mental training included in the
teaching, but spiritual culture is by
no means neglected. At meal-time
the dogs sit in row, each with tin
dish before him containing his re-
past. Grace is said by one of the
monks; the dogs sit motionless with
bowed heads. Not one stirs until
the "Amen" is spoken. If a frisky
puppy partakes of his meal before
grace is over, an older dog growls
and gently tugs his ear.
A high death-rate will in most
cases be found to be the companion
of defective house-accommodation,
ventilation, water-supply, sewerage,
or scavenging. For instance, ST.
Petersburg, with population Of
nearly million, and the high DEATH
rate of 1872 per thousand, is without
sewerage, and its water-supply is
taken from the river Neva, more or
less contaminated by percolation
from the subsoil. Cairo, with a
death-rate of thirty-seven per thou.
sand, is supplied with water from the
Nile, having no sewers, and the
sewerage filtering through the subsoil
into the Nile above the water intake.
Vienna, with death-rate of 1912
per thousand, has an average of
sixty people in each house, or twice
as many as in Paris, while the rate
able value of the houses in Vienna
is only onc-sixth more than that of
those in Paris. Peking, with death
rate of fifty per thousand, is without
proper sewerage, watcr-supply,
street-cleansing, or other needful
sanitary arrangements.
Charles Colne, the Secretary of
the American Committee of the
Universal Interoceanic Panama Canal
Company, delivered an interesting
lecture before the Franklin Institute
at Philadelphia, October 9th, on
the Panama Canal. After an his
torical review of the earlier plans
for transcontinental canal, begin
ming with Balboa, in 1913, and run
ing down to Dc Lesseps, in 1875.
the lecturer reverted to the ancient
methods of saving the long water
route around the Horn. Under
Balboa the Spaniards arranged that
every year fleet of gallenes should
start at given time from Spain fol-
the East coast Of the Isthmus, and al
the same time another fleet SHOULD
leave Peru for the Western coast
Between the two landing-placcs +,
road was to be opened overland te
transport the cargoes from ship tc
ship. The route selected for thi'
road ran over the ground since dis
covered to be the most suitable, ant
the Panama Canal follows substan
TALLY the same line.
While Washington's monumen
has been building:-We have chro
nicled the history of nine politica
administrations, witnessed the brit
and death of political parties, an
passed through a terrible Civil Wan
four financial strains, and established
the best banking system in the world
The great Republic in the meantime
has grown from 23,000,000 to So,
100000, people, and in materia
wealth from 81, 4O0, 900, or 1920 pc
inhabitant, to S57 900, 100000, o
$1,000 per inhabitant. When tn
National Monument was begun Grea
Britain possessed five times tn
wealth owned by the United States
and while the wealth of the forme
country has only doubled within tn
last four decades, that of the latte
has increased twelve-fold. AS t
the constituent factors of America
progress in their aggregate in tn
four decades they are sufficient
buy up the whole Austrian Empil