The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-07
FACTS AND NEWS.

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The cost of the Canadian Pacific
Railway has been $3.50, 100000.
There are 225 different kinds of
birds in Southeastern Dakota.
In Ohio there is one Divorce for
every twenty marriages.
Native American soldiers exceed
all other nationalities in stature.
The silver coinage of India
amounts to about $50, 100000 annu-
ally.
The reports of the massacre in
Anam are greatly exaggerated. 1n-
stead of 10000, it is now stated
that only few hundred Christians
were killed.
The debt of Canada is about $50
per head for every man, woman and
child in the Dominion.
Eastern papers say that the SON
in-law crop of 1885 is one of the
poorest ever harvested.
1t is estimated that over 10000
persons are annually buried in the
potter's field of New York city.
Ladies who ride are growing so
particular about their habits that
they have TO be fitted while sitting
in the saddle.
1t is matter of common report
at the city of Mexico that the Gov
eminent is looking to England for
financial aid, and that new treaty
with Great Britain is to be arranged.
The Government is very favorably
inclined to the investment of British
capital in the northern tier of States,
as counterpoise to the American
influence.
"America" was written by the
Rev. Samuel Francis Smith in 1882,
! and it was sung in Boston on the
Fourth of July of that year.
United States Senator Coke has
inaugurated the anti-Prohibition
campaign in McLennan county,
Texas. He declared Prohibition to
be an attack on personal liberty.
1t is estimated that au average of
5000 immigrants come into Ken
lucky annually. Most of the num-
Der are from Germany and Switzer-
land.
| In the list of a, 1863 male patients
I'M Pennsylvania Insane Asylum
there are 500 farmers, 469 mer.
chants, 1Os physicians, 116 lawyers
GO clergymcn, So teachers and only
6 editors.
| A curious coincidence in connec
ton with a school of seventy ode
pupils at Sweetwater, Ca, all under
Is years of age, is that every one, i
is said, is related to the teacher ant
to each other.
Iced soup is a popular drink il
Chicago. Bouillon is in the larges
demand, but tomato, vegetable, o!
tail, pea and barley are much liket
and are serious competitors tt
lemonade and other standard bever
ages.
The Government at Panama ha
notified the Star and Herald tina
under the existing martial law
would not be permitted to publis
any news relating to Government
affairs except that furnished by tn
Government. The editor published
the notification, and announced con
currently that unless allowed t
handle the Government news in ii
own way it would not handle it
all, official or unofficial.
When your collars and cuffs com
from the laundry as hard and stit
as board don't break your stud
and cuff-buttons in trying to pr
them on, but just dip your finger
water and touch it to the buttol
holes, and see how easy they 60 OF
The report that Germany has occl
pied the Caroline Islands is not bt
lieved in Berlin. Spain has address
ed note on the subject to the Gel
man Government, and has sent tw
war vessels to the scene of the n
ported occupation.
Hugh Larkin, the COMMISSIONS
of Statistics of Ohio, has been il
n vestigating the cost of maintainin
I the families of mechanics in this
S State, and finds that it is less tina
L the cost of maintaining prisoners
the county iail. beinp 3245 cen,