The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

Texas claims population of $500, 900.
A fast ocean steamer costs between
500, 900 and $500 ,OeO.
There are more than $500 lady physi-
clans in the United States.
The best oranges are those which feel
the heaviest in the hand.
More than 10000 miles of railroad are
directly tributary to Chicago.
India has population of 25O,OOO,OO9,
of which all are pagans save 1,2OO,OOO
Vienna has ten times as many doctors
in proportion to population as London.
Since 1925 to the close of 1884, 12,719,-
OO5 immigrants arrived in the United
States.
The New York "Observer'' has a living
subscriber that has paid regularly for it
since 1926.
The manufacture Of gas in the United
States was first successful in Baltimore ia
1921.
1t cost $47, 16O,9S6 to construct TIA,
Erie Canal, enlarge it and keep it in
pair up to 1876.
Canada owes $3.50. $50, 418, or about 800
for each MN, woman and child within H.
borders.
Small permanent magnets have he. :.
made which will lift twenty-five tiu,e
their own weight.
The light of the sun is estimated to
equal in quantity 1,585, ZOO, O0O, 900, OOO,-
900, 600, 900, 600 candles.
There are $50 disabled ex-Confederate
soldiers living in the poor-houses of North
Carolina.
In Massachusetts, pews in Roman
Catholic churches are now sold at stated
prices at every mass.
The southern part of Africa has 10000
tame ostriches, producing $3,00O,000
worth of feathers annually.
Ia giving his daughter $3.50, 900 the
Duke of Bedford gives her about half a
years. income. His rural property yields
that sum, and he owns an immense dis
trict in London as we'll.
Somebody remarks that young ladies
look on boy as nuisance until he has
passed 16, when he generally doubles up
in value each year, until, like a meer-
schaum pipe, he is priceless.
A shrewd old gentleman once said to
his daughter " Be sure, my dear, you
never marry poor man but remember
that the poorest man in the world is one
that has money and nothing else"
Three physicians of New Haven, Conn,
utilize the bicycle as mode of convey
ance in making their daily calls.
The Ell Paso "Times" says: New Mex
leo spent last year for liquor Sc, 485. 900,
and for churches and schools $50, 900.
No case of person having been killed
by lightning while asleep in bed is re-
corded, an English electrician asserts.
It is said that in the works of Shaks-
peare there are more than $50 quotations,
illusions, references and sentiments de-
rived from the Scriptures.
The earliest authentic Chancellor of
Ireland was one Stephen Ridel, who
boosted that he kept portion of Richard
Cour-de-Lion's conscience.
Until within few years the most re-
markable of all Chinese customs were the
public fashionable suicides, conducted
with much pomp, and sometimes actually
under the directions of an officer of the
Empire.
Nine persons out of ten would say iAdt
the actual color of gold aud silver WAS
yellow and white. Let these nine persons
try to match these colors, and they will
be astonished to find that drab silk
matches gold and grey silver.
Teeth are only white by contrast, and
arc very yellow when placed beside Snow,
raw cotton or marble. The gIistening
worries of the negro are, as rule, so ex-
ceedingly yellow that they would disfgure
a white person. It is black skin, hair
and eyes that make them look well.