Daily Honolulu press., 1885-12-25

last year.
There are six Chinese opium dens in
Baltimore.
The debts of Jersey City is $Iao.1o
for each inhabitant.
Kansas City is shocked to find that
it has a6,3r8 more males than females
The annual fire I'll paid by the
United States is estimated at $780,
100000.
Five Governors of New York are
said to have dropped dead of heart
disease.
There are $1,000 people living in
polygamy in Utah and the bordering
Territories.
Cleveland, Ohio, has unique pos
session in the person of a man with
bright purple hair.
New York florists rent plants and
palms to fashionable patrons by the
day, month or year.
An iron pier, 3,r66 feet in length, is
being built at Boston. 1t will be the
longest in the world.
In Thibet the women do all the
hard work, leaving the men to do all
visiting and possipinp.
There are over $4,000 fishermen
engaged in trawling in the North Sea,
off the coast Of England.
A larger ratio of people born in Yer
mont have emigrated than from any
other State in the Union.
Humming-birds are as plentiful as
flies in Brazil, and the natives call
them "be ahores," kiss-howers.
The population Of Minnesota is over
one-third foreign--6S7,I2o are native
born and 427,5I.3 are of foreign birth.
A foot-pound is force which will
raise a pound one foot, and $4,000 of
these foot-pounds make one horse
power.
There is an old lady living in AL
pathe, Ca, who was scalped by an
Indian during the Seminole war, forty
years ago.
In Boston the Adaeyfisey states,
there have been fifty people killed and
eighteen injured by horse railways
within year.
! The State Railway Commission Of
Iowa reports 7,4S7 miles of track in
that State, of which 1880 miles were
CONSTRUCTED within year.
The Japanese catseyes, which are
now fashionable ornaments, are the
polished hinge or thick knob at the
hinge Of pearl oyster.
More than half of the 30, 900, 900
acres of public school lands in Texas
have been used by cattle men without
paying cent for the privilege.
In Boston the law against smoking
in the streets still exists; and any un.
fortunate smoker could be arrested by
any policeman who chose to do so.
Ladies in the Cadet Club of the
State University, Missouri, are said by
the ST. Louis Repubiifan to drill with
guns and to be making excellen,
progress"
Fresno county, CAL, is almost twice
as large as the State of Connecticut
four times as large as Delaware, eight
times as large as Rhode Island and just
the size of Massachusetts.
All told, there were 2,26I collisions
between the Union and Rebel troops
during the war. In this enumeration
the minimum of Union troops is 500
and the maximum 100000.
In olden times whales taken off the
English coast were perquisities Of
royalty. They were eaten by the
Saxons, and even Queen Elizabeth
used to eat porpoise on Fridays.
A Maine newspaper says that the
village "has no church society, nc
temperance society, no gin mill, nc
drunkard and no pauper."
A certain area of one square mile
in the city of New York is said to be the
most populous in the world, and it also
bears the record of being one of the
most wicked spots in the world.
There promises to be something of a
scramble between Chicago and St.
Louis for the honor of celebrating by a
worlds fair in 1899, the 4ooth anniver-
sary Of Columbus voyage Of discovery.
The geological museum at Cam
bridge, Mass, which Agassiz began in
1853 on gift of $50, now repre-
sents an investment in buildings, etc.
Of over $7oo,o 900, and has 5000, 900 o.
invested funds.
The tobacco consumed in the United
States during 1884 is said to have
averaged five pounds for every man
woman and child of the population
and its cost was $500, 900, the value Of
the bread consumed the last census