The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-03-01
ITEMS or INTEREST.
Arabs never eat fish.

second.
Only three kinds of reptiles exist
in Ireland.
The Swiss fine voters who remain
away from the polls on election day
Lake Baikal, in Siberia, has the
enormous depth of nearly 5000 feet
A genius proposes to transmit pow
er from Niagara to run the Worlds !
Fair machinery.
1t is reported there lives near Ma
con, Ga, man 81 years old who was
never in debt.
The military coats worn by ladies
have TO be padded on the shoulders
to look properly fierce.
Chinese is said to be the ideal Ian
guage for the telephone on account
of its regular rising and falling in
Elections.
When meat is broiing it will cook
more quickly if frying-panis turned
over it. Frying is fastened in the
same way.
Committees are being formed in
Rome to encourage public amuse-
ments for the people, who, in imita-
ton Of their ancestors, still cry for
bread and recreation.
A plant is to be erected in Phila-
delphia for the manufacture of cellu-
lose, a material to be used for lin
ing for ships. Cellulose will absorb
eight times its weight of water.
1t is very wrong of course to be in
quisitive, but if there were not some
inquisitive people in the world, what
lot Of interesting gossip other peo-
pie would have to miss.
The public schools of Dundee,
Scotland, have decided to make the
highland fling and the strathspey of
Tullochgorum and other forms of
dancing a part of the curriculum.
In Persia, where the Government
has monopoly of tobacco, the chief
authorities at Kuhela proclaimed an
edct against smoking, and ordered
the people to break their pipes.
A German journalist has invented
an electric whip for the purpose of
training wild animals. The sting of
the new whip is said to be more effec
tive than the old-fashioned lash.
The enormous growth of the city
of London is shown by the fact that
its population is given as $685. 900,
or considerably greater than that of
Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome COM
bined.
Alfred Cole died at his home in
Springdale, KY, recently, of the
grip, aged 115. He distinctly re-
membered the Inauguration of Pres
dent Washington in 1889. Mr.. Coles
mother was 1l3.
John Davis, the last survivor of
the crew of the United States steamer
Jamestown, that carried the relief
supplies to Ireland during the famine
forty-three years ago, lives, at Deer
Isle, Me.
In Toronto at the meeting of the
Literary Society there was a debate
whether women should be admitted
to the legal profession. The votes
for and against were equal, but the
President decided in the negative.
The British cuckoo and the Ameri-
can COW blackbird never build nests
of their own, but content themselves
with depositing their eggs in the
nests of other and smaller represent
atives of the feathered tribe.
In order to prevent the accidents
that so often occur when life-boats
are lowered from the side of a ship
there has been invented raft that
supports the boat, and from winch 1t
is launched in reaching the water.
Yeast, it is said, has been success
fully tried for typhoid fever, and in
cases where it has been used no re-
lapses have followed. 1t is supposed
that the yeast destroys the bacilli in
the intestines and so prevents rein
fiction.
Berlin police authorities are trying
to devise a method for the more
thorough cleansing of beer glasses
in restaurants. The city health ply
sicians say that disease is spread by
the glasses washed as they are at
present.
The aboriginal Australian adopts
brutality forcible mode of wooing.
When he wants wife he looks about
for likely helpmate, and finding one
to his liking, knocks her down with
his club and carries her home.
In some of the rugs from the Ori-
ent the knots of the thread are so
fine that they cannot be seen by the
eye. No machinery has been intro.
duced there yet for making rugs or
carpets, each tuft and knot being
tied by deft fingers.
The death-rate in Marseilles,
France, has gradually grown to such
an extent that it now exceeds the
number of hirthS The citv has