The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-09

arrange for vessels passing each
other.
A French inventor Is responsible
for 4 contriyance which can be
fitted under the keyboard of an
ordinary piano, and sewing Is done
while tunes are being ground ont
on the worries.
The steam power Of the world is
placed at 100000 horsepower.
This is equivalent to the working
capacity of 1,0O0,O00,0O0 men.
which Is more than double the
total working population.
Notwithstanding great advances
made in chemistry and metallurgy,
no other more satisfactory silver
alloy has yet been discovered for
coinage and other purposes than
the alloy used 500 years ago.
Carpenter" IS from a Latin
word signifying the body of 4
cart. The original carpenters were
cartmakers. The country phrase
still is carpenter and Joiner" the
latter word referring to the finer
parts of the work.
A New Jersey man claims to be
the chicken king of the universe. !"
His "eccalobeon," or artificial
Matching establishment, turns out
100000 chickens a year. He keeps
2000 laying hens and buys all the
fresh and fecund eggs offered him.
Ordinary street begging in Paris
is reckoned TO bring in an average
of at least one shilling an hour. A
man in the neighborhood of the
Jarden makes a large income by
affording shelter to them at the
rate of one pence head per night.
Miss Bertha Lamme, &c Spring
field, O., was the trst woman in
the world to receive the degree of
electrical engineer. She led her
class all through the course in
Ohio State University, and has
now accepted a position with the
Westinghouse Electric Company
at Pittsburg.
The total cost Of the Mosque of
st. Sophia, at Constantinople, has
been variously estimated. Ancient
authorities give the sum as equal
to 81 100000 Of either gold or sill
yer, which is not expressly stated.
Gibbon inclines to the latter, and
puts the total cost at the last COM
putation as over $5,O00,O00.
The japanese tatooers not only
picture dragons and flowers and
musmees on the bodies Of their
patrons, but to meet the artistic
demands of Europeans they now
produce in colors an exact photo
graph of any cherished friend whose
image the tatooed person may de-
sire to have constantly with him.
It has been proved that in a
patent lock with an average-sized
key having six steps" each cap
able of being reduced in height &c
times, the number of changes will
be sc, 400; further, that as the drill
pins and the pipes of the 1e, keys s nay
the total number Of changes would
be 2,592,0O0.
English trees seem to be utterly
puzzled by the weather this year.
An old horse-chestnut is now re-
ported with n full crop of nuts on
some Of its branches and a second
crop of blossoms on the others.
Other trees shed their leaves during
the drought in the beginning of
August, and have now put on a
fresh growth Of them.
There is more in a heap of coal
than most persons are aware of.
Besides gas, ton of gas coal will
yield 1900 pounds of coke, 90 gal
Ions of ammonia water, and $40
pounds of coal tar. Destructive
distillation Of the coal tar gives
G9.G pounds of pitch, Il pounds Of
creosote, II pounds of heavy oils,
90 pounds of naphtha yellow, 60
pounds Of naphthaline, 475 pounds
of naphthal, 2.25 pounds of ALTAR
inc, "a pounds Of solvent naphtha.