The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-09

Siam has one railway.
An electric stove is a success.
Boston had 763 fires last year.
Idaho boasts petrilied forest.
A Japanese god is 60 feet high.
Virginia has negro lady doctor.
South Africans use Pullman cars.
Londoners eat Australian butter.
High license at st. Paul is $1,000.
Marseilles is the human hair mart
Sedan chairs are made in London.
London talks Of tricycle. railroad.
Savannah reports flying machine.
The artificial gem industry is thriv-
ing.
Reindeer meat is canned in Nor
| way.
Australia has made its first locomo-
tive.
Won Moltke's baton is worth $780,
900.
London buys Australian rabbit
skins.
London is to have an I15O foot
tower.
Phoenix, Ariz., reports the richest
mine.
The Mersey handled 21,6s7 ships
in 1872.
In France women act as station
agents.
Electricity is displacing hydraulic
power.
a ton of diamonds is worth $751;
100000.
Chino ,,,aoufaot1r. - +I,o oIjost -,
dustry.
Forests employ 100000 families in
Germany.
Brooklyn has an 116 foot belt 6
feet wide.
Worlds Fair guides charge SO cents
an hour.
A Frenchman makes diamonds by
electricity.
Newcastle, Wyo., has mineral
soap mine.
st. Petersburg will have $14,0O0,-
900 bridge.
a Venezuelan gold mine has yielded
$50, 100000.
Chicago exhibits 10000 pound
block of salt.
American savings banks contain
81 1854, 000,0
The Greenland whale has a heart a
yard in diameter.
Michigan raises 15,000 tons of pep
permint annually.
South Americans get brandy from
watermelon juice.
Thirty boilers operate Machinery
building, Chicago.
The United Kingdoms annual fish
production is 324, 900 tons.
West Harrisville, Mich, has a Chi
nese candidate for postmaster.
In New York the average number
of persons to dwelling is 49,.
A gold coin depreciates 5 per cent.
in value in is years of constant use.
Gloves with separate fingers were
unknown before the twelfth century.
A Frenchman is experimenting
with a monograph upon the language
of hens.
A single piece of copper weighing
nine tons was once taken from a
Michigan mine.
1t is estimated that Butte, Mon,
will produce 10000, 900 pounds of
copper this year.
Cleveland has larger proportion of
foreign born population than any
other large American city.
Green Meek IS a Kentuckian who
runs newspaper, a hotel, postoffice
and a line of steamboats,.
Greek temples erected in honor of
the superior deities were always I'M
covered or open to the sky.
Many medieval churches were orr
ginally constructed to serve, also,
when occasion required, as fortresses.
The prohibition town of Portland,
Me-, uses S76, 1000 worth of liquor every
year for medicinal and mechanical
purposes"
Statistics are said to show that the
introduction of machinery into manu-
factories has decreased the number of
the unemployed.
A ton of gold is worth S6O7, 799. 21;
of pure silver, S37, 704.S "a; a million
dollars in gold weighs 36S5.S pounds;
of silver, $500 pounds.
More factories for the making of
handles for implements have been
established in the south during the
past year than in any five previous
years.
A Chicago man has constructed q
checker-board in which there are
2S,O7O separate pieces of wood glued
together with the finest art. It is
valued at $1,000.
A cake of natural crystallized soda,
! said to weigh 2S40 pounds, taken from
| the Downey salt lakes, near Laramie,
will be among Wyoming exhibits at
the Worlds Fair.
| A Paris inventor believes that he
can calm the ocean waves around a
vessel by spreading over them a thin
cotton or silk net, made unsubmers-
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