The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-02-01
Business and Industrial.


phones.
There are $1,000 liquor-dealers in
Paris.
Lime is burned with oil, instead
of wood.
There are twenty-three canneries
in Oregon.
Women serve as bank cashiers in
Finland.
The money in circulation per
capita is $24.32.
The Scandinavians in Chicago ex-
coed 10000.
There is great economy in cook
ing by electricity.
The new souvenir coins are legal
tender for 80 cents each.
China's postal service is carried
on by private companies.
About 10000 gross of pens are
produced from ton of steel.
The silver coinage of 1891 exceed
ed by $,500,O0O that of 1892.
There is skunk farm in New
York, and another in Missouri.
Nearly 1000 varieties of apples are
grown in the United States.
Germany is building paper houses,
Japan has thousands of them.
A locomotive that consumes its
own smoke has made it's appearance
In Douglas county, Col, $4,000
fruit trees are irrigated by one COM
pany.
The principle of the bicycle is ap-
piled to the propelling of small
boats.
The rice crop in the South this
year is estimated to be 225,O00,000
pounds.
The forests of Germany pay an
annual government revenue of $685.
100000.
France sent almost 2OOOO,OOO bot
ties of champagne to the United
States last year.
The anthracite coal-felds produce
more than 45,0O0,0O0 tons of coal
every year.
1t is said that 1000 rose trees are
required to supply two ounces of
altar of roses.
In only thirty-six of Oregon's new
orchards there are 100000 young
fruit trees.
1t is said that the iron-pipe foun-
dries of the United States have form
ed $2O,OO0,OOO trust.
Edison has 200 women in his en-
ploy making the most delicate cleo
trical instruments.
Some $4,000 lambs are being
fed and fattened in the Cache la
Poudre Valley, Col, this winter.
The real estate brokers in New
York City sold property worth in
the aggregate a5,OOO,OOO last year.
A single row of pearls as large as
peas, and perfectly round, were sold
recently in Paris for 100000.
The time is not far distant when
a paper bound book, well printed
and illustrated, will be sold for 5
cents.
A combined knife and fork for
one-armed men is being manufac-
tured and should be very popular
at small picnics.
Denmark, France and neighbor-
ing countries sell about $50,0OO,OOO
worth of dairy produce annually to
England.
The silver output of Aspen, Col,
the last year was 9,101, 100 ounces, as
against 100000 ounces the pre-
ceding year.
The buttons of the wedding dress
of New York millionaire's daugh-
ter recently married, were made of
jewels and cost 500 each.
Commercial travellers support two
thirds of the country hotels, to say
nothing of instructing the proprie-
tors how to manage them.
The feeces of ten goats and the
work of several men for half year
are required to make genuine cash
mere shawl yard and a half wide
1t is estimated that the approx
mate cost of cable which it is pro-
posed to lay in the Pacific between
North America and Australasia, will
be about $1O,OOO,0O0.
Colorado's total mineral produc-
ton during 1892 was valued at $41,-
865, 124, of which $28, ISL, I'LL were in
silver. Her total mineral output in
1891 was $33,548,934.
The expectation of American beef
to England through all seasons OF
the year has, it is said, caused re-
duction of AZ cents a pound to the
British consumer.
At Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
alone 100 men and women are EN-.
ployed in the lobster industry. Five
million is the annual catch, which
represents $180,OO0 in value.
The value of the pig-iron produc-
ed in the United States is now great
er than the value of gold, silver and
copper combined. The value of the
coal product is greater than that OF
pig-iron.
1t is estimated that about $780,.
100000 year is now being paid By
American citizens to the owners OF
steam and sailing vessels under for,
eign flags, and chiefly under the
British flag.
Irrigation is doing wonders in that
broad region which some aliases