The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-03
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=di1 10 WelSl ninety pOuHi-y NeafS
No hat aud No. s shoe.
L. d. Heard, of Washington, Ga,
owns Italian violin that Is nearly
go years old.
Rooms rent for office is 81 a square
foot per year around Madison square,
New York.
A Cincinnati boys earns as high as
50 to 50 day by singing popular airs
on the street cars.
The first hoopskirt was worn by
New York lady in 174O. She was ar
rested by the police.
For fifty-two consecutive miles on
the Boston and Albany Railroad
there is not a single grade crossing.
A man in Kansas has a dog called
Christopher Columbus, and the num-
Der of its license is 1892.
For 200 years the paper from which
Bank of England notes are made has
| been manufactured at Laverstoke in
Hampshire.
| = The oldest artesian we'll in Europe
is found at Lillers, France. From its
mouth water has flowed uninter-
rupted for 746 years.
4 Both the Kurds and Cossacks be-
| lieve that Ararat is guarded by an
unearthly being, and that no man
| can ascend the peak and live.
| In Missouri a husband cannot de-
| sert his wife without committing a
penitentiary offense unless they have
lived together at least ten years.
The membership of Masons in the
| United States is about $4,000, Odd
Fellows 100000, knights of Labor
297, AIS, Knights of Pythias 100000.
For the first time in the history of
Belgium, it is said, the principle of
monetary compensation for breach of
promise of marriage has just been
established.
The settlers on the Quillayute
prairies in Washington are afforded
fine sport in thousands of wild geese
that come there in the fall and make
the region their winter home.
There is a superstition that if man
counts funeral carriages member of
his family will die. There are many
cases in which this shocking result
has seemed to follow this apparently
harmless action.
With nothing but a jackknife
Adolph Sjohrim, a Marquette Swede,
has constructed the frame of clock
representing an ancient castle. He
used various kinds of wood, and work.
ed on the job for two years.
I
covered that vegetarians have clear
compilations, and have either re-
nounced the use of meat entirely, or
partake of it sparingly. Lady Paget,
wife of the British Ambassador at the
| Austrian court, is one of the recent
converts to vegetarianism.
The Chinese are inveterate gamb-
! lers. 1t is said that when a Chinese
has lost everything else he will even
stake his finger joints. If he loses he
| chops n joint off with Ratchet, dips
the stump in oil and resumes play. If
he loses again he chops off another
joint and so on till all are gone.
| The large and valuable collection of
| etc., which the late Ralph Butterbula
of Kansas City bequeathed, together
with $4,000, to Dartmouth College,
has arrived at its destination.
The far and "frontier" west does not
appear to be peopled exclusively by
| tough citizens. At Winnemucca,
New, jury was formed lately of men
whose average age was %, who were
all total abstainers from drink, none
| smoked cigarettes and none had ever
chewed tobacco.
Mime. Allemandi, who died short
time ago in Paris, left $4,000 to the
Swiss government, $4,000 to the city
| of Basel, $4,000 to the Canton Basel
and $4,000 to the Canton Solothurn.
| The interest of the money is to be
| used in paying for the wedding out
fits of the daughters of poor Swiss Ia
| borers.
Sea fowls eggs have one remarkable
popularity, they are nearly cOnical in
form, broad at the base and sharp at
| the point, SO that they will only roll
in circle. They are laid on the bare
edges of high rocks, from which they
would almost surely roll off save for
this happy provision of nature.
A dead bullfrog owned by resident
of New Haven, Conn.,, is claimed to be
one of the oldest and largest frogs in
this part of the word. The animal is
old, and measures eighteen inches
from head to foot, twelve inches across
the back and weighs four pounds.
An inmate of the Poorhouse at Peru,
Ind, who died a short time ago, was
about As years old, and was born, it is
said, with almost every popularity of
a sea lion. She is stated to have had a
piercing cry like that animal, and
moved her head from one side to the
other almost continually. 1t is further
| reported that she was never able to
walk.
Steel tubes for boilers are being
largely used, to the displacement of
copper. This movement started a
few years back when a copper "ring'
raised the price of that metal abnor-
mally for time. A three-eighths
inch steel tube, with half inch bore,
can be drawn to sustain a pressure of
| 1000 pounds per square inch; the cost
is less than that for copper, and the
durability is quite as great.
Alexander the great, the conqueror
of the world, died when he was 81
| years old. Maurice of SaXony, the
greatest captain and statesman of his
time, died at the same age. The Duke
of Weimar, one of Adolphus' generals,
died at the age of So, while Gustavus
Adolphus died when he was SO. Pas
cal, the great French writer, and Ra-
! phael, the great italian artist, both
died at 81.
| NJ Moissan, member of the Acade-
mie DIES Sciences, has produced
number of microscopic specimens of
true diamonds from ordinary carbon
which he had crystallized by means
of an electrical furnace invented by
| himself. Results were obtained by
| dissolving pure carbon, obtained by
! the combustion of sugar, in an ingOt
| of iron heated to 5000 deg. centigrade,