The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-13

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of silver, 5S,S29.9 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 o
checker-board in which there are
2S,070 separate pieces of wood glued
together with the finest art. 1t is
valued at $1,000.
The largest cut stones in the world
are in the Temple of the Sun at Baal-
bee. Many are more than sixty feet
long, twenty feet broad and of I'M
known depth.
Between the years 1880 and 1890
there were $780, 200, 900 new life in
surance written in this country and
but S1,G00, 0OO,0O0 in the whole British
Empire.
San Francisco has one saloon to
every SO persons, Albany is second on
the list with one to every ITO persons,
and New Orleans one to every III
persons.
The largest bell in the world is in
the Kremlin, Moscow. Its height is
81 feet, ~ inches; its circumference
81 feet, 4 inches, and its weight is esti-
mated at 443, 772 pounds.
It will scarcely be believed that
wheat is sold in the United Kingdom
under nearly 200 different systems of
weight. There is almost as much di-
versity in regard to barley and oats.
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
vessel by spreading over them a thin
cotton or silk net, made unsubmers-
ible by being dipped in certain
chemical solution.
1t is said to cost less to send the pro-
duct of an acre of wheat from the
States of Dakota to England than it
does to manure an acre of land in
England so that it can grow good
wheat.
The largest gothic church in the
world is the Cologne cathedral. Its
foundation stones were laid in 1913
and the edifice was completed in 1880.
The most expensive fur is the skin
of the black fox of Kamschatka.
These animals are scarce and hard to
kill, and a single skin sells for about
$1,000.
Some curious things will be seen on
the Worlds Fair grounds if all the
cranks have their way. One good
woman from Kansas wants to open
amending bureau on the grounds.
She thinks that great many men
may lose button or some women
tear their gowns.
According to its accredited repre-
sentative, the Sole Leather Trust
stands for not less than SIZE, 900, 900 Of
capital, and controls every avenue
through which tanners derive their
supplies.
The current year is the centennial
of the cotton-gin. Eli Whitney in
vented it in 1898. 1t is said to have
done more toward the making Of the
South than any other one thing ex-
cept the cotton.
Stephenson, south of Liverpool, and
opened for traffic in 1882, remained in
use, almost as the great inventor left
it, until a short time ago, when a new
line was constructed.
At the beginning of this year there
were $40, 600, 900 in gold and $251, 40O,-
600 in silver in the vaults of the Bank
of France. 1t would require 6S3 cars
of capacity of ten tons each to move
the metals.
Within thirty years the worlds
annual product of silver has increased
from $4,000, to about $4,000, 900.
Thirty years ago the United States
produced less than $5,0O0,000 and to-
day over $6O,OOO,OOO year.
Farmers of Mexico use oxen of one
color in the morning and of another
color in the afternoon. They have no
reason for doing so beyond the fact
that their forefathers did it, and they
conclude it must be the right thing
to do
Thirty-one million four hundred
and seventy-five thousand and nine
teen barrels of domestic beer were
consumed in the United States last
year-abOut half barrel for each in
habitant, if it had been equally
divided and all had "drunk fair.h
4 Prussian official mining expert
has made investigations of the coal
strata of the world, and expresses the
belief that the coal deposits of Aus
tria- Hungary, France and Belgium
will be exhausted in five centuries at
most.
Holland has in view the vast pro-
ject of draining the Zuyder Zee,
whereby it is hoped to rescue for Gull
tivation territory almost as extern
sive as the Duchy of Brunswick. 1t
has been estimated that this under
taking will cost about 500, 100000.
After Southampton, now Cardiff
will try for part Of the transatlantic
trade. Cardiff is going to spend ST.
600, 900 TO improve her docks and har-
Dor, build new railway connections
and generally bid for the American
passenger traffic, which Liverpool has
had done up to this time.
The capital invested in the manu-
facture of rubber goods throughout the
United States exceeds SIS, 900, 900.
The daily production of rub