The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-08

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A piano contains mile of wire.
Kansas leads in egg production.
Uncle Sam boasts $4,000 Syrians.
Germany makes paper stockings.
The world has 4965 daily papers.
A Paris store has 100 detectives.
A Paris kitchen employs 60 cooks.
There is an automatic boiler
cleaner.
England is building an $4,000
SHY.
Uncle Sam leads in paper consump-
ton.
Germany has half the worlds
breweries.
New York has 3OO,5OO working
women.
America uses the largest locomo-
tives.
Electrically driven tools grow in
favor.
The metal ruthenium costs $3.50
grain.
Germany has 100000 agricultural
workers.
Germany has 100000 savings
| bank depositors.
Westerbrook, Me, has the biggest
paper mill.
Kentucky leads the South in to-
bacco production.
Electricity resuscitates the appar-
emily drowned.
One trip costs an ocean steamer
$1,000 for coal.
Woonsocket, r. l., has the biggest
rnbber factory.
Austro-Hungary papers are print
ed in fifteen languages.
LIE Petit Journal circulates 100000
copies daily.
Bicycle manufacturers employ 49,
coo at Coventry, Eng.
Rice paper is made from a filthy
plant called tung-tsua, found in
China, Corea and Japan.
More women are employed by the
English government than by the gov
eminent of any other country.
The deepest English colliery at
present is Moss colliery, near Ashton
under-Lyne, which is sunk 1920 feet.
The largest piece of copper even
taken out Of the Michigan Upper
Peninsula weighed about nine tons.
Diamond cutters in Holland have
succeeded in cutting stones so small
that it takes 1900 of them to weigh
karat.
A novel insurance company has
been started in France, with the OBJ
ject of supplying girls with dowries
when they marry.
The longest single span of wire in
the world is used for telegraph line
over the river Kistuah, in India. 1t is
5000 feet long.
The largest piece of mica in the
world was recently taken 1T of a
North Carolina quarry. 1t measures
90 by 16 inches.
Alaska produced S1,000,000 in gold
last year and California $12000,O0O.
The gold product of the United States
was $33,O0O,O00.
The tripograph is the name of a
combined typewriter, cash register
and calculator invented by Il young
man at Ellensburg, Wash.
Four years ago borax was worth 81
a pound. The supply was increased
and tie price diminished by the dis
covery of vast quantities of it in
death Valley"
The largest bell in the world is in
the Kremlin, Moscow It's height is
81 feet Al inches; its circumference,
67 feet 4 inches; its weight is esti-
mated at 443,772 pounds.
The production of mercury reaches
about $4,000 to $4,000 frascos a year.
The frascos are enormous bottles of |
cast iron, which contain four arrobes
of about Is pounds each.
1t is said to cost less to send the |
product of an acre of wheat from |
Dakota to England than it does to |
manure an acre of land in England |
so that it can grow good wheat.
a New York woman has been |
awarded $4,000 damages for injuries
received in 1887, when an intoxicated |
car conductor forced her into seat |
when she asked to be let off the car.
Newmansville, Fla, is one of the
q deserted villages" of the South.
Half century ago 1t was thriving
town with 1000 inhabitants, but now
there are only dozen families left.
One million and half men work
in the coal mines of the world. Of
these England has $4,000; United
States, 100000 Germany, 2S5,000
Belgium, 100000 Russia, $4,000.
The worlds miners of metals number
4 100000.
Three editors of Ell Democratic,
city of Mexico paper recently sup
pressed for seditious utterances,'
have each been fined $500 and "sent
up" for seven months. Then the
foreman of the composing room got
five months and 5000, and the proof
reader four months and $3.50.
Corn husks boiled in caustic soda
are being utilized for the manufac
ture Of paper. The cooking process
results in the formation of a spongy, !