The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-09
NE VS. AND NOTES.

Roumauia taxes female servants.
London boasts Il laundresses'
union.
England is buying American car
pets.
HolIanders make soft rools from
peat.
a new paup has only one NOV
ing part.
japanese tattoo~rs prick photo
graphs.
New Orleans viii send pig iron
to England.
Russian railroaders must join the
Greek church.
Ten thousand Bohemians work
on the Pacific coast.
Gotham's most skillful lens
maker has only one eye.
The American girl keeps 1850
manufacturers of confectionery.
Europe makes yearly 1,850,O00
square yards of looking-glass.
The German soldiers cooking
utensils are to be made of alumni
ium.
The gold sweepings of the Phila-
delphia mint sell for 1923 900 annu-
ally.
a Rochester man has device
for stopping trolley cars instantane-
ously.
Manufactured gold is worth 81
pennyweight, and any value in ex-
cess of this represents workman
ship.
The Sultan of Morocco has for
hidden the expectation of grain
from his territories after December
9, 1898.
More than %, 900 women are en-
ploye1 In the United States alone
in the decoration of china and pot
terry.
A New York photographer pow
ders the faces Of colored people to
bring out the high lights on the
cheek bones and nose.
For the first six months of 1898
the mines of the United States
mostly gold and silver mines
paid So, 100000 dividends.
There are 40 women lawyers in
the United States, and eight have
earned the right to practice before
the supreme court.
The consolidation and common
working of all the coal interests of
Great Britain is being urged by Sir
George Elliot.
Tacoma wishes to hold a Wash
ington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana,
Alaska and British Columbia In
terstate Fair next fall.
Ugly Chinese women make their
living by acting as professional at
tendants at weddings. thus acting
The contract for the piercing of
the Simpson tunnel in Switzerland
has just been signed, the govern
ment to pay $10,900,OOO.
Montreal has bought the great
Worthington Worlds Fair pump
ing engine, with its capacity of
100000 imperial gallons.
The erection of an electric light
station has been postponed for five
years by German town council,
because improvements may be
made in that time"
The operatives in Japan mills
work every day, there being no
Sunday. The hours range from
twelve to seventeen, but the pace is
slow and there are frequent holt
days.
Costa RIGA and Colombia are to
be connected by telegraph, which
will leave only a small Mexican
connection necessary for a land
line from Maine to South America.
AS a result of depression in the
Canadian lumber trade with Eng
land and the United States, Cana
dian merchants are sending ship
ments to South America and the
Canary Islands.
A wire fence 63 miles long, 8 feet
high, and composed of IA parallel
strands of wire has been placed
around the private park of DR..
Seward Webb, of New York, in the
Adirondacks.
The William H. Webb Home for
aged shipbuilders and technical
school for their children, estab-
lished at Fordham Heights, near
New York city, has, with endow-
ment, cost 100000.
Edison is credited with saying
that women "have more sense
about machinery in one minute
than men have in a whole life
time" and proves the sincerity of
his faith by keeping 200 women on
his payroll.
The incandescent light plant at
the Worlds Fair is capable of |
keeping 10000 16-candle power
lamps alight at once, if required, !
which would be equivalent to the |
of over 100000 |
on bic foot Of r,sc on how