The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-11
NE VS. AND NOTES.

Trxag fO1StS OF OiOoObOOv SHNNB'
V.lsin il a rival of saccharine.
Gas motors will run Chicago cars.
United States has 423, coo teachers.
\ cradle is rocked by electricity.
In New York women drive CABS.
France has ,455, 900 farm owners.
Ceylon furnishes the finest pearls.
Georgia has a 5-year-old telegrapher.
Slanford's mausoleum cost Sl64,OOO.
Frisco is to have u S1,50O,0OO dwell
ing. 1870
The worlds horses number 62'o9o'-
600.
A Barcelona bank was founded in
140l. 100000.
A Texas ranch feeds 100000
sheep.
America uses the largest locomo-
tives.
Virginia possesses natural ice
house.
skunks are bred on New York
farms.
Uncle Sam leads in iron and steel
output.
St. Petersburg has a room 800 feet
square.
The Umbria's screw propeller weighs
80 tons.
Few Russian trains make % miles
an hour.
Western cattle are worth $4,000
100000.
Clergymen are next to mechanics
as inventors.
European railroads have no grade
crossings.
Artificial ivory is made from con-
densed skim milk.
Iron steamships were first built in
Great Britain in 1913.
Great Britain received 10,057, 900
letters from America last year.
Paper has been made of almost ev-
erything, not excepting iron.
The United States consumes more
paper than any other nation.
Mulhall estimates that the civil
lized nations annually pay $l3, 700, OOO,-
900 for food.
Silver dollars are shipped direct to
China from Mexico by Chinese mer-
chants.
India ink is made in Japan from
the SCOT obtained from burning the
shells Of an oily nut.
The United States acreage in grain
is greater than the entire area of the
German empire.
A hive of 5000 bees should produce
80 pounds of honey every year and
multiply tenfold in five years.
The crop area os Europe and Amer
lea in 1910 was $4,000 900 acres; in
1883 it was S07,000,0 900.
All German wOrkingmen in Russia
Poland have been ordered to learn the
Russian language by January, 1894.
According to the United States
consul at Singapore, one-half of the
worlds tin is mined in the Straits
Settlement.
Thirty thousand tons or 1000 car
loads of "staff" material were used
in the walls of the Worlds Fairbuild-
ings.
Diamond cutters in Holland have
succeeded in cutting stones so small
that it takes 1900 of them to weigh a
karat.
The maize crop of the United
States covers an area greater than
England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland
and Denmark.
A new cigarette machine has been
invented that will feed, roll, paste
and make 10000 perfect cigarettes in
ten hours.
A million dollars in gold coin will
weigh 36S3.S pounds, and million
dollars in silver coin will weigh 5St-
029.9 pounds.
Five methods of anchoring bolts in
stone were recently tried at the WOr-
cester Polytechnic. The best test was
borne by sulphur setting in a straight
hole.
Japanese doctors never present bills
to their patients. They await the pa
TENTS inclination to pay, and then
thankfully accept whatever sum is
offered.
Cast-iron melts at $40 degrees F.,
copper at 25i9 degrees, gold at $3.50
degrees, silver ut 1888 degrees, lead at
6l7 degrees, and cast-tin at 442 de-
grees.
The collection of postage stamps
has brought into existence profess
sional stamp repairer, who for a small
fee, dexterously repairs mutilated
stamps.
In Bengal, India, there are three
harvests reaped every year peas and
oil seeds in April, the early rice crop
IN September, and the great rice crop
in December.
New Bedford can easily afford to
stop catching whales, for, according
to the latest statistics, she is, among
New England cities, second only to
Fall River in cotton spindles.
One of the most original gifts for
the Princess May, who is about ready
to start housekeeping with Prince
George at st. James Palace, London,
is a solid gold mouse trap.
Impartial writers say that the gold
contained in the medals, vessels,
chains and other objects preserved in
the Vatican would make more gold
coins than the whole of the present
European circulation.
A Paris inventor believes that he
can calm the ocean waves around a
vessel by spreading over them thin
cotton or silk net, made unsubmersi-
bic by being dipped in certain
chemical solution.
a new kind of wire for telephone
use, having an northumberland
core with copper bronze envelope, is
being experimental with in Ger
many. 1t is said to have low re-
sistance and great tensile strength.
a pound of rice contains $500 per
cent. of nutritive matter, against SOD
per cent. for wheat, S2.79 per cent. for
rye, up per cent. for oats, S297 per
cent. for corn, %. u Der cent for pOta-