The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-30

Horse clippers cost Sl20 pair.
The longest bridge Is 9l44 feet.
Washington has black cat farm.
The first rope was made in 1911.
A Krupp gun fires fourteen miles.
England imports eggs from Russia.
Charles V. carried 29-pound watch.
Illinois makes aluminium slate pen
ellis.
A Paris telegraph Office employs 900.
In 1872 the United States laid 1904
miles of railroad.
Maryland has an electric freight
line.
The pneumatic tube dates from
1867.
London eats 100000 sheep year.
a tobacco plant yields $50, 600 seeds.
Holland has $3.50 miles of railroads.
France boasts 9OO0 telegraph bu-
reaus.
British India licenses 1911 opium
shops.
Canada railroads stretch 10, 5S8 miles.
Aluminium has cen discovered at
Daluth.
Morrice, Mich, has a 9year-old
telegrapher.
Uncle Sam has twenty-five spirit
ualistlc papers.
Great Britain has 10000 trained
nurses.
A London house is papered with
stamps.
New Workers want bread sold by
weight.
Mems corsets find lively sale in
England.
Bricks are made Of plaster of paris
and cork.
Mice skin is the fabric in Russian
coat.
An ocean racer uses $4,000 in coal
each trip.
1t costs p cents to put up can of
tomatoes.
Queen Victoria's crown is worth
Sl,2OO,OOO
Uncle Sam has S1,61O, OOO 600 in cir
eulation.
Last years wheat crop was 519, $780,
600 bushels.
williamsport has the biggest sus-
pender mill.
Wisconsin streams yield 800, 900 in
pearls year.
England's encouragement gets
$4,000 year.
Melbourne has buff the first Aus
tralian locomotive.
AT Plant City, Fla, strawberries
are five cents a quart.
England used the telephone Sc, 409,-
OOO.times in 1872.
The tail of the beaver gave the hint
for the trowel of the mason.
IT,
chimney sweeps wear plug hats.
There is railroad in Peru that is
15,63S feet above the level of the sea.
Six ounces of gold are sufficient to
gid a wire that would encircle the
earth.
Fully % per cent. OF all the cham
payne made is lost by the bursting OF
bottles.
The King of Italy, like his famous
father, Victor Emanuel, only takes
one meal a day.
Senator Stanford has vineyard OF
$500 acres, the largest, 1T is said, IN
America.
tits estimated that there were 49,
573 papers published in the United
States and Canada last year.
Texas permits heightened convicts
the convict camps.
Two morning newspapers in
Raleigh, N. c., are published by the
same staff and at the same office.
A dollar loaned for 100 years and
compounded at "a per cent. will
amount in that time 10 S2,551, 799, 404.
The largest tomb in the world is the
Pyramid of Cheops-461 feet high and
covering Is acres Of ground.
The care of the forests in Germany
supports 20O,O 900 families and involves
an annual expenditure of S40,OOO,OOO.
In 1720 the first clocks were intro
duced, to be placed in churches, the
hourglass having been previously
used.
Gold can be beaten 700 times thin
ner than ordinary printing paper; one
ounce can be made to cover 1850
square feet.
The highest railroad in the United
States is the Denver and Rio Grande,
at Marshall Pass-I0, $50 feet above
the sea.
The largest church in the world is
st. Peters in Rome; the smallest
church 10 feet square, in the Isle of
Man.
A newspaper may be sent from any
part of the United States to Stanley
Falls, Africa, 1000 miles beyond Stan
ley pool, for cents.
For several years past nearly all the
slate pencils used throughout the
United States have been made at one
factory in Charlottesville, Va.
Biologists consider kerosene to he
animal oil. Hence what we burn in
lamps is the remains of long extinct
monsters of the earth.
The largest gothic church in the
world is the Cologne cathedral. Its
foundation stones were laid in 1248
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 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 a
Intending bureGi." on the grounds.
She thinks that a great many men
may lose button or some women
tear their gowns.