The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

About $1,000 worth of pearls
have been taken from the waters of
Wisconsin streams during the last few
years.
A writer calculates that it takes eight
times the strength to 60 upstairs that is
required for the same distance on the
level.
A large piece of cbristalzcd soda,
weighing 2S4o pounds, from the soda
lake near Laramie, Nebr., will be eN.
hibted at the Worlds Fair
A flea is provided with a genuine
lancet the knife inclosed in a case in
the head Of the insect, the case open
ing sideways, like that of a razor.
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 unknown
depth
Near Tranquebar, on the south
eastern coast of India, there is a species
of fish which not only is able to walk on
level ground but can climb trees,
1t has been estimated that a bell Of
common size, whose sound would pene
trate distance of three to five miles
on shore, could, if submerged in the
sea, be heard over sixty miles.
The Domesday Book, written on
vellum and preserved in the British
Museum, is one Of the oldest and most
curious books possessed by any nation.
1t is complete record Of English land
owners and of their estates, stocks and
other property.
The Adersbach rocks, in Bohemia,
cover some fifteen square miles. They
are formed Of sandstone and inter
spersed with perfect maze of passages,
shut in by smooth walls of such SINH
larity that to keep ones bearings is No
easy matter
There are actually horse marines in
the service of the United States, but
these are merely those officers who are
entitled by rank to ride. If they 60 on
shipboard they do not take their horses
WIN 'Ileln' N"Jo's' ''eu 'e',a''' Ie's
anu 1o'o'le'9 III '"e corps nave "o''eS'
The cOuntry's money circulation has
increased from $726,ooo,o 600 in 1875
to over S., 600, 900, 600 at the present
time. The coinage of silver has in
creased Io" P+'0OC'oo III IoI3 lo
nearly P4iO'OCO'oTo III 1870 L "eI
was no SILVER III inc treasury VI |" q!
S S III 1875 ana 'o.u"y '"5I9 Is
P49o'oo0'OOO'
When there IS tea on the table IN
some OF the hoSpltable homes OF Bar.
bour County, w, Va, the traveller IS
sometimes asked "WlLl you take
wet sweetenin, or dry sweetenln'? |
he elects the former, sorghum moIasse
IS handed to hlm, while II he takes the
i ,al,e', ne Se'S ""P'e sugar III nun
humps
Nut culture IS attracting attention o
the delaware peninsula An eNper
mehter IN the lower part OF inc Stat
mas been successful with EngIlSh wal
nuts Another has 100 Japanes
cheStnuts that have Just come int
bearing ana mas recently set out 59l
more ne IS also experimenting WITT
Ferslan, japanese and EngIISh waInut'
ana with pecan and hazel nuts, In all
ne mas SIX acres IN nut-Dearing trees
One Of the most striking social re
suits that must follow the annexation
of British America to the United State
would be the disappearance of mill
tarsm from the social life Of man
Canadian cities. Wherever there is
post of the British army, there a tin
social arlstocracy IS set up, with tn
army officers and the local officials a
leaders, and there is a pitiful exhibition
of the thirst for recognition at tn
hands of this petty aristocracy.
The material composing the stron
and beautiful blankets woven Inv th
Navajo Indians are now covered wit
anlllne dyes as the Turks now cole
their rugs. 1t costs years Of patier
work to weave one of those blankets 0
their rude looms, and they comman
high prices among the red men as we
as among the white ones A whit
man will have to pay SIoo for goo
specimen, but an Indian must pay f
one two or three ponies, which come
IN the came tbipU