The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-24


nifying glass to read.
In some places in Berlin an in
surance coupon for $500, good for
seven days from date of sale, goes
with every six-cent drink of liquor.
The 100000 people of South
America prefer yerba mate, a drink
made from the leaves of the yerba
tree.
Conan Doyle made no less than
a dozen fruitless attempts before
finding a purchaser for Micah
Clarke"
About 1920 the use of logarithms
was introduced into problems of
navigation by the famous Edmund
Gunter.
The standard English manual of
navigation is "Raper's British Nav
igator." 1t is approved by the
Admiralty.
The first United States naviga-
ton laws were passed by Congress
in 1892, and, for the most part, are
still in force.
In 1893 no less than 1851 period
icals devoted mainly or solely to
literature were published in the
United States.
In 1892 there were 1895 vessels
of all kinds built in the United
States, with an estimated tonnage
of 100000.
Sir Samuel Baker, the traveller
and explorer, who died recently in
England, was knighted in 1867 af-
ter his return from discovering Lake
Albert Nyanza.
Freeman B. Andrews, of Oxford,
Me-, claims to have had in success
full operation telephone line twen-
ty years before the invention was
heralded by Prof. Bell.
Pamphlets owe their name to
Pamphielia, a Greek lady, who left
behind her a number of scrap
books containing notes, receipts,
anecdotes and memoranda.
The minis of the United States
coined $66,934,749 in gold, silver
and copper last year. This is just
half as much coin as was in circu-
lation in the world in 1900.
The building with the greatest
altitude is the Alpine club house
on Mount Rosa, in the Alps. It's
foundation stones are exactly
10000 feet above the sea level.
Robbing the ostrich of its feath-
ers is cruel operation. The feath-
ers are imbedded so tightly in the
flesh that each quill is covered with
blood when it is wrenched out.
It is estimated that an average
of more than 1000 vessels and
10000 lives are lost in the sea
every year, the value of ships and
cargoes being about 800, OOO,O 900.
Wing was originally the nick
name of the peasantry of the west
ern lowlands of Scotland, said by
some to be derived from word or
sound used by them in driving
their horses.
A building permit has been grant
ed in New York for a business edi-
flee four feet nine inches by fifteen
feet eight inches. 1t is to be used
as an Italian fruit store, and the
plans were drawn up by a regular
architect.
Camels are not like horses. If a
horse does not want to do anything,
we make him. If a camel does not
want to do anything, he leaves it
undone. No amount of coaxing or
cruelty will make him bulge.
The bee, in singing, leaves the
sting in the wound, and if this be
not removed, it tends to imbed it
self deeper in the sore. Hence, the
first thing to be done is to extract
the sting, which can be done by
Selling it with the ends of the fin
gers.
The word "harem" in Turkey is
generally applied to any place
Intended solely for women. The
end of the Turkish railway carriage
curtained off from the rest is called
the harem. So is the ladies' cabin
on board ship, and the latticed gal
lery in a mosque.