The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-04
SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST.

London was the first city to use coal,
Lucifer matches came into use about
1884
Births in New York city average 1 100
a week.
There are 17,O5s county iails in the
United States.
A society of grammarians was founded
in Rome in 276 B. G.
Niagara Falls are travelling backward
at the average rate of nine feet year.
The planet Neptune has the longest
year, consisting of more than $4,000 of
our days.
One pound of cork is amply sufficient
to support a man of ordinary size in the
water.
Latin is used in all the civilized coun-
tries of the world for physicians pre-
scriptions.
In 1851 the invention of milling the
edges of coins, to prevent slipping, was
introduced.
Artificial ice was first manufactured
by the use of chemical mixtures in the
year 1888.
The use of the pillory as a method of
punishment was continued in England
as late as 1887.
"Old Mans Fall' in the River Quetaro,
British Guiana, is 74l feet high and
about 800 feet wide.
The area of the United States is 3,602,-
J9j square miles; British Empire II, 20S,
5O6; Canada, 3,456, $50.
Moscow Is said to have l,706 "big
BELLS" the smallest of which weighs
5000 pounds and the largest 443,772
For thousands of years the entire world
depended on the honey bee for all the
sweetness used in cookery.
Hriberias, Palestine, has meteorologi-
cal observatory situated 6S2 feet below
the level of the Mediterranean Sea.
In the time of war France is prepared
to put $40 out of every / 900 of her popu-
lation in the field; Germany, 80; Russia,
2l0.
The largest theatre in the world is the
Grand Opera House of Paris 1t GOV ers
more than three acres of ground and
cost 100000
The Thlingit tribe of Alaska number
$500 persons. For generations they
have spent the greater part of their time
in caves.
world to illuminate its streets with cleo
tricity. The wires were placed in posi-
ton in 1881. 1t has an appropriate
name.
Sixty-eight eggs of the great aux are
known to be in existence, two of which
are in America, aud the rest in Europe.
When the one was sold, in 1888, it
brought $l,100.
Mary Anderson Navarro has grown
stout.
Queen Victoria signs about $4,000
documents year.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is
paid $4,000 a year.
Mrs. Childs, widow of George w.
Childs, will probably make her home
in New York.
Max ORell says he has found only
two nations where women are leaders
France and America.
Though Stonewall Jackson was a
man Of deep religious feeling he inva-
riably fell asleep when in church.
Manuel Garcia, who taught Jenny
Lind, is still teaching, although he
will begin his ninetieth year March
18th.
Inc rope, always or delicate physi-
que, is now so fragile that he seems
to have only enough body left to
house his soul.
The favorite lecture of Erastus Wi
man, and one which he was fond of
delivering TO young men in Y. NJ. C. A.
halls was "How to Get Rich"
Johann Strauss, the composer of the
"Blue Danube" and other famous
values, is thin, emaciated old man,
with rheumatism and the govt.
Princess Victoria, daughter of the
Prince of Wales, is twenty-five years
old, healthy and of cheerful tempera-
ment, with remarkable energy and
resources.
The Empress of Russia wears every
thing small and neat, to harmonic with
her delicate personality. Pale blue,
mauve and green are her favorite colors.
j. s. T. Stranahan of Brooklyn, the
only living American who has a public |
monument of himself, drives out every
pleasant afternoon to Prospect Park and |
takes look at his statue.