The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-26
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The order of ST. Catharine was es-
tablished in 1714.
Chicago has twenty-five general and
sixteen special hospitals.
Love is discovered easier than a hole
in the stocking.-Venetian.
There are $4,000 more women than
men in the State of New York
The favor of woman makes
knight of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The rainfall in a year at New Or
leans ranges from 90 inches TO 20
inches.
The saline matter held in solution
in sea water comprises one-thirtieth of
its weight.
The water of the Dead Sea yields
about two pounds to the gallon of sa
line substances.
In cubic foot of sphorescent sea
water there have been found $4,000
living creatures.
The water of the Mediterranean con-
tainS greater proportion of salt than
that of the ocean.
Knights Bachelors is the Oldest and
was formerly the most distinguished
order of knighthood.
A census taken in 1867 showed that
there were then in New Hampshire 3S4
male and 249 female slaves.
1t is estimated that the water of the
whole ocean contains in solution over
100000 tons of pure silver.
The sole business of every inhabi-
tant of the sea is to feed himself, and
all attend strictly to business.
1t is estimated that more gold and
silver have been sunk in the sea than
are now in circulation on the earth.
1t is estimated that two years are
required for the Gulf water to travel
from Florida to the coast of Norway.
A Warren, Ohio, man dreamed he
would shortly meet with a violent
death. Within twenty-four hours aft
er he was run over and killed by a
locomotive.
Statistics of life insurance people
show that in the last twenty-five years
the average of mans life has increased
per cent, Or two whole years, from
41.9 to 439.
Caffarelli thought so much of his
voice that once when challenged to
fight duel he refused on the ground
that he had no right to expose to any
risk the life of so great a singer.
The ashes of coal from the mines of
the Transvaal Coal Trust and other
companies in South Africa have been
analysed recently and found to con-
tain over nine pennyweights of gold
to the ton.
1t is estimated that the death rate
of the world is siXty-seven per minute,
and the birth rate seventy minute,
yet this seemingly light percentage of
gain suffices to give net increase of
population of 100000 souls annually.
Henry" said Mrs. Faddington to
her husband, Il wonder if it wouldn't
be a good idea for us to raise our own
vegetables and save what they cost in
market" NO." replied Henry. Times
are too hard; we've got to econo-
miZe.'
A firm in London, England, have
placed on the market an electric fire
radiator, consisting of a wrOught-iron
basket filled with fire-clay balls, which
partly hide a colOred incandeScent
lamp. The illusion afforded by this
arrangement is that of glowing coal
fire in an open CRATE.
A manuscript conclusion to Gogols
Dead Souls" is said to have been dis
covered recently at Kaluga, in Rus
Sld- OIOSOl MS OWN original
himself in a fit of disgust, but a copy
remained in the possession of the man
who copied for him, who is still alive,
and has sent it to Russian journal.
Dog farming is carried on extern
sively in China. There are thousands
of large breeding establishments scat
tered over the northern districts of
Manchuria and Mongolia, and no dog
skins in the world can compare with
those that come from these parts as
regards either size, quality or length
of hair.
There is a benevolent society in
Russia called The Lovers of Zion"
the purpose of which is to encourage
and assist emigrants from that coun-
try to Palestine, and which has already
sent more than 10000 families, who
have bought or taken up the idle land
in and around Jerusalem, and are Gull
tivating the olive.
Prince Bismarck was very fond of
the students of the German universe
ties. He believed that they were the
most loyal subjects the Emperor pos
sessed, and the old statesman looked
to the students for the preservation Of
the Empire that he did so much to es-
tablish. There was quite vein of ro
nance in Bismarck's makeup, and he
loved to talk of the DAYS when he was