Varieties.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 362, 16 April 1903, Page 2

Varieties.

8&N France the number of men and djp v woin6B !t is 1 more nearly equal than 3JK: any cbunlry in the world, I . '

■ „ In some parts of Japan women tattoo their face's, so'as to-make them appear like men with whiskers. In South America, it is said, the public are as well supplied with English books as many English'owbb; ij O '/■•' t In Russia young women wtio attend the universities and high schools, are not allowed to wear corsets. ;

There are. no fewer than twelve thou-; sand curates in the Church of England/ and vhe number is regularly increasing. : Frozen milk is now sent from Holland and Sweden to England. This is known in London as ' New milk from the coo-oo.'

* High-roads' are so called because t. ey were originally raised by an embankment above the level of the rough undrained road below. ,-.

A.Japanese bride affects great timidity at the wedding ceremony, and pretends to be unwilling to be married. Of souree, this is only 'making-believe.' The fir tree, 13 found in every part of tbe world. ■ ■

Leo XIII. ia the two hundredth and fifty-eiahth Pope. It is said there are more, flowering nlants in New South Wales than in all Europe. It hj desirable that all travellers in Spam should be provided with certificates of identity. The death rate of the Eusaian Empire is thirty-six per thousand;-?-just double that of London. ;?; v> *i?f?'*i|

Ghent, in Belgium, is built on twentysix islands, connected with one another by eighty bridges. || ,'/ \ Several thousands iolbairpinß of many kinds, have been recovered from the ruins of Pompeii. . If t e streets of New York city were placed end to end they would reach from Long lelandsSound to San Francisco Bay. Chrysanthemums, served as a salad are a favourite article of diet among the Japanese.-. *"| ' i Eight cubic feet of snijw, when melted, hiafee one cubic foot of water.' The population of the world at the time of the' Emperor Augustus iB estimated to have been. 54 000,000. At the present time it is estimated at 1,680,000,000. Of all the Persian crown jewels the peacock throne is the most magnificent. It isfentirely of silver, uictusted from end ioj end and to| bottom with diamonds.-- •-' • *';•

They have a curious custom in France of; rewarding the widows of public men by installing them in tobacco shops. In the past year 260 concessions of this kind have been made. The State of Colorado has accorded to, female citizens the suffrage in all its completeness. It has long had wom-ari on juries, and now the enlistment of women to servo iu the State Militia is sanctioned.