GLEANINGS OF FACT.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 371, 18 June 1903, Page 2

GLEANINGS OF FACT.

.-“Cj ; The province of Quebec is £93 years •id; Montreal, 230; Toronto, 109: The carat used in estimating the weight of gems is a grain of Indian u V.if. Coffee is planted 400 trees to the •ere, and the yield averages a pound • tree. The cultivation of sugar extended from India to Persia some time in the ninth century. v A floating bottle dropped in ? .the •ulf stream will croea the Atlantic in about 180 days. English beekeepers average M pounds oi honey from their hives, American only 20 pounds. The United States grants' 95*000* patents a year, England only 8,000. Canada grants 4,000 a year. London’s fire brigade pats out a ®re at an average cost of £4O. New? Tork pays £ 138 for the same service, and Cincinnati holds the record with £295 per fire. The . only occasion upon which a peer or peerdss wears a. coronet is •t the coronation of a sovereign. At the moment when the archbishop of Canterbury places the crown on the head of the new monarch every peei present at the ceremony dons his evn coronet. The invasion of London by American visitors has reached nnprecedent* •d proportions and never before have there been so many wealthy? Americans in the English capital.?;*At one fashionable "West end hoteT'a dozen multimillionaires are staying with their families, and money is being ■pent with a prodigality which the ■zitish “old nobility** must regard m demoralizing and detestable. .