SCISSORS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4163, 25 November 1884, Page 4

SCISSORS.

British exports to India last year valued at thirty millions sterling.

The coinage of Spain at present in circulation dates from 1700.

The English school board rate is gradually increasing. Nearly forty million coins were turned out of the English mint last year.

Chicago has a new butterine factory with capacity for 2,000,000 pounds a year. Western Australia has only ninety miiles of railway, and those are worked at a loss.

In the sixteenth century ivy hung out was the publicans sign. Tho oldest English newspaper now in existence is the London Gazette.

Ladies are excluded by law from being members of poor law bourds in Ireland. Another injustice to Ireland.

Prince Bismarck keeps up his interest in pisciculture, and every stream and lake on or near his estato is well stocked with fish.

An Indiana baby, born during a terrible storm, had been named Cyclonia. Its father says the appellation is a misnomer: a cyclone doesn't howl every night.

In Glasgow their is one public house license to G9 families; one school to 707 ; one baker to 279 ; one butcher to 448 ; and one dairyman to 413.

The'llion (N.Y.) Citizen' contains tho following statement at the head of its columns: —"The entire body-matter of this paper was composed by a type-setting , machine, and the paper was printed by electricity. It in the first newspaper on earth to establish this p-ccedent."

England would have to undergo a revolution before tho Commander-in-Chief of her Army would be scon standing by the grave of a war correspondent, as General Sheridan the other day stood by the tomb of poor jtfcGahan, when his couuh-ynien laid tho remains of the brilliant war correspondent in their native soil. Sheridan was there officially, at the head of a detachment of war veterans, but it wis his fellow towns man, as well as a gifted countryman, to whose memory ho was paj'ing , honor, yheridan and McGahan both sprang from the same obscure little township of Ohio where the father of the former kept a small store, and where the latter when alad worked on the little farm of the hia widowed mother, walking six miles every Saturday to learn Latin of a priest in Somerset, "county seat."

Camels live from forty to fifty years ; horses average from twenty-five to thirty ; oxen about twenty ; sheep, eight or nine; and dogs, twelve to fourteen. Concerning the ages attained by non-domesticated animals, only a few isolated facts are known. The East Indians believe that the life periods of the elephaut is about 300 years, instances being recorded of these animals having lived 130 years in confinement after capture at an unknown nge. Whales are estimated to reach the age of 100 years. Boine reptiles arc very long-lived, an intstauce being furnished by a tortoise, which was confined in 1G33 and existed until 1753, when he perished by accident. Birds sometimes reach a great age, tho eagle and the swim having been known to live 100 years. The longevity of fishes is often remarkable. Tho carp has boon known to live 200 years ; common river front, 50 years ; and the pike DO years; while Gesner, a Swiss naturalist, relates that a pike caught in 1797 boro a ring recording the capture of the same fish 267 years before. Insects are very shortlived, usually corn looting tho term of their existence in a few weeks or months. Some oven die upon the very day of entering upon their now life. As a general rulo not to be applied too closely, larger types of animals live longer than smaller.

The London correspondent of the Leader says:—"The British Association meeting at -Montreal Las been a brilliant success, inasmuch as it has raised tho question whether ai; Australian or Now Zealand city might not at some future date be the scene of ono of the society's annual sessions. Auckland has been mentioned, but Melbourne seems the favorite.