FROM OTHER PAPERS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 June 1901, Page 4

FROM OTHER PAPERS.

France has some 3000 registered trades unions, with a membership of over 600,000.

Out of every 100 marriages, 25 last between two ami live years, and 10 over 20 years. Sir 1 lav id Salomons must form a very bad opinion of Franco. Some of the paper made in Corea is so strong and dense that it is used to cover umbrellas. This won’t bear comparison with some of the paper used in modern newspapers.

The timber trade is so brisk in Hawkes Bay that 29 sawmills are kept busy in the hush districts.

Gas is the only British trade which in 1899 employed no women. There were seven at work in electrical works says an English paper. We have not hoard of any female mechanical engineers.

At a recent Newcastle Town Council meeting it was slated *tliat the late Mr Pease, banker, had bequeathed his 40 years’ unique collection of Thomas Beswick’s drawings and engravings to the local public library. They include the only set in existence of the proofs of iEsop’s Fables. The Newcastle Town Council must keep careful watch over these precious engravings, or they may meet with a like fate to the celebrated Gainsborough portrait. More especially as tlicy| ire the only proofs in existence of this celebrated engraver’s work. Every inhabitant of London eats 1731 b of potatoes in a year. A Parisian consumes on an average but 491 b per annum. Greyraouth storekeepers should be on their guard, as it is stated that a number of counterfeit coins are in circulation in Auckland at present. They resemble the true coin in design and ring, but are of a dull leaden colour, and can be distinguished by being rubbed with the fingers.