Cleanings

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 757, 20 July 1894, Page 7

Cleanings

The only quadruped that lays eggs is the ornithorhvnchus of Australia.

Spain is extravagant in the matter of bull-fights and operas ; she enriches her toreros, and buries her tenor singers and ballet girls io gold. But she allows her schoolmasters to die of hunger.

Among the statuary which will figure at the approaching Pans Salon will be a symbolic figure The Sea, by Larche. It is executed in tin, and furnishes a new and striking proof of the decorative capacity of that metal.

There is something very curious about this phenomenon ; whether the thread is influenced by the pulse in the ‘ ball ’ of the thumb, or whether there is some unconscious transference of intention from the brain to the thread, I do not know; but in any case the matter is sufficiently interesting to be worthy of a critical test by persons who will carefully, and without bias, carry out this sigular experiment of telling the time.—Exchange.

Excavations in the interest of urchwology are bringing strange things to light. One of the last is the bill of a ladies’ tailoress, on a stone tablet, from the Temple of Nippur, in Chaldea. It refers to 82 dresses and upper garments, 14 of which were perfumed with myrrh, aloe, and cassia. The form of the writing, and various other indications show that the bill dates from about the year 2800 before our era.

Hitherto the famous Lick telescope, with its diameter of 01 centimetres, has been the largest tn the world ; but there is now in course of construction a still more powerful instrument for an observatory being built on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It will have a diameter of 100 centimetres, that is to say, a full metre (over a yard). The lenses are supplied by M. Fair, of Paris, the celebrated optician.

It is estimated, in all, the debt of Brazil, including paper money and the railway guarantees, amounts to about £150,000,000 and this enormous weight of obligations has to be born by about 15,000,000 people, two-thirds of whom are half-breeds and Indians. World

‘ Weber's Last Waltz,’ it is well known, was written not by Weber, but by Reissiger. Singularly enough, people have always refused to acknowledge the true story and the myth still flourishes in England how Weber wrote his ‘Last Waltz’ on his death-bed, and how his mourning friends found the precious manuscript under his pillow.— Argosy.

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