Cleanings.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 790, 13 November 1894, Page 7

Cleanings.

There are about 600 watertight doors in the battleship Barfieur.

A. wise titan never argues with a pretty woman.

In Corea tiiere are snows that never melt, and flowers that never cease to bloom.

1 Give me the baby to hold, my dear,’ is the name of a new song. You won’t hear many married mon singing

The largest mammoth found in Siberia measured 17ft long and 10ft in height. The tusks weighed 860 pounds. The head without the tusks weighed 414 pounds.

The imaginative insight must supplement the actual sight to attain the true vision, and our dull hearing must be quickened to catch even the ordinary high, fine, tones of Nature s daily conversation.

The earliest form of the horse-shoe was a leather boot, but this boot was only worn by heavy war-horses. The ordinary horses of the Greeks, Romans, Arabians, and other natives were unshod, though methods of hardening the hoof were occasionally used.

Twenty-four carat gold is all gold ; 22-carat gold has 22 parts of gold, 1 of silver and 1 of copper ; 18-carat gold has 18 parts pure gold and 3 parts each of silver and copper ; 12-carat gold is half gold, the remainder being made up of 3| parts of silver and 8| parts of copper.

The Fire Department of Berlin has a fire engine, the carriage of which is made entirely out of papier mache. All the different parts, the body, the wheels, pole, etc., are finished in the best possible manner. While the' durability and powers of resistance possessed by this material are fully as great as those of wood, the weight is, of course, much less.

Temperance reformers are constantly being criticised for not having discovered a cheap, palatable, and popular teetotal beverage. * But ’ says the British Medical Journal, ‘ the advocates of abstinence are not, however, specially blameworthy in this matter. Repeated attempts have been made, by the offer of handsome prizes by abstainers and others, to stimulate the production of such a drink, but. the issue has been failure. In a well-known attempt of this kind, of the 47 competing beverages, it was truly said that the attractive were intoxicating, and the unintoxicating repulsive. There are several varieties of effervescent, pleasant, nonalcoholic drinks, such as orange and lime-fruit champagne, but a still and pleasing liquid has not yet been forthcoming, or, at least, such a one as would prove acceptable to the public. Whoever succeeds in producing such nn article will speedily make a competency.,

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