GLEANINGS OF FACT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3528, 30 May 1905, Page 4

GLEANINGS OF FACT.

The province of Quebec is 293 year? Old; Montreal, 209; Toronto, 100. The carat used in estimating tin weight of gems is a grain of Imliiir: wheat. Coffee is planted 400 trees to thacre, and the yield averages u poum. a tree. The cultivation of sugar extende: from India to Persia some time in tin ninth century. A floating bottle dropped in th Gulf stream will cross the Atlantic in about ISO days. English beekeepers average St pounds ot honey from their b’"' American only 20 pounds. The United States grants 25,00: patents a year, England only 8,00, Canada grants 4,000 a year. London’s fire brigade puts out n fire at an average cost of £4O. New York pays £l3B for the same senice, and Cincinnati holds the recort. with ££9s per fire. The only occasion upon which a peer or peeress wears a coronet is at the coronation of a sovereign.. Athe moment when the archbishop c : Canterbury places the crown on tinhead of the new monarch every peer present at the ceremony dons his own coronet. The invasion of London by American visitors has reached unprecedented proportions and never before ha\e there been so many wealthy Americans in the English capital. At one fashionable West end hotel a dozen multimillionaires are staying with their families, and money being spent with a prodigality which the British “old nobility” must regard as demoralizing and detestable.