VARIOUS MATTERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3529, 1 June 1905, Page 4

VARIOUS MATTERS.

The total value of the produce of the forest exported from Canada layear was $211,the!,680. If the .Nicaragua canal is finisheMelborne will be 1,:J50 miles near to \ew York than to Liverpool by a. sea route. The worst banking crisis of the century was in 1821), svhen the l>. of Kurland was saved from fail by the Hank of France. Taking the population ... too, that of the United Kingdom is 128, of (lertiiany, 172; of the United States, 22-1, and of Russia 406. A recent test of salt-water lire service pave satisfaction. Salt water ev tinpuishes lire much more ra’ than the same amount of fresh. The heaviest precious stone is . ■ zircon, which is 4 1 /. times heavier tin an equal quantity of water. lb liphtest is the opal, only twice heavy as water. The balloon record has been beate; lately by a balloon sent up from Parks with automatic instrument.-. It ruse 66,000 feet, or 10miles, and met Hth n temperature of 102 depr-e ■ ,v zero. The state of Montana < ■• than one-eiphteenth of its area, for the povernment pranted to the state two sections in each township for the benefit of the public schools and an a eyre irate of 083,000 acres for the various state institutions. It is a peculiar fact that, a.lthouph American roads arc infinitely more wearing upon motor vehicles than are French highways, the automobile builders of France make their machines much heavier and stancher than are the majority of self-propelled vehicles of American manufacture.