ODDS AND ENDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3567, 31 August 1905, Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

For every 110 civilians, 380 soldiers commit suicide in Great Britain.

A record pine log, 94 feed long, IS inches square and perfectly straight, was recently landed at Leith. Italy and Spain and have fewer 1,,,,,,- .. -irnnortirm to population r country. 'I he Argentic C ,ias most. ;; • ; European towns have increc- ' 1 per cent, in ” -mi'afeon. w 1 " con a try <’ ■'«- ia ‘ crease has been but 70 per cent. Britain digs canals more cheaply than other countries. The average coat of English canals being £9,600 a mile, against £ 10,000 in France and £ 13,600 in Canada. , Potatoes have censed to he the prhud'r.l root crop of Ireland, if they are to be compared with turnips by weight or yield—last year, for example, only about 1,54'.;,000 tons, againat 4,4!. : 6.000 tons of turnips.

Ttu- tusks oi Congo elephants are as n rule very large and weigh on an average GO pounds. Some of them are of extraordinary size. At the Brussels exhibition a pair, of tusks were on show each of which weighed 156

pounds At the Moon sale of coins in London a silver Oxford crown of King Charles I. brought $745; nn Oliver Cromwell pattern gold 60-shilling piece, $700; a “petition” crown of Charles I. in silver, $1,673; a pattern crown in gold of George 111., 1817, $720, and n double sovereign of Edward VI., $1,275.