VARIOUS MATTERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3594, 4 November 1905, Page 4

VARIOUS MATTERS.

The total value of the produce of the forest exported from Canada last year was $2'J.'.)34,089. If the Mici.r.trgua canal is finished Jdelbonie will be il.XiO miles nearer to New York than to Liverpool by a 11Ecn route, The worst banking crisis of the last .century was in IB3‘J, when the Lank of England was saved from failure by f*" Jin r k of France. Taking the population of Italy as TOO, .that of the United Kingdom is 128, of- Germany, 17"; of the United States, 234, and of Kusaia 406. A recent test of salt-water Are service -gave satisfaction. Salt water extinguishes fire much more rapidly than the same amount of fresh. The heaviest precious stone i» the 'zircon, which is 4% times heavier than 'an equal quantity of water. The Tightest is the opal, only twke as heavy as water. The balloon record has been beaten lately by a balloon sent up from Paris with automatic instrument*. It rose 66,000 feet, or 10>/ a miles, and met with a temperature of 102 degrees below zero. The state Montana owns more than one-eighteenth of its area, for the government granted to the state two sections in each township for the benefit of the public schools and an aggregate of 068,000 acres for the various state institutions. Tt*"is a peculiar fact that, although American roads are Infinitely more wearing upon motor vehicles than are French highways, the automobile bunders of France make their machines much heavier and stancher than are the majority of self-propelled vehicles of American manufacture.