NEWS AND NOTES.
The cod, according To Luenkseek, annually spawns nine* millions of eggs, the flounder a million, the mackerel half a million, the herring ten thousand, the carp a quarter of a million, the perch more, and the sturgeon six or seven millions. Of the viviparous, the blenny brings forth two or three hundred. The spawn of one genus is mostly devoured by others, and not one egg in a hundred is supposed to be hatched. - There is little or nothing known with' certainty in regard to the invention or discovery of glass. Some of the oldest specimens : are Egyptian, and the age of certain glass vessels made by that people which are now kept in the British Museum is believed to be at least 4,19-1 years, dating back to the year 2,800 B.C. Transparent glass was first used about'7so 8.C., the credit of the latter discovery being given to the Phoenicians. The old story of its accidental discovery is familiar. Merchants who were resting their cooking-pots on blocks of subearbonate of soda found glass produced by the union, under heat of the alkali and the sands of the desert
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1752, 15 November 1917, Page 4
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191NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1752, 15 November 1917, Page 4
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