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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 1 February 1909, Page 1

The estimated number ot Protestants ' in the world is 180,000*,000, as Compared with 250,000,000 Catholics and 110,000,0(M ; .adhcrchts' ; bJ %Ec "Gketf iipd Oriciital' ChurcKcs. *" "■"--• In Silesia glass bricks of a durable kind are now being used for building purposes. Many of the residential houses are constructed, of these bricks, ; which are made "in various -tints. China has sent abroad a large number of students to various countries. There are now 60 in France, 50 in Germany, 100 in Belgium, about 70 in ; London, and others in Austria, etc. The difference between rising at 5 ; and seven o'clock in the moruing for the space of 40 years — supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night ' —is nearly equivalent to the addition of < ten years to his life . 1 From coal is obtained the means of . producing over 400 shades of colour, j a. great variety of perfumes, explosive I agents, various acids and medicines, in-sc<-ticide.-=, salts, saccharine, fruit fla- . yours*, asphaltum, lubricating oils, and ' varnish. 1 > 1 apparently do not like "• I-fr Clemeut Wragga-g inclement pra- ' phcey of droughts. "The Pastoral- : ists' Eevierr" sny-*: — "Our eld : friend .*li Wragge has been predict- ] :ng ibe contrary. Ha states rhat we ! are in for another drought cycle, and j tie bad --ea-Jon- has yet to come, with 1 the rainfall dfercasing in-each year, ■ What basis Mr "Wragge woTks upon, 7 wh-nthr-r it in cyclic or sun-spotty, is ] not clear, bnt the suggestion ' has 1 been made that Mr Wragge, who has 1 a grievance against. Australia, may ' have been looking at it through a yel- '- low glass', which gavo the continent a < jaundiced appearance in his eyes, and ' made him pessimistic. At any rate, * it is gratfying to know that the ' ■Meteorological Department, which now 1 appears to be doing excellent^ work, 1 and probably has more, material to i work on than' he, does not agree^wilh j him, and so far there is nothing to j warrant any alarm which might '.be '1 caused by Mr Wragge 'sprogriostica- 1 tdons^-^lfir-a^pity that he should go i oUt of his ? W£(y^.j)q^«if 1 which can only/ldo'Th^^pj^Spiudo < no .'.good, -.even if itr-^^tl&w^^s ? ye-y?. -;«!riy. •^H.i 1 C otherwhJßj-jrnd'nS p*r^^iviß"*Sr^m4!an ■' ,be-.taft-|hvany way:-*>7S^§- . <lf?.r\Y ;