MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 75

MULTUM IN PARVO.

—•Covered carriages were first used in England in 1580. " . , — One hundred 'thousand 'British railway servants work fro.-n 12 to 15 hours a day. — Tho two crimes which" are decreasing most are arson and- coining. —In Austria timber is measured by tho "Mafter" of. two tone. ~ ~ — Forty per cent, of- the people of the world, are engaged' in agriculture.. — Butter, of, a blue tint* ie made from the milk obtained from -the riativecow of India. . — Within the past .100 years, . whalebone Has risen in price from £30 a t6njjto-£3OOO. — The average number r of vessels' Cwhich enter • British ports . daily* is", nearly "2oo. . -— A - gunner >of-~ the* -Royal "Artillery,- >n .full-'umform' and" wearing- top-boots, -"competed.- in*a "ploughinglmatch and" won a prize at Shalford, .Essex '' ' '- "' '~ " .— Syrian' tobacco has less nicotine^ than Tany-' other ; Virginian .Uias ' most/ the per•cehfage -in the latter rising to 7 per cent. - -rrHolland has 10,200 windmills, which "exeTClSe anlagregate po"wer equal to that of 52}200 horses.- The area drained by each mill is on an average 310 actes. : , -- --^- The -weather is" called" calm -if the air is not moving at more than three miles" an. hour \~ 34 • miles' is & etrong." breeze> s " 40 «. gale; -75 a -storm'; ancl 90 a hurricane. ' — , France started its tobacco monopoly- in 1816, n -a,na"' makes., a , yearly -"prpfit 1 of. over '£12;0p0,p00.; ; . . Tfie^ main . fa^tory^as.;at.' > Balie,where 6000; ■femsfaiV treat eß. yearly;-;;'' '«■ - '*_' —'The _fines¥ "naval- 'ahobting' • achievement ■ of 'last.'-year3_wa« by - Petty^fficer. ' Sullivan. 'Jo£3he T l>u]te> of .Edinburgh. Me put ten ,3801b shots .inW.the-ltarget-within>9o- seponds. , -L.-'A light.of /one candle "power is plainly -Visible aiTone mile^and'Jone of three.-candle --poweic -}£i - two 'milesr ,'Z —In some parts of "West Africa the girls have long engagements. "On "the day ortheir. birth they are betrothed, 'to a baby Ijboy a -trifle older than themselves, and afcthe,age,of 20. they are marrred. The girls know of no other way of' getting a husband* and soithey are quite happy and' satisfied. As wiyeis they " are patterns of obedience, - and x the marriages- usually \-tiirn out.'6uc-_ cesses. '. " ". -. » 'M * A Pontefract woman was finedt*l and £1 14s- : coets "for "seizing the --"Wentbridge village schoolmistress by, the tieck and striking .her with her own cane. The woman's daughter liad previously^ Heen.^ caned Joi jateness and dißbbedience. The chtirman of -the magistrates said- that school teachers often' had "to chastise. children because tho parents would , not, and musk .be prdtecteu in performing" that duty. — The operation of telegraph lines in the Argentine" Republic is greatly hampered by theioct that myriads of small- spiders weave .their webs on -.the wires "until- they hang jdown in regular- festoons. These masses'- of -cobwebs, when damped,, by rain ~or dew, 'draw off the current, and -the capacity ot the lines' is- sometimes reduced to' only a, tenth o£ the \norjnaT. ,-' - „ --'. r ~,~ , — The: inhabitants -of, the „Gree^. l slands, in- the " China Sea," are 'largely.. engaged; in diving for" sponges. ' s Nb' girl. "there" marries until she has jsbown skiirin.bringihfc.sppiiges from the - depths. *. -In some^f the -islands She "father of a* marriageable -daughter bestows her., upon , the most'successfuLdiver-r-ihe'wiho car stay longest .under.waterVandbring up. the biggest loadi of spflfcges.' '- ■ y — Mi. Coates Bharpley,'o£ Kelstern/Hall, iioutli, -Lincolnshire, ""reputed "to be England's greatest farmer, has - died . sudden.y at Jus home after returning from a drive of over 30- miles on a round of inspection of this land and farmsteads. Mr Sharpley imd lived for 5,0 years in the same house in -which- his grandfather was born- He owned -two estates, and .occupied seven others, having a total area exceeding 6000 .acres".- _ - " i. - .- . —'"When, the Coast Erosion Commissioners visited Waltoh-on-the-Naze --recently they were shown a spot north of'itae pier and about "a mile from.the shore which was for t 'merly a churchyard.'.- A quarter of a •century ago the tombstones could be seen under tke wa.ter-a.fr ebt tiHe, Willie aea. rh4a-iui£-ther 1 encroached, and even when the 'tide, us extraordinarily low and the sea clear th© old burying ground is scarcely discernible now from the sea level. - -* \ ■ - - — The death occurred at;hie residence at Eastbourne of Mr William Hardy Kent, who was regarded ac~ the. oldest photographer in "the world, and. -was as. well known in" the United States- as in England. Hardy, who had reached the advanced age of, 88 years,- spent Eis -early years :n New Bedford, "Mass. « - —^A shocking accident, occurred atXJastleblaynev;. County iTonaghan, Ireland,- the Other "daj." .While a hearse conveying a corpse was' proceeding clown a- "steep hill, the brakes failed to: act, and the hearse, together with both -horses, Tan into -a bog sft -below the road level. The driver andanother^ -man sustained broken legs and other, injuries.' while. ,th~e horses were also badly 1 , "and- the- hearse was smashed to pieces. The coffin was recovered by the mourners and carried to the cemetery. TThe Berlin branch of the Imperial In--Buranee Company has set aside the yearly 'sum "of - £5000 ,f or the purpose of providing a, -dental . institute in the city for working jnen folding its -policies. The institute will provide artificial teeth for all working men. needing- them. It has been" found by the company "that men provided with -good dental apparatus^ make a better risk than others, and the new institute -is expected to- save much money to the company in the course of a few ss y ears. - . ■. - — Medical authorities have come to the " conclusion .that a disease " which has- long puzzled them -is due." to the -prevalence of 'the "kissing habit." The fact was men-. -Ifcioned.by Dr W. Itushton-in a lecture de "- !jv-erje'd : under the auspices of the 'National » Health Society. The. jaw 'is air first affected' by -" the disease — known to .-scientists - as "Pyorrhoea alyeolaris" — a, loosening of- the teeth follows and finally,- although they may' be perfectly sound, tjiey fall out- ;one by one. ■ A. victim is_-not,^it appears," likely to. . recognise" the malady; in 'its incipient stages,^ and outwardly, there ia vio j sign "to betray its presence.,--- - * ' '~.~,<\ ' "".-".' -■ - -3anfe .of England, notes are issued 1 for Bums of £5r5 r £10," -£20, £50"; also for £100, i£2oo, £500, and £1000. ' , " ]" That' tared- feeling" is* not\ always caused by the weather, as- some -peoplej would have you believe. The fault lies in some derangement of your digestive 'organs. .Your stomach is out 'of -order, "or : your liver has become sluggish, and refuses ito perform its functions." All' you n«el is a dose or - two of Chamberlain's Tabkis and that feeling of weariness will d'6uppear. ' For sale everywhsta. ,