MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 67

MULTUM IN PARVO.

*— Mails were first sent by rail in 1838. — German school children number 9,750,000. — "Cash" originally meani a case for money. 1 — Edward 111 nstituted the Order of the Garter. — Three silver pennies recently sold for £602. — Shillings were first issued in 150*. — Farthings are lega.! tender up to eixpsnee. — There ane- 7,514-, 481 voters in the United Kingdom, — Ladies' feet are larger than they were two . yca-rs ago. - —In Madrid, it is considered unlucky to marry on Tuesday. — The population of the United States per squire mile is 27.71. — Twenty million, shooting &taxs fall upon the earth's eurfaoe daily. —In che last half, century Japan has recorded more than 27,1X10 earthquakes. — -The population of "Russia is increasing at rhe rate of 2,500,000 per annum. :— King Edward -has • just "trad a special tricycle constructed for his personal use. , —During 1908. Wilbu*. Wright travelled - between 2000 and ' 300G miles- in hie airship, . . - \ - '■ * -.] ' — Raßway season ticket-holders. 4n the : United Kingdom, in 1808"mimbeT«a 721,000. \ — The total number Qf railway passengers in tii© United Kingdom in 1908 was 1,275,05Gj(XXl —In the fourteentb century haymakers received own penny a day as wages. — Xtast year Great Britain sold more than £40.000,000 worth of coal to foreign countries —An ounce weight is supposed to represent the weu'ht of t>4o dry grains or wheat. — More, t.i&n half the recruits for Continental conscript armies can neither read nor write. More Tihan £55,000,000 wortui of cotton was imported by the United Kingdom last year. — Artificial legs may cost as much as 30gs «aoh. - ! -r- One-third of Germany's population is , Roman Catholic. >-. { — Chines© divide the day into 12 parts j of two hoars each. . ' j —In Budapest is a schoo 1 whert, people are -taught the art of eating. . . ,*:. I»ast year ..the population of New Zealand increased by 31,158. — Shilling dinners are obtainable by M.P.'s in the House of Commons. , — The colonies last year supplied the Home Country with about £24,000,003 wortb of wool. — One-third of the County of Dumfriesshire is owned by the Duke of Buccleueh. — Consumption is most prevalent amongst people between- the ages of 25 and 30 i —Dr W. G. Grace n«ver mads a pair of "spectacles" in. first-clasa crioket. -» The- leotf -mines of Comberlaml- arid J Derbyshire yield about 15,000 tons of lead per - annum. • „.-'.•' —In Tiverton :s: s a lace-worker who iws worked- for- the- seme' firm for 71- j-3aos —it i^Jesftftnatcd. that. £100,000 ai. y-4-ar is giver' away.-to beggars ,in the' streets of London. 1 '— -Reports of * the proesedings m the j House of Commons were noL permitted until 1847. . — Tfce Nelson monument in Trafalgar square, London, was erected at a cost of £45,000/ — Three tennis courts have been laid out in Pittsburg, America, on 'and valued at £200,000: ' —Mr Lloyd George declares that gclf prolongs life. — A school* for fathers hase beer started in St. Pancras, London. — There^aro 3490 factories and workshops in the City of London. — Prance last year- suplied Britain with ' M-eo-rl-r- d 845,000 worth of jewell&ry. | — Last y«ar the Director of Public Pro- j seeulioßs ir England prosecuted in 559 cases. I — Pull moonlight is estimated to be of l-618000th th? intensity of sunlight. • — For every thousand people in England and Wales 15 die annually. [ — A French boy of 12 years of age has ' had a painting hung in the Paris Salon. — Stockholm will be the scene of the n-oxt Olympic Games, which will be held there in 1912. — The nucleus of the British Museum collection was bought by the nation in 1753 for £20,000.— T^-Two hundred thousand 'additional Territorials' would cost tlie nation £2,000,000 a year more — ;Cat:co derives- its name from Calicut-. a town" in IncL'a. — ; Magic- lanterns were invented in the seventeenth century. .. — -'Hansom ~cal>s wer£ ~ reeerrflj sold at auction,. in EoodDa. for 255. each. . — The rock on which Gibraltar stands risas 1439 ft from -tlie sea. — The German, mile is more than four times «s long as -the English. 1 — For short distances the salmoi is stated to .be the swiftest fish. | —In Italy no ancient monument can re . restored or old building altered without special permission from the Government. — Last year 88,634- experiments upon iiving animals were perforated in England md Wales — an increase of 15.260 upon the uumber -recorded in 1807. — The London Zoological Ganler.s has recently acquired a speoimen of the takin, an animal in appearance between a goat and an antelope. This is the only example in the whole of Europe. — It is stated by a German biologist -that the two sides of a face are never alike ; in two cases out of five the eyes are out of line ; one eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of 10 ; and the ri^ht ear is gene-rally higher than the left. — The mining inhabitants of the little Norwegian town of Kohgsberg. deems to lead an ideal 'existence. .The miners number about 600, .xnd nearly every mam«d man lives in hie own freehold house, and has ako a good garden. Th« owners of the mines -take their employees into service between the ages. of 15 and 20, and if. affer eight years' eervioe,^ any miner is forced to retire, he- receive3"*a pension varying according -to hie wage. In additior lo tnis most oi ihe miners possess small crofts 01farms, and they are allowed sufficient time during the year to cultivate them. Full wages are paid for all holidays. Medical attendance and medicine are provided fro j cl charge in the case of eiokness. .What ' a model nome of th« working man ! j