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MULTUM IN PARVO.

*— Naval officers are now taught ju-jitsu. — The redwood .of California has the quality of being almost fireproof. — Scotland has twice as many distilleries fes England and Ireland combined. — The coat of feeding the British cavalry horses averages £25 a head yearly. — Toads, bats, and enakee. can live longer •without food than- any other creatures. — So long ago as 1836 Clharles Green and two friends crossed the EngJish Channel by {balloon. — Electric currents have no taste, but cause one by decomposing the fluids of the mouth. — The worker-bae lives isix months, the drone four months, and-the/emale"bee four years. — Mullet are perhaps the only fish that throw out regular sentries in front of and above their shoals. — In Russia 200 people are killed every year by wolves. — Salaries of the English Royal Household amount to £193,000 annually.. — Deaths from consumption in London last year amounted to 6419.. — The dollar^ sign is derived from the letters " U S" in' monogram:- — The entire space covered by the Tower of London is about 13 atres. , — 'At one time barbers were not .permitted to talk when shaving customers-. * — Love-messages on post-cards are forbidden by the "Russian postal regulations. —It Holland the average number oi deaths from railway accidents is one a year. — Tea leaves are gathered four tim-as a year from the- tea plant after its third year. — For his services in South Africa Lord Kitchener received £50,000. — Twenty million acres in India are irrigated by (Government canals. — Males outnumber females in India in the proportion of 1000 to 963. — Lieutenant Shaekleton once contested Dundee in the Unionist interest. — During the Russo-Japanese war there were but two real battle fleet actions. — Lord Minto, Viceroy of India, has ridden five. times in the Grand National. - — There are fire universities in India. — The gum-arabic tree comes from India. - . - — Bathing-machines were "first used at Margate in 1753. — Lord Charles Beresford holds three medals for life-saving. — There are 28 towns in India with a population of over 100,000. — Alexander's in\nsion of India — 326 B.C. — is the first landmark of Indian history. — Tlio area of British territory in India, excluding native States, is 1,097,901 square miles. — Less than six people out of every 100 in India have ever learnt to read or write. — There are nearly 150 languages, derived from nearly 20 linguistic sources, spoken in India. — India produces about 7,000,000 tons of coal, yearly. — i Germany was the last naval Power to adopt the -submarine. ■ ' • • . —Mr Hall- CaSne received £75 for the copyright of his first book. " — ytv Montasue Holbein first' attempted to swim the Channel in, 1901. -s Nfefti-Jy three-quarters q£ tbfe entire population of India are Hindus.. - — More than 500,000 acres in India are devoted to the cultivation of tea* — !Egenty years is now regarded as the maxxnifun useful life of .a battleship. — Mi W. *"P. Frith painted his famous picture^ "Derby Day,*' only one visit to the. race. . . . — The Indian .Empire extends over a territory larger than the Continent of Europe, w'thout Bi'Ssia. — Queen .Alexandra is an expert needlewoman, and taught her daughters , to cut out and- make their own frocks. — Lord Roberts haa been four tiroes Commander-in-Chief. has twice had. his horse shot under him, and in 1658 gained the V.C. "" — According to a leading Paris dressmaker, the Queen is the best-dressed royal lady in Europe, and "flings away least money on her clothes." —In 1901 India's nonulation was 294,361.056, or about one-fifth of the total population of the world —At the beginning of this year Grent Britiin had 58 battk&hins. Germany 28, and France 24, built and building. — British battleships are now protected by Krupp steel. 6in of which are equal in resistance to 18in of wrought iron. — Warships arp now constructed without rams, -the weight "and speed of modern men-of-war rendering such a form of attack virtually impossible. —An admiral's flag flies at the mainmast head of his ship, and consists of a red cross upon a white ground. — The largest elenhant tusks known w»igh 1981b and 1741b. They were both taken from the same elephant. — TVw* .full nominal complement for one "of Britain's biggest battleships is about 800 officers and men. — During the course of his career Lord Roberts has gained nine orders, five medals and 19 battle clasns. — The largest kite ever made xrns 50ft by 45ft. Its weight, including tail, exeeednd three-quarters of a ton. — There are nearly 100 quarries on the Me of Portland, and about 70.000 tons of Portland stone are raised annually. — Hammerfest. in Norway, is the most northern town of any size in the world ; Punta Arenas, in Chili, the most, southern. — Avalanches are sometimes of immense size Two measured lecently in th<» Alps contained 50,000 and 130,000 tons of snow respectively. — The greatest number ever killed in a railway accident in Gieat- Britain is 78. This was at Killooney, in Ireland, in 1889. — The condor is the only bird which keeps its young in its nest for a year. The young cannot fly for 12 months after being hatched. '— The Drovinoe of Quebec has a wooden railway 30 miles in length. The rails are of maple. This railway is used for hauling timber. — Over 1,000,000 cats' skins are used every year in the fur trade. —In China there are 1557 walled cities wh«re there is neither a foreign nor Chinese pastor. * — A Tvdsp's jaws are so powerful that "one of these insects has been known to cut its way through a sea shell. .^rrO* ihree wires of the same thickness, one rruuie of gold will sustain 1501b; one of copper, 3021b ; and one of iron, 5491b. •' — Without the express consent of his wife, no married Austrian subject can procure a passpprj for journeying beyond the frantic

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 65

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Tapeke kupu
953

MULTUM IN PARVO. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 65

MULTUM IN PARVO. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 65

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