Brevities.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 25, 13 September 1901, Page 2

Brevities.

j Soklie^s; im the- Italaa- Atiuv ave> |aiibwfed:,c?lgaiis-'a«'j)ai't ol tlioir- daily/" iratitiifr.-

I T-L-agedV reported' fl- im MelbourneJAfii incendiary *hi -t by" a policeman. | Indications-aire- pointing-, to another.' Is'iea-revS' strike ia- Austialia.. ! T-he- Wail'ii Mine ]iti» produced g«->lclL 'to the- vs'us of i.:i,.75-i,.9?6v. . * i G<reat Britain has LOo* 000-factories., '■ Awo ina-n^i b':*aiu dccii ik js> ia vrei gii t; inftev the a§;e o2 30.. ! Africa- is- thv.io times- I'argje-r tltaiiu. i:EuvO|)fr.. ...

Diamonds were first disco-vo-:*ed nu.

S Kith Atir c i in 1857.

Rsix.-sia's Nation ii Ddbt is £7»8,3!>S

;O'Ja T Japan is £25,424,903. The totii consumption of paper im the British Isles'is 1,047.000 tons a. year.

Money talks, but st it thare is suck a thing as hush money. Britain's' bill • for foreign fruit, vegetables and poultry is £8,000,000* a year.

German law covanels all persons.

prer 12 years of age to be re-vaccinat-ed.

The Swiss Cabinet c msists of scvejif.

members!-each of whom draws £180 per annum.

A mar:ied ma says his home is? run by the rule -of thveo—haby, \\ih\ and mother- .n-law.

Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway and Italy aro no.v training dogs i'o.' use in war The horse succumbs to cold more 'quickly than any other aiir.na 1. A single oyster will produce a million young ones in a season. Jupiter is 1,387 times as big- as the* c ii'th, but only 300 times as heavy. So ne girls cannot help stealing hearts because they lviye taking- ways.. Alexandria pos esses the largest artificial harbour in the Avorld. It costs many people;inpre to keep n.p appoarances than it does to live. The hen that sets on a clunk's egg. {hatches out an excuse for. a chicken. France has 500 public libraries with 7,500,000 books; England only 220, with 5,000,000.

Sooner or later the self made man.

finds tkat it takes a woman to make a complete job .of it.

- 'Lh<L_ Abyssinia!i warriors alwa}'.s honour theii' King by a band escort." '"' of forty-five trumpets whoicvei1 he goes. ■ •

Ladies with long sVu-U ■>ro a o-veat help to the County Council in keeping

the streets clean

When a girl sings incessantly, sllrt has either a sweet disposition or a grudge against her neighbours. The London Fire Eri^'ade usos 17, 1000,000 gallons of water a year, against ! 32,000.000 in New York. "