Briefs

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 34, 22 November 1901, Page 3

Briefs

~ -All the princes of the Caucasus claim direcf'descent'from'King pavid aiid" some (if them base 'iWn- descent from Npah, '■■'■■■''■• ■ -'■'■ ■'•■:-1

Australia's first railway was from Melbourne ,to Hobson Bay, It was oj>ened in 1854 V Australia now has 11,000 miles of riail,

An electrical horsewhip gives the animal a shook instead (A a out, A . small battery is controlled by $ pushjbutton. ■.:■■-.. ■ ■•■•

The Tolunteer mQveinent~ began in 1798, aud in 1709 George 111, received 8,193 Volunteers in Hyde Park; V

No transit of Tenus across. the sun will be visil-le from the earth till 2004.

A machine for condensing sea f<-g intqdrinking. water has been invented.

In .1800 the''Tiraes'was a fouivpage paper, Avith four cohiniris o'each,

February "will -lmve-fiva Sundays in 1920, 1948, an! 1976,

. There will be' 380 eclipse)* during present century,- :

Coals were £3 9s, 9d. ,'q, ton in the 'first year, of tlie"l9th century.

•The population of Greece was 500, 000 in 1800. -It is now -2£ lnillibns,

The liorse trade is good: all over the world.

Australia, remarkable for its large eater. 0$ has the highest death-rate.

. It.is -estimated' that picking pockets supports over one hundred thousand ,of .London's population. •

London's population has ...grown from 950,000 to five millions in the last Century*

.' There will be twelve transits of Mercury acr< ss the sun' s disc between 1900 and 2000

■Coffee-planting in Ceyloii began; in 1840 rose to 50,000 tons in 1878, and is now dead.

Seven hundred tons of zinc were got from British mines in 1830. In 1881 it raised 15, 950 tons.

I i 1810 England drank 370 -millica gallons of beer and cider, ag-ainst 1,040 millions to-day,

It takes five -.h msand bees to weigh pound, but when the msec s come in fresh from the lields and flowers, freighted with honey* they weigh nearly thrice as. much.

When a rich Chinaman is so ill that lie is likely to soon shuffle off this mortal coil, his thoughtful relatives hurry him off to an undertaker's, where he may rest his dying eyes on the coffin that is to contain his bones. This is to save tim^ and trouble.