ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 66, 18 November 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A BURST BLOOD-VESSEL

(Per Press Association.]

Foxton, November 17

\t the inquest touching the death of Raymond Andrcsen, a verdict was returned that death was caused by the bursting of a blood-vessel in the brain.

Articles to the value of nearly £250,000 are pawned in London every week.

There are 1425 characters in the twenty-four books that Charles Dickens wrote.

Telephone operators in Egypt are required to . speak English, French, Italian, Greek, and "Arabic.

Cyclists in Denmark are forbidden by law-to ride faster,than the ordin-ary-speed of a cab through any town.

■ Throwing dice for -cigars is a common practice in tobacco' Shops in A an f 'if" the customer wins; he pays less 'than 'the feebfemsed flrt» for his cigar.

- Thirty tons of paper for the manufacture'of playing cards were purchased by the Greek Government from British' makers during 1912.

The first canal between Manchester and Liverpool ■ was begunt in 1709 and finished in 1776. It was thirty-eight miles long, and cost £360,000. . .

We wear, away two inches of shoe leather in a year. . A pair of boots that "would last a lifetime" would, consequently, have to be fitted.with soles from ten to eleven feet thick.

Since 1885, when cremation was held to lie legal, 11,947 cremations have been carried out in England, according to official figures supplied to the City of London Corporation. Last year 1064 persons were cremated.

Last night the police received a call to the house of a local resident, where the lady of the house was sleeping by herself, the -lady being of opinion tiiat somebody was endeavoring to break into the premises. Constable Bleasel was quickly on the scene, but no clue could he discovered. t

At Dunolty, Victoria, on .Monday, 10th inst., when prospecting on the indicator line of reef, Mollagul, J as. Montgomery, an old resident, found a mass of gold-bearing quartz, weighing in the rough 13Q0z., and estimated to contain lOOoz. of gold. He made the lucky find at a depth of lOff. from the surface.

The task some people have of making ends meet was disclosed by the evidence of two maried women before the cost of living inquiry, conducted by Mr Justice Heydon in Sydney. They said that when they were married, their respective husbands were in receipt of 30s a week each. One couple went to live at Botany. Theyj paid 6s a week rent, and they had to buy furniture and clothes and live, all on 30s. Both women now have three children. The husband of one earned £2 14s a week, and that of the other £2 10s. The latter witness said that often she could not buy fresh milk for her children, as she had not the money. Threepence was the average weekly outlay on fruit—four small bananas. She would like to be able to buy more meat and vegetables. Clothes, etc., were purchased on time payment. One witness admitted that her husband had bought a tailor-made suit, but added that "he would have to wear it until it dropped off." The Court smiled when she concluded:— ."I had to patch one pair of his trousers«until F did not know which were patches and which were trousers."