MISCELLANEOUS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 221, 13 November 1900, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Thwbus have been 'found in prehutorio mounds with every evidence of having l*ea made by machinery afemlar to our own. Forty-two yean ago 'David Livingebone indicted the Bo«r> for 'their oruelty their cunning, and their deadly hatred of the British.' A Franoh naturalist asaerta that if the werld should become biidlees, it wculd not support man, despite hit utmoit exertions, bugs aad dags would eat op ailerons and destroy tha orobaids. Daring the last century there have been pablubed by Bible eociei ies alone, two hundred and aiillio i copies of the Bible. ~This is' »verag'e of sevdo hundred aud svjnty-sev»n for tacb day of the hundred y- ars. Artificial peatli atd other om wamtt . cifeffiinioe wear are being umuufactured in France froin fist sc»ie«. An order for a large supply of fish scales has reached Yarmouth. dßsssiSS »,.* The rope used for tethering a war balloon is a very strong but light steel hawser, having a diameter of about > one-third of an inch, or even less, and weighing about 50lb to the 1000 ft. Inside this hawser is a telephone wire, through which communication is carried on with those on the ground. A horse will eat in a year nine times his own weight, a cow nine times, an ox six times, and a sheep six timet.