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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 54, 22 February 1908, Page 3

In 1801 the population per square mile in Ireland was loli; in HHlii it was LIT, and it is still decreasing. In the im-mont of Imperial taxes the Scottish are the most prompt, the English next, and the Irish laol. Statistics issued by the American cen-sus-idlice show that 1,000,000 divorce were issued in the past twenty years. The mines of the world empiov some .-i.000,000 persons, and more than oneI bird of them are in the P.riiMi Empire.

The total area of Africa is estimated at about ]1,.-)00,000 square miles, of which deal liritain owns :>.7lii.!>lu, square mi|es. The coinage issued by Hie lioyal Mint during last year was: Cold. C!2,l(i.">,o(r]; silver. 1.703,070: and bronze. (.'184,520. Mr. Harry Lauder, fhe mush-liall artist, is said to have been snapshotted at least 10,000 times bv photographic amateurs while in New York. All inhabitant in Windlesluini. Surrey, was recently committed for liial for walking away when called upon by a constable to assist him "in die King's name" in making an arrest. The St. <lndiard Tunnel cosi Cl."i2 per yard. France Has more ilittti 1W daily newspapers. The London County Council has nearly 40,000 employees. Porridge and milk form, it is said, an almost perfect diet. The public libraries in the County of London contain about 1,000,000 volumes.

Four minutes, twenty-nine seconds and a half is said to lie a njan's record for staying under water."

The British National Debt in 18'io amounted lo CIO per head of the population; in 1007 it was ,CH).

The Canadian Ooirrnniciit lias instructed its agents in Europe to discourage emigration during the present winter. Nearly every Japanese follows the trade of his father. The smallest bone in the human body is situated in the ear.

Asparagus is one of the oldest known plants used for food. It is estimated that temperate melt live 17 years longer than drunkards. 'l'lie average temperature of the en tire globe is SO degrees Kalir. Sydney, with a. population ol' 538.000, is the largext city in Australia.

('•erlain States ill the American t'ni'in prohibit the marriage of first cousins. The Pyramid of Cheops, near Cairo, contains'more than 4,000.0(10 lons el' slime.

Every year about 4.000 rich persondie in' the failed Kingdom, leaving estate worth U:!00.00ll,on0.

A large ivory eagle recently exhibited in London was Ihe work of two generations of Japanese carvers. The Royal Meteorological Society recommend ' that the subject of the weather should lie taught In school,.

The Herman Army of UIOS will comprise .">ol,!l!)0 soldiers. Sa.Mili non-com-missioned ollicers, and io.-lliri ollicers. Cotton and linen may be ,teeped in auv saline solution, such an alum, ammonia chloride, or borax, lo render them li reproof. King Edward's new yacht, the Alexandra, is titled with turbine engines.

At the cliumowl wedding celebration of Mr. and ill's. James, of Portland. Maine, U.S.A.. one linndred and thirty - fnur of their descendants were present.

The Bishop (if London on one occasion consented to open a bazaar at his residence, Fulham l'lace, On arriving there the crush was so great that he could not at first get into his own house. head pencils, which really contain graphite or plumbago, derive their name From the use of lead pliu els for ruling faint lines on paper before the discovery of the Cumberland graphite mine*.

Persons who have lost their souse of la-tc are now recommended by an American doctor to eat foods of various colours. Certa : u colours, he says, produce the same effect on Hie brain v do certain ll.ivouis. Whenever an intoxicated mm is comveved to'lhe Denver Police Station his plmtograoh is taken, and the next morning he is shown what he looked like the uiirlii before. The photograph cure. Ihe police say. is accomplishing won .lers.

(Vcli-t. will be interested to hear Hnl v i doctor l-a- been invr-stigatinu' the i.i'oper nutriment fur a long-distance ride, and has concluded that no meal or other nitrogenous food should he laken while doing the dav's work, but that the ideal refreohmcnl is fruit and milk. Fxeter ha- hum possessed the heaviest rinsing peal of bells in ihe w.,rl I. The tenor Crandison. so named after a former Bishop of the diocese, lias been re east and its weight increased, so I In;, i! i„ now about Minns Picwl.. or. ie.ite.hIv. bill' a ton hcavio- than th- nuior ■•! St. Paul's.

A man eight',' ycirs of a-c r.el .'. home for old people at Duriibini, a little town near Uregonz. because they wev refused permission to marry. A week afler they relumed to Ihe establishment, statute; that thev had luen married and had spent all I heir money in having a good time.