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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 29 August 1908, Page 4

Thirty-five ipcr cent, ol iueunat;s who remain in inebriate retreats for a year or more are permanently cured. Tlie sea is invading the land near Walton-on-Jiaze, England, at a steady rate of half a mile per century. A Japanese is liable to military service at the age of 17; but he is not enrolled until he is 20, except in time of The present Emperor of Japan, JUuls'i I Hito, is a. lineal successor of a dynasty which has held the throne, since B.C. 000. For foreign coin or bullion the Bank of England .pays only £3 17s !)d per ounce, which is l'/»d less than Mint I ing. Many arc 500 feet deep, and L Harec was found to exceed 1,000 feet. A vessel's tonnago is found thus: I Multiply the inside length of the keel in feet by the length of the 'midsh'P beam, and that result by the depth. Divide the product by 94. The death-rate in England is (ailing with astonishing rapidity. So recently j as 1894 the rate was 19.4 per 1,000. Now it is only a little over 15 per 1,000. A hundred years ago it was about 50 per 1000. France now owns a far larger area ot Africa than does Great Britain. Our African possessions are 2,714 square miles; those of France, 3,895,000 square milea. Egypt, however, is not here included in the British possessions. it is a curious fact that a butterfly can be frozen hard, and left so for some hours, yet on being removed to warmth the insect will recover and 115' away. More, than two dozen species of butterflies are known beyond the Arctic j circle. . Down to the year 1748 cricket was illegal in England, and any person permitting it to be played on his land was liable to be fined £'2o and to suffer three vears' imprisonment. In spite of these penalties the first county matci was played between Kent and Sussex at Seveuoaks in 1735. : There are now in the world, as near- ] ly as can be computed, 1,480,000,000 people. Of these, 421,000,000 live under the British flag.