NEWS IN BRIEF

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 324, 16 January 1909, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

According to t)iii law of averages evcrf sheet of plate glass should get broken in ten years. Lake Huron contains over 3,(JUI> islands—that is, more than any othei Jake in the world. l in eleetrie working of railways then is a loss of six per cent, or juore, ol "electricity through leakage." The telephone is just beginning tt lind favour ia China, there being now over 1,700 subscribers in Peking. The total value of eggs imported int< England last year from Ktissia, JJeu t mark, and Uermany was £8,000,000. J n i'ersia the dough for making Great is rolled out as thin as a pancake, am as long as an ordinary towel. Silk as line as any from a cocoon i: slum by the prima" nobilis, n shelllisl lound in the Mediterranean Sea. It ivunlcl lake a trench. 2,400 mile; long and lull, deep to hold the wate, consumed in London in one year. .Norwegian lir makes the best masts "Next come, in order, tile sprite fir American white pine, and Scottish pine Snakes are so short-sighted that the; are unable to see a. distance of nior than one uuartcr their own length. The right hand, although more sensi tive to touch than the left, is less sensi live to the died of heat and cold. About .•iUO,(l(IO,00(l of the world's popu latum live in houses, 71111.11011,000 in hut and caves, while 2ol),U00.000 have m regular shelter. During the past liftv years there wen li:m earthquake shocks in Hie t „ite< Kingdom, lIUOII j„ (;,|.,. lV] 27,.V'(i ii •lapan, ami 27,072 in J Inly. ' The llible has been translated inli 4011 languages. Two men spent twcnti years learning the Tahilian language and twenty more Ininslaling the llibh into it. . The average yic|,| of K i,ig,. r in Ja ma lea is 2.000 Hi. Iln „,.,-(,, The exhibition which will be held ii in T«kvo in 1(112 will cover 202 acres The Irish, next to the blacks, an least given to suicide. Whether whales sleep or not ha: never been delinitev settled. The factories of .Japan dose ..„ tin .Inst and lilteenth of each mouth. Ninety-six per cent, of the world': coal is produced north of the K,p,,itor I'leiieh doctors .„•,. pioliil.UtJil Iron receiving money bequeathed to them In patients. J llf the world's newspapers, (is out o every ].(iti|> are printed in the Knglisl language. ° The Valican has no less than a thou sand rooms, and covers thirteen acre: of ground. "Tile longest day," in Xorwav last: !'■»»' -\l;'..v 2M to .J„l y 22ml withou interruption. At least ninety ~er cent, of all case: of neuralgic headache are attributed t< defects of the eyes. The first omnibus in T.ondon stuiiei "u September 4t.li, 1828, from, Paddiii" lon to the Haul; of lingland ° At a recent tobacco exhibition ii .Loudon w) . r e shown some Havana cigar: which were ijuoleil at CI each I'rotectio,, is a Horded to inventions ii fi-l count,-,es. To take out a patent it each would cost about .0)00. J lie State robe worn by the Qucei of S.aiu about once a year is eonsidcrc. the most magnificent garment in tin world, A moderate wind moves at the rati of seven miles an hour, a storm at tin .rate of thirty-six miles, and a hurrican, at the rate of eighty miles. . In one year the main wheel of ■• .watch makes 400 revolutions, the cen )w Vl "n J?!""' U "' tliir.l wheel 70.0811 the fourth 5&i,«00, and the escape whee Over (1,000,000 French wome-, C arr Hb'ir own living. n a | f , lf t |, p married. I" the liable of England are several sihcr ingots which have lain there for over 200 years. No other organ of the body is subJ < lid lo so many distinct diseases a. eye, which is allNcted I, • ;i'hanksgivi,ig ~ay i„ the ,"„itcd S at s ,s lomina ly appointed each year '■\ "■.lr.-Kl.-iK: the same dav ■■ 'mailable eli»«en_||, e last Thursday in November. Tl ,'" "'ost illiterate counlry i„ Europe |, '"" """ Tl1 " l«»t -"sus shows nor write.

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