GENERAL GATHERINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3969, 21 November 1891, Page 2

GENERAL GATHERINGS.

i Salt and water, quite strong, and used persistently for a time, will I prevent the hair falling nut. \ In the more cultured society <r t India, Mohammedan ladies rarely ■ complain or seek divorce. Camel raising is said to afford the , King of Italy much pleasure and pro&t. 1 A healthy adult, doing an ordinary f amount of work, will require from 10 j to 12 ounces of meat a day. » At present there are 218,000,000 b Catholics in the world, according to Y figures furnished by Borne. Bullets (of stone) were used in . 1514. Iron bullets were first men--1 tioned in the Foedera, in 1550. 9 It is said that more notepaper, in j proportion to the population, is sold . in the United States than in any i country in the world. ' An express going from London to j Liverpool, a distance of 201J miles, will throw out 213,048 puffs before e arriving at its destination. ? Since 1971 the licensed houses of : Paisley have been reduced by 86— from 230 to 194—while the population g increased to the extent of 17,000. * The census returns received in Northamptonshire show that in purely agricultural districts the population has declined in the last decade by 10 1 to 40 per cent. !• England has more women workers ' than any othur country in proportion , to population. Twelve per cent, of e the industrial classes are women. 3 Hemp culture is being made an ' important culture in the Bahama H islands, over 40,000 acres being under I development. t An.important discovery of Roman 8 remains has jus' been made in Lincoln. In laying down a new water main, the workmen came upon the bases of three Doric columns in an admirable Btate of preservation. A wonderful memory is possessed by Wallace Chapman, a four-year-old boy in Kansas city. A poem of 19 stanzas wis read; to him three times, " and he could repeat it word for word. The process of making soap from j corn has just been discoyered by a {| Chinese chemist. This discovery promises to produce an entire change in the art of soap making. His proj duction is said to be absolutely pure, and better than the finest soap now e niad<\ I A Germain biologst says that the two sides of the face are never alike, j In two cases out of five the eyes are j out of line. One eye is stronger than , the other in seven persons out of ten, J and the right ear is generally higher than the left. , Meissonier was proud of his shapely f and delicate hands. He said that his > fingers were so sensitive that he could, with his eyes shut, lay on the exact i amount of color that he wanted on a given spot if somebody [.laced the - point of the brush upon it. » It is not, perhaps, universally * known that caviui, or caviare—- ' Shakespeare came neater the Greek * word than the moderns have done—is * the salted roe of the sturgeon—a fish p which 's found in great abundance on - the Southern coast of Russia. > Naturalists assert that in dry, clear weather swallows fly high, beciuse the insects which form their food at e j high in the air during such weather. VVhm the weather is cloudy and ' dam j, the insects settle nearer th" I eaith, and the swallows, of course, follow diem. I A great mistake is made by many I agriculturists in underrating the value i of oat straw as a food etuff. There is , no better material for building up a i strong healthy frame in cattle than . good oat straw ; and even for fatten- . ing purposes it has been proved to be i of considerable value. Nearly 2,500 persons commit suiciJe i i in Russia every year; the violent ' deaths of all kinds annually reach j ; 45,000, while 16,<)00 die of typhus , . fever, the most destructive disease in ] the country. j Phoenicia was at the pinnacle of I power between the years 2,000 and 750 b.c, and in fact, its people were ( the instructors and civilizcrs of the , whole western world. < An Italian statician has calculated that during the last hundred years ( 6,080 persons perished in 17 principal t maritime disasters, without reckoning < the lives lost in smaller shipwrecks f

and accidents. 1 It is the custom in Lima, Peru, to ( keep animals on the roofs of houses. A calf makes its first appearance on the roof, and never descends until it comes down as beef. j The depth at which some of the t Uelgian coal mines are worked is i something prodigious. In a pit at t Flenu the work is now down at 3,~UU feet; in a pit at Fiemerin, at L',Boo feet; and in the St Andre pit, at Montigny-sni-Sambre. at y,OOO ft. The Lancet relates a number of unmistakable cases of eczema produ. a cfd from gathering leaves of the r Virginia creeper. The effect —rash, c heat, and irritation of tlie skin—is w the same as that caused bj ivy and ft i dogwood on same persons. \