All Sorts

New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 38

All Sorts

The Czar has a single estate covering 100,000,000 acres. The responsibility of tolerance lies with- those who have the wider vision.

Truth does hot do so much good in the world as its counterfeits do harm.

When is vice most dangerous?— When it clothes itself in the garb of virtue.

The Clyde shipbuilding yards built 500 vessels during 1907, as compared with 372 the previous year. • '

The deepest hole in the world has been bored in Silesia. It has reached a depth of about 7000 feet, and passes through 83 beds of coal. 'There, Mary,' said a lady, proudly exhibiting a picture of herself to her servant ; ' that is a portrait of me painted when I was a child!' ' Bless us, -mum,' said the domestic, ' what a pity it is we have to grow up, ain't it?'

' As I recall things, you once had a future before you,* said the old friend.

' Yes,' replied the fate-tossed man, ' but you see, I lived so fast that I got ahead of it.'

Little Nellie, aged nine, said to her father the other evening : ' Papa, I want to ask your advice.' ' Well, my dear, what is it all about? 1 ' What do you think it will be best to give me for a birthday present?'

Ernest had- been absent for several days. His teacher asked the class if anyone could tell why Ernest did not come to school. One little hand went up, and its owner said : • Please, teacher, he's sick— he's got the chicken coops.' Another girl was absent. 'Can anyone tell me why Marie is away?' asked this same teacher. Patsy gave the reason and piped out, ' Marie's got an illustrated tooth.'

The total production of sugar in all parts of the world during 1906 was 14,312,716 tons, of which 7,317,472 tons were cane sugar and 6,995,244 tons beet. In the production of cane sugar British India led with an output of 2,223,400 tons, while in beet sugar Germany stood first, producing 2,362,187 tons. In the consumption of sugar per head Australia led with i2 9 lb, the United States and the United Kingdom following with Sgib and 81 lb respectively.

The chief reason for the migratory habits of certain birds is the question of food supply. Such birds are chiefly insect-feeders, and would starve if they remained for a winter in a temperate climate where snow lies for weeks at a stretch. It is stated that even frail-looking' birds make extraordinary long flights, in some cases as long as 10,000 miles. The little brown sandpiper's true home is in Northern v Asia, yet before the northern 'winter it escapes to the southern shores of Australia. "

A distinguished savant, famous for his erudition, was ome taking part in a game of goJf. His play was so wretched that in his humiliation he turned to his caddie and asked, • How is it that I, a man acquainted with all the. arts and sciences' ami the dead and living languages, cannbt play a better game- than this?' 'Weel, sir,' said the caddie, 'it's jest like ..this'": ye\ %iay ' ken a' about the sma' affairs and wi' things connectit wi-' them, hut ye maun understaun' that it takes a man wi'* a' heid to- olav gowff. ' - . " *

A curious souvenir is preserved in the. Bank of. England in the shape of a note for 10 00 with which Admiral Lord Cochrane paid his fine when he was falsely accused of spreading . W!th an interested object a rumor that Bonaparte was dead in 1814 so as to cause a rise in the price of stocks. The sum mentioned was raised in subscriptions of a penny by his Westminster constjtuents. The note is endorsed • with the. name' of the intrepid but ill-used salt, and has inscribed on ft a -sentence > winch he expresses- the hope that one day he will prove his innocence, and triumph over his accusers. That consummation was not effected until eighteen years later, when he was reinstated by William IV.

To the. thousands of sickly," run-down, nervous, full-of-pain and suffering mer, and women, we recommend with, all honesty* and confidence this true friend, 'Dr. Ensor's Tamer Juice. ?*«*