All Sorts

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 4 February 1909, Page 198

All Sorts

Dogs in Hamburg are taxed according to size. There are 175 different pieces in the average watch. The wheels of a watch travel 3558| miles per annum.' Football was considered a crime in thereignof Henry Gold can bo beaten 1200 times thinner than printingpaper. * & Ital Sixpence a day is * he average pay o~f olive-pickers in o£ each* montl™ 8 ° f JaPaU Cl ° S6 ° n * he &TSI &nd ~ fifteenth Twenty-five per cent, of -the female population of Scotland work for their living. French doctors are prohibited from receiving money bequeathed to them by patients. w^y The coal-mining industry of the United Kingdom gives employment to 1,000,0u0 people. In twelve months tigers in India were responsible for the death of 698 human beings and 28,714 head of cattle. The man who can tell you how to* write poetry, run a bank, expound the law, and play the fiddle, is the kind of man that generally has to borrow money off his friends to " live on. Five ocean liners which arrived at New" York from Europe on December 9 had a record number of immigrants for any single day-5057. Over 1500 of these were by the German liner from Hamburg. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so valuable as common sense. There arp forty men of wit to one man of common -sense; and he that will carry nothing- about with him but gold will be every day at a loss for change. By an Italian law every circus which does not perform every, act- promised in the printed programme, or which pleads the public by -means of pictures, is liable to a line of £100 for each offence. Hansom, the inventor of the cab which bears his name, only made £450 out of the invention. He disposed ?. f iv.«i v .« Patent for £10,000, but tlie company who bought it tailed, and were unable to pay up the full amount. Her mother asked little Dot to go into the next room to see if the clock was going, for she had not heard it strike all the afternoon. _ Dot came, running back, put her head in at the door, and exclaimed- ' Why, no mamma clock isn't going; it's des stannin' still and waggm' its tail.' The clock which was actually made by the-Royal hands or Louis XVI came- into the possession of a member of the Rothschild family some years ago. It is probably the most valuable clock in existence, no less than £33,610 having been paid for this remarkable timepiece. A little girl was sitting on the floor crying. After a while she stopped and seemed busied in thought. Looking up suddenly she said : B ' Mamma, what was I crying about ? ' ' Because I wouldn't let you go out.' ' Oh, yes ! ' And she set up another howl. Steps are being taken " for the organisation of an association for the purpose of -celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915. It is designed, if the scheme is found feasible, to liold a ' world's fair there. T y °i 1c1 c 1 1 eadm g men - OBL isthmus have heartily endorsed the plan, which if sueessfully carried out would mean, it is believed, much for the country. A short time ago, in a certain town in the North Island a lecture was being givdn on the evils of drink. Yes,' said the lecturer, alcohol has ruined our country, and has slain its thousands, but when has bright clear, cold water caused the death of anyone?' And , from the back of the -audience a gruff voice answered: - When he couldn't swim.' The lecturer gave it up as? libp'eless. •'-, : A very matter-of-fact- S6otciiwoman balled to see a neighbor an elderly woman, who had been ailing for some time. 'And how do you find yourself to-day, Janet?' was the greeting. 'Ah, Martha, I'm very bad. This cold, damp weather'll be the end -of me. I'll be a dead woman-sbefore very long.' ' Hoots,- toots, woman I You've been saying that any time these last twenty years. ' I've no patience with you. I'll tell you what it is. You want firmness of mind. Fix a day- for your dying— and stick to it.'