BRIEF MENTION

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 119, 13 August 1907, Page 6

BRIEF MENTION

Steel rusty seven times as rapidly as iron. The first sunshine recorder was Campbell's, invented m the year 1853.- It consists of a ball of glass— in fact, a burning glass, so that the sun burns its own record on a curved piece of cardboard placed below the ball. A fissure opened on Mount Vesuvius on May 26 near the ancient lava strata at Boaco Trecase, noxious gases being emitted. Nine peasants were overcome by the fumes, one being killed. — Reuter. The twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of E_ra contains all the letters of the alphabet except the letter " j." It is reckoned that a horse will live twenty-five days without solid food, merely drinking water; seventeen days without either eating or drinking ; and only five days when eating solid 'food without drinking. The human voice will carry three milethrough a twenty-foot speaking trumpet. The* usual so-called temperance drink averages at least 3 per cent, of alcohol. The Swiss Aero Club has already 162 members, including tive ladies. The Abyssinian Army has now fifty modern guns. The army includes over 200,000 men. The reason amethysts are so little used for jewellery is that they lose their color at nighttime. The Russian verst is much shorter than the English mile. It is only 1,165 yards. Sweden has a mile of 11,703 yards. A white diamond, weighing 73£ carats, has been found on the Pniel diggings, near Kimberley, by an American named Lincoln, who sold it for £1.000. Lord Avebury says the morning is the best time for work. # There are 5,400 square miles of coalfields m Great Britain. The King of Denmark has one unique distinction. He is the only reigning sovereign who has a son reigning as king. Syrian tobacco has ?ess nicotine than any ether; Virginian has most, the percentage m the 1 attar risi.ig to 7 per cent. Mr Charles Haydock, of Worksop, the oldest cricket player m England, has* just celebrated his golden wedding. He played cricket for Worksop Town for over fifty years. Sheffield Corporation are having some of --the dry macadam roads m the city sprayed with tar, with a view to reducing tlie dust nuisance caused by motor car and other traffic. Ihe horses of the British Army cost the nation £25 a year apiece for forage. A Nebraska lU.S.A.) liquor firm was fined £10 last month for adorning beer bottles with the Stars and Stripes. Great Britain has sixty submarines built or building, and all the other European Powers, excluding France, have not fifty built or building between them".' "Owing to the overcrowded condition of our columns, several important births, and deaths are unavoidably postponed," is the remarkable announcement made by the Colesburg ' Advertiser/ Cape Colony. Fifty officers out of the 109 who survive attended the annual banquet ofthe Delhi survivors, over which General Sir John Watson presided m London last month.