Varieties.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 190, 10 August 1895, Page 4 (Supplement)

Varieties.

It is said bhab a house well built of firsbolaes brick will outiaab one constructed of granite.

In London only a twelfth of the postoffice is employed on Sunday duby, and the average length of Sunday duby is six hours. The income of bhe Easb London Church Fund for 18S4 amounted to £18,797, an excess of £400 over the income received in 1893, and bhe highest figure on record. The Emir of Bokhara, who has recenbly gone to a mineral water cure in bbc Caucasus for an affecbion of bbc feeb, was obliged bo obbain bhe permission of bhe Czar of Russia before leaving bis own dominions. , A company is now in process of formation for bhe building of a ship railroad from Bordeaux to Marbonne. The line will be a little less than 300 miles long, and will cosb considerably less than a ship canal. The bime of transib will be only one-fitbh as long. A balloon equipped wibh self-registering inabrumenbs to measure the temperature and pressure of, the atmosphere at high altitudes was recently lot-loose in Berlin, and came down, with the instruments in good condition, in Bosnia. The instruments showed that the balloon had reached an elevation of 53,872 feet, over ten miles. The thermometer bad fallen to 52 degrees below zero—the lowesb it records. Another balloon senb up laber reached 72,000 feeb above the earth, or thirteen and a half miles. ' Figaro,' of Paris, proposes the following code of rules for wheelmen and pedestrians : ' Every pedestrian is to be supplied with a bell and a signal horn, which he shall sound on crossing a street whenever he espies a cycle on the horizon. Ab nighb bhe foob passenger shall carry on his breasb a lantern conbaining a lighbed candle. Franco shall be entirely levelled, in order to save cyclists bhe annoyanco of hill climbing. The bax on cyclists shall be abolished, and a tax on pedestrians shall be substituted. Any foot passenger who. by hie awkwardness and want of attention, shall occasion the fall of a cyclist by allowing himself to be run over ahall be liable to a fine of 100 francs, and for a repetition of the offence shall be transported to a mountainous re gion. True worbh is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nabure's bableb, bhe brubh is-cerbainly wribben bhereon.—-Lavaber. More water glideth by the. mill thab wots tbe miller of.—Shakpere.