BREVITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 737, 10 June 1907, Page 7

BREVITIES.

The world's coal mines empljv ] ,500.000. Nearly 1000 children are horn in London workhouses every year. In India only one male in ten and one female in 160 are able to read. The hest cork comes from Algeria. There are 2,000,000 acres of cork forest in that count, y. Between 000 and 1000 America a and Canadian school teachers are. Lo visit England in tlie autumn. Another Alpine giant — the Monte Rosa, over 15,000 feet in height — has heen ascended by three German alpinists from Zermatt. In the three northern counties of Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland, are ahout 120,000 persons are engaged in coalmine work. As a result of King Alfonso's visit to England the Spanish military Order of Merit has been confered upon a number of iCing Edward's servants. Investigation of "black" snow, wliich fell in Carinthia, showed that it was full of tiny black six-legged insects ("snow fleas"), well-known in Alpine districts. A writ for £'1000 for slander nas been issued by Mrs Angela Elizabeth Simson, of Havelock, against David Charles Thorley, of Hastings.