VARIETIES.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3006, 25 October 1898, Page 3

VARIETIES.

b London employs 500,000 factory'hand*. 1 L'ght-liaired people are longer lived, as a rule, than dark. F Suicides are more common among i bachelors than with married men. The average annual amount of sickness , ill human life is thirteen days. Hard-boiled eggs should boil for twenty ' minutes to make them digestible. Twenty million acres of the land of the United Stat< b are held by Englishmen. Nearly all the Royal personages of 1 Europe are cousins. i Nearly £500,000 i 8 spent every week L bj London tiruis on advertising. The finger-nails grow between one and a-half and two inches yearly. The population of India grows at the rate of over 3,000,000 per annum, i Eighteen million cubic feet of water , fall over the Niagara Falls every minute. Desertion from the Army costs the country £120,000 annually. In some districts of Australia the kangaroo has been almost exterminated. Soldiers in the Italian army are allowed cigars as part of their daily rations. The Irish acre is equal to one English acre, two roo^s, nineteen perches. Half a teaspoonful of sugar will nearly always survive a dying fire. The parchment used on the best banjoes is made from wolf-ekins. The salary of the American President for one year if paid in gold, would weigh exactly 200 pounds. Oatmeal is more largely used for food purposes in New South Wales than in any other part of Australia. One inch of rain falling upon one square mile is equivalent to about 17,500,000 gallons of water. Many paupers have lived to be 100 years old, but there is no record of a millionaire having attained that age. "Though lost to sight to memory dear," as the man said when he paid his dinner bill. An American robin was recently found near Manchester. Naturalists wonder how it crossed the ocean. Iv Germany the men as well as the women wear wedding-rings. When either dies the survivor wears both. Don't be afraid to push your way in the world. The richest man now living was born without a penny in his pocket. When a nmn considers himself as "one in a thousand," he naturally regards the others as ciphers. A bee, with all its industry, energy, and the innumerable journeys it has to perform, will not collect much more than a teaspoonful of honey in a season. Buliet-proof cloth does not seem to make much headway in military circles ; but it ought to be used to great advantage in small boys' trouserings. List year the Salvation Army in London provid' d 3 22L,917 meals and 1.339,246 lodgings for the poor. Who says the Army is not doing good work ? " We find that he came to his death from trying to cut out Joe Willett in courting Susie Jackson," was the verd:et recently of a coroner's jury in Arkansas. The average young man of to day reckons that " money was made round to go round ;" but the old man of eighty years experience in money matters differs with him. He says that "money was made flat to stack." The question is now being discussed in Chicago as to whether physicians should wear beards. One doctor has declar d that the day is not far distant when all physicians will go cleanly shaven. Ifc is claimed that beards aid in spreading contagion. Potassiumorthodinitrocresolate is the appalling name of a new antiseptic in Germany. Those who stutter will please pronounce the word " wheel- barrow." It will save such a lot of time. Schoolmasters should teach the infant scholars the alphabet by it. It is quite easy for the compositor to set up the name in type, but be good enough and not ask him to pronounce it, as a refusal oftimes offends.