WORLD-WIDE TRAVELLING.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2287, 4 March 1912, Page 2

WORLD-WIDE TRAVELLING.

Mike and Dennis were two Irish peasants. "Oi bear they send messaget now widout wires or poles,:' said Mike. " Faith, Dinnis, it's wonderful toiniea we're livin' in." "It is, Mike. Shure, the way things is goin' now we'll soon be thravelling all over the world widout leavin' home." Interesting statistics on th« French sardine industry show that there are 200 factories on the French coast engaged in canning the fish ; 14,000 women prepare the fish as they come from the nets, and 2,500 men are employed in canning them. The aver age annual production of tinned sardines is 20,000 tons. About 121b. of tin is used on every 106 square yards of the sheet iron from which the tin» are made. Two loaves of bread baked ninetythree years ago in Germany form t/ie relic contained in a glass case at the home of Joseph Hummel, a business man in the States. They are reminders of the famine that swept Germany in 1816 anh 1817. Wheat then sold for £l7 a bushel. The loaves were heirlooms, in the Humm»l family, and came into Mr. Hummel's hands when he was visiting his old home in Wurtemberg twenty years ago.