INTERESTING GLEANINGS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2488, 5 July 1909, Page 3

INTERESTING GLEANINGS.

—f:; A gallon of water weighs li^bs. The washing of the Queen's household costs /3,0i4 per annum, ,y A match-making machine cuts and shape. s xo.ooo.cbo in ten hours. Nearly £ 300,006 worth of articles are pawned in London weekly. The harvest of 1879' is said to have been the worst ever known in England. In the smaller to\vns 4 of Germany only the sweeps wear the chimne'y-pot' hat. According to the insanity returns, it cases in 1,000 are caused by;love affairs. The Suez Canal shortens the distance be tween London and Bombay'by 4,265 miles. The annual death rato ; of children from violence and neglect in England is over 10,000. ' Between 1569 and 1888 only 121 persons were reported in London as having died from hydrophobia. Mr. Balfour, M.P., receives £aA-3 a year as Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Among every 1,000 bachelors there arc 38 criminals ; among married men the ratio is only 13 per 1,000. There have been four financial panics in Great Britain during this century. In 1814, 1825, IS47,and 1866. Great Britain used the first postage stamp in 1840, Brazil followed in 1845, and the United States in 1047. The greatest number of miles walked in six days was 623, by Littlewood, the athlete, at New York, in xSSS. The Mayor of Liverpool receives /2,70 a a year. The Mayors of Manchester to the present time have received nothing. Death by precipitation is one of the oldest modes ol capital punishment. It prevailed widely over the earth in primitive times. The fastest trains on the continent are said to he the expresses ol the Northern Bail way Company ol Franco. Their speed is 36 miles an hour. Queen Marguerite of Italy Is fond 0: Flunking, and is said to have declared that !.(■>■ cigarette is more essential to her comfort than anything else in life. The titled "Majesty" was not applied to the sovereign until the time ol James I. : before th.cn Kings of England were called " Your Highness.” London pays every year toi pas. which costs only to produce The gas companies make a profit o 71,300,000 upon a total capital outlay o less than £i4,000,000, Betting <jn the Weather.—Betting or the rainfall has become so prevalent a form of gambling in India that the Legislature has dealt with it in a bill that became law at the close of last year. The revenues obthc Duchy of Cornwall, which the Prince of Wales receives, are roaily / 70,000 a year. The Queen receives the revenues of die Ditchy of Lancaster, which are over /.)0,000 yearly. The largest Christian place of worship in the world is the Church of St. Peter's in Borne, which has capacity for a congregation of 53,000 persons. St. Paul's Cathcdit 1 , London, will hold a congregation ol 26,000. A Golden-maned Horse.— ln Boston there is a long golden-maned horse, slated to be the only one in the world. He is «(\en years old, weighs 1,435 pounds, and i sixteen hands high ; with a length of tail 0 m feel 3 inches, length of mane, 9 feet < in lies, and length of foretop, 8 feet 9inches Jllr.ll Collars Beneficial to Health -A lady doctor, who has been practising medicine for twenty-five years, relers to the high Miclici collar as the "only hygienic factor in the outfit of the fashion,abl* woman." "Island up for the high collar,’ she said at a recent medical meeting. “1 consider it cnc of the best protectionagainst throat trouble. In all the years c n v practice I have never had so few cases ui throat trouble, tonsilitis, and colds among the women as I have this fall and winter, ar.d I attribute it all to the style of wearinghigh collars hi the street, in churches and theatres, and also at home, where a draught is just as likely to produce cold as anywhere Bismarck’s Diet.—Here are Prince Bismarck's daily menus, as detailed by his rece nt visitor, Herr Brewer .—Luncheon . Cold brawn ; large meat puddings, roasted brown, with mashed potatoes; boiled duck with crisped cabbage ; Frankfort sausages l>ig fresh cheese. Beer, claret, strong!. aromatic white, wine. Dinner: Soup PAstcrs; cod; smoked beef, with mashe. pi-as am! sauerkraut; chicken; plum pud ding : dessert (varied). Champagne, hock 1 urgundv, Johannisburger Schloss. W» n-iss, by the way. any allusion to the drim which is so generally associated with tin -Chancellor that if is known in so-.in Muvivial circles as " Bismarck"—a mixture to wit, of beer and champagne. Occupation and Physical Peculiar; n ps, — A carpenter's right shoulder is ahr.o; 11.\aiiably higher than his lelt, in const ci.lucc of having to use his right arm ai ()-;■ time in planing and hammering ; will 1-1 \- shaving his shoulder runs with a jcrl •jr.-.i it imaliv comes natural to him to hok bin iself in that way. The right arm ol blacksmith, lor the same reason, is almot Ip pc; trophied, while the left arm, froi. ai-m-e, is ahncsi atrophied. A shoemakt almost always round-shouldered fron continually bending over the last betwcei his knees as he sews and hammers. Al -cod orators have most abnormally wid mouths. This is the direct consequence 1 ;];eir liubit of using sonorous words :■ speaking with deliberation and correct prumciation. If one practises this before -1 ■jlass one can see that the muscles in u checks arc stretched more than ordinal; •md the month is extended a great deal Indian in everyday conversation. T hen. tuna tore has something to do with it. large mouth, like a prominent nose, is sign of power. •■The Ploughman Homeward Plod ina Weary Way "—This line, Irom Gar can be expressed in various ways wit lion destroying ihe rhyme or altering the sensIt is doubtful whether another line of Engli;: .ran he found, the words of which admit 1 so many transpositions, still relain’n-, original meaning the while : x. The weary ploughman plods his home - ward way. 2 . The weary ploughman homeward plod his way. 3. The ploughman, weary, plods his hone ward way. 4. The ploughman, weary, homeward plot t bis way. 5. Weary 'the ploughman plods his home ward way. 6. Weary the ploughman homeward pbd.his way. 7. Homeward the ploughman plods hi; weary wav. C. Homeward the ploughman, weary plods his way. 9, HoVi.eward the weary ploughman plods his wav, :o. The homeward j foughman weary plods ids li The homeward fk\isari> swl (f.'D fify,mv mj/>