BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13144, 28 December 1908, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Sooth Australia founded December' 28, 1886. •Last, week thirty-three patients were dwcha*ge"d/4rom the Dtuwdih Hospital ami iwehty-five were admitted. There were •wo deaths. Ther. patients ia the institu•ion on Saturday;numbered 116. .A dwelling at Nelson, occunod by Mr Percy; Fabian, was destroyed >y fire. The insurances are ,npt available. ■ Canada has now 23,000 miles of railway. <*ieenland's population does not number I.uOO. . N early all the" world's asbestos is mined n Canada. The coal output of Japan is 11,500,000 t-j'is a'year. A whale is capable of swimming twelve miles an hour. The Protestants in the world now number • 180,000,000. The ordinary 'arson's lungs contain 76.000,000 air colli. Whirlwinds in irabia will excavate pits in the sand 250 ft deep. Of all white nations the Americans are the biggest fruit eaters. Monaco possesses the smallest army knowi>-a. body of 126 men. T »NKvi; -'Vye million words aie sent over the -l'-lamtic cables annually. Some of the olive trees in Turkey are held to be over 1,000 years old. A typewriter with a keyboard in Hebrew and , English has been designed. A greater variety of fish can be found in the Nile than in any other river. Nearly 2,000 memorials to Bismarck have been erected in Germany. Cloves come largely from Zanzibar, where the tree thrives remarkably well. A racehorse galloping at. full speed clears bom 20ft to 24ft with each stride. More public clocks are displayed in New Fork than in London and Paris combined. An eagle has lived in captivity in Dirnean. Perthshire, for a period of thirtyseven yeare. During every minute of the world's twenty-four hours 3,000,000 matches are struck. The temperature of Egypt ie gradually being lowered, owing to the irrigation of the countrv.