BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14002, 8 March 1909, Page 8

BREVITIES.

A rancle crow destroys 700.000 in.-r-ct? ;i year.

The Forth bridge contain.- 43,000 ton of steel.

The average depth of the Kurdish Chan riel is 110 ft, '

There are 290 species of moss found in the British Isles.

The Hon. T. W. Hislop has decided not. to .-taiid for reclcctio;! as M;iu>r of Wellington. The lecturer at hist evening's meeting of tlif Socialist party was Mr Terry. His subject was ' War."' I'"eilding municipal swimming baths, constructed "at a cost of £1,500, olticially opened nn Saturday. The sellip.LT of wine in Spain on a Simday is prohibited, and inns must close by midnight on Saturday. The Kmperor (if China and the Viceroy of India between them govern more thau half the population of the world.

A medical journal declares that the east wind does sonnv people as much good as if they visited a bracing sea. coast. According to a Herman investigator, a .-mokf-r sends into the air about four billion particles of dust at every | I'fY.

'Charley's Aunt' has been running now for sixteen years without a. break. It wa.s revived in London a few weeks ago.

!i is e.-.-timated thct. the Kaffirs steal £250.000 worth of diamonds every year from ih'.i Kimherley diamond mines.

An elephant works from the age of twelve to the age of eighty. He can haul 15 tons, lift n, and cany 3 tons. It is said that drier! currants given to horses occasionally instead of oats will increa.se the animals' powers of endurance. 'The majority of color-blind people be long to the educated classes, of whom ro fewer than 4 per tent, are thus afflicted.

t k-rmany has the largest trade union in the world. It, comprises 335,000 metalworkers, of whom a large proportion are women.

Among- birds the swan, lives to be the. oldest, in extreme cases reaching. .300 years.- The falcon has been konwn to' live over 162 year'%

The total amount of cable resting on the bottom of the sea represents a value of £50.000,000. Tt costs about £2CO per mile to make and lav.

A .strange fear of being poor (says Canon Wright, of Manchester) besets some met. as they become richer, and prevents them from fulfilling the duty of giving. Last, week 36 patients were admitted to the Dunedin Hospital and 26 were discharged. There were two deaths. 'The, number in the institution on Saturday was 138.

A man who received an old age pension at Oreat Bentley, Essex, had £2BO invested., owned a. house worth £3OO, "and was in receipt of 4s a week sick pay from a. benefit, society. His wife had £512 invested at a low Tate of interest.

The highest pens to date in the Blenheim egg-laying competition are:—Edelston':j White Leghorns, 1,199; Silcock's White Leghorns, 1,186: Brown's- --Wh-'te Leghorns. 1,134; Miss Brown's Black Orpingtons, 1.152; Bowman's White Leghorns, 1.149. The February monthly prizes were, gained by rJilcook (109) and W. Sowmaa (93).