BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14308, 5 March 1910, Page 12

BREVITIES

Tho Chancellor of the Exchequer has seven private secretaries. Tho population of Queensland is 578,548, • an increase for the year of 20,511. i Two large dirigibles will shortly bo available for the Home War Office. i Out of 161 members of tho Greek Chamher, 150 voted in favor of the convocation ; of the Revisionist Assembly on the 14th i September. "I likes to ’ear you preach extrumpery, 1 sir," remarked the old parishioner to the j new parson; "yur languidgc is that wonderful fluid and spiritons." Professor Ostwald. winner of the Nobel j prize for chemistry, says that nearly all 1 great men of science spring from the middle i dneces. They very rarely spring from the I working classes. The rclritl of tho Countess Tnrnaowhka, j Prclukoff pi lawyer who was enamored of - her), and a servant girl named Perrier for 1 complicity in the murder of Count Kumar- I owski has been begun at Venice. | At the North of England Educational : Conference at Leeds a speaker- declared i that pupils centred more interest upon 1 athletics than work, and stigmatised this as ] a stain which should ho removed from our I educational system. | "The tendency of tho botanist and the chemist and other scientific teachers is to 1 set- problems which would not give a. head- I ache to a caterpillar,” said Sir J. J. Thonip- 1 son at a conference of science teachers at Westminster School.