BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14318, 17 March 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

St. Patrick's Day. Salaries of certificated male bead teachers in Tasmania range from £llO to £420 a year. Abount 400,000,000 bushels of wheat are annually produced within the British Empire. In three months 7,925,150 old age pension orders were cashed in the United Kingdom. _ The Mexicans cat salt with their oranges. They prefer the fruit so seasoned, because it is considered to be more wholesome. The establishment of Brown, Ewing, and Co. will be closed at noon on Saturday next, in consequence of the staff picnic. Russian railways are the most dangerous in tho world. Thirty persons in every million pasengers are either killed or hurt. If a Chinese sailor rescues a drowning man, he is hound by Chinese law to keep him and feed him for the rest of his life, A 10 per cent, tax on theatre tickets in France yields about £2.000,000 a year; Die money is devoted to the maintenance of tho poor. In a busy time about 15.000,000 eggs are said to come into London in a week. They nearly all arrive by train—very few by the Thames. By/means of a camera the wink of an syelid has been measured, and it was found that twenty winks can be made in four seconds. Government intend appointing a commission consisting of two engineers to inquire into the brake system adopted on the Auckland tramways. The Japanese have three different forms of salutation. One is for saluting inferior, one for saluting an equal, and'ansther for saluting a superior. At a preliminary meeting held last night it was decided to convene a meeting for ihe 4th prox. to take into consideration the question of providing baths for the north end of the City. A splendid supply of water has been tapped through the services of the water diviner at the rear of tho Consumptive Sanatorium at Palmerston. This will mean a large saving of expense to the controlling authority. At Christchurch yesterday Charles Ronald M'Pherson was committed for trial on a charge of having broken and entered the Church of Christ and stolen 15s from the collection box, and, having broken and entered tho Spiritualists’ Church and stolen an overcoat and fountain pen. ~ In the Wellington Supremo Court jesterday the Chief Justice gave judgment with tests for F. J. Macdonald, who claimed £SO under an accident policy from the Mutual Life.Association of Australasia, in respect of the loss of an eye, duo to liquid spurting into it opmcg a A of cheese r