BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14413, 8 July 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

Hon. J. A. Millar bom July 8, 1855, Tuitpeka goldfield discovered July 8, 1861.

The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain was born on July 8, 1836.

After a long fast nothing is more grateful than a little fresh milk.

By 1960, according to H. Whitney, Canada will have thirty million people. It is because celery contains sulphur that it is useful in wording oil rheumatic pains. Tho barking oi a clog on the earth can be distinctly heard by balloonists at an elevation of four miles. The amount of carbon exhaled 'rom a man’s lungs each day, if it could be solidified, would equal that in a lump of coal weighing half a ton. A deputation from the Licensed Victuallers’ Association waited on the Prime Minister at Wellington yesterday. The- proceedings were in private. At the Free Food Exhibition in London fast month it whs demonstrated that vinegar. used in the preparation of cheap sauces and pickles, is chiefly composed of sulphuric acid, colored with burnt umber.

The first English motor hearse has made its appearance in Coventry. It should he purtictdarly useful when the cemeteries are tar out, or when the funeral takes place at a great distance, though it trill probably be a tong time before high speed will Ire thoudit seemly.