BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

Christchurch Exhibition opened November 1, 1906. The amount collected in New Zealand for the Salvation Army’s self-denial week was £13,460. Last year’s total was £12,480. The planet Jupiter, by the tremendous attraction it exercises, catches wandering comets and whirls them into our solar system. The largest searchlight in the world is that on the top of Pike’s Peak, Colorado. It flashes over 280 miles of the Rocky Mountains. A man whose son was sent from the King’s Lynn Police Court to an industrial school was said to be the father of twenty-five children. ' The record of wrecks in the Baltic Sea is greater than that of any other part of the world. The average is one a day throughout the year. After being lost for many years, the cypropedium fairieanium variety of orchid, for which a reward of £I,OOO was offered, has been found in Tibet. A Birmingham carpenter named Robert Dicks, aged sixty-four, was taken ill immediately after he was married, and died a few hours later. The Arab sheik, Hamed Waly, who acts as lecturer for the Arabic language in the Berlin Oriental Seminary, has been awarded the degree of a doctor of medicine. , The Chief Mechanical Engineer (Mr Beattie) has reported to the Minister of Railways that the allegations as to “ sweating ” at the Newmarket Workshops are without ■ foundation.