BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14530, 5 December 1910, Page 8

BREVITIES

Mozart died December 5. 1791. Th ; : Crvstal Palace can accommodate 100.000 people within its walls. The most ancient dictionary is in Chinese. It was compiled 1100 II.C. There were about twenty young women ;it the tea at the Y.W.C.A. Itooms yesterday. The French fight more duels than any other nation, the yearly average being 4.000. In Italy then 1 are more theatres in proportion to the population than in any other country. Hugh .Marshall, sheep farmer, charged in the Wairoa Court with sheep-stealing, was committed for trial. At the strangers' tea at the Y.M.C.A. Rooms yesterday an address was delivered by the president (Mr H. Webb). The patients in the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday uumhere I 154. There were two deaths in the institution last week. The largest hospital in the world is at Moscow. It was founded in 1764, and has accommodation for 7.000 persons. "You have been robbing poor people, and must go to gaol for a month "—Alderman Jenkins, at Salford. in dealing with a man who had been hawking sacks of coal much under weigh". James Morgan, freeman of 'London, and gieat-grandson of Sir Hugh Morgan, was sentenced at North London to six weeks' hard labor for making n falso statement and obtaining an old age pension of Is per week. "We havo clone with the lady who does not like to spoil her hands with any kind of toil, and who does not think it right that she aho.ikl know the sort of lives that aro constantly led by her sisters."— Mrs Despard, at Sheffield.