BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14575, 25 May 1911, Page 8

BREVITIES.

In Spain the Soveieign comes of age at sixteen. Pennies contain 95 parts of copper, 4 of tin, and 1 of zinc. The world's coalfields cover at least 1.1 million square miles. There are no fewer than eighty-six general holicfays in a year in Russia. In a single, month a eatorpillar devours 6.000 tinn'fi iic own weight in food. Salt, petroleum, matches, and playing cards are Slate, monop-olios in (.{recce. The. light from a star takes over three years reaching the surface of the- earth. The most criminal age, says the Rector of Mnrylebono, is between thirty and forty. Two Englishmen have made a cycling tout- through India at a. cost of 10i> per week. In l'aris during 1010. 30.955 marriages took place, while 1,926 divorces were granted. The ha.t and muff worn by Mrs Melville, who disappeared from Wanganui on Saturday, were found ye-sterday on tho river bank four miles above tho town. Footprints were discovered leading to the water. The outward Suez mail by the Aorangi from Wellington reached Sydney last night, too lalo to connect with the express mail going forward by the Norddoutscher Lloyd steamer to-day, which is due in I,ondon tour daw- later tlian tho P. and 0. boat.