BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 12

BREVITIES.

Th« Empress • Frederick (Victoria) died on August 5, 1901. The steamer Maori wm wrecked near Cape Town on August 5. 1909. The laying of the crvble across the Atj lantic was completed on August 5, 1858. In the course of a year one London theatre alone spends .£2O,CCO on printing ! and £B.OOO on advertisements. i A well-built chimney, 100 ft high, will I sway from Sin to 4in_in a high wind without any danger of falling. 'The total number of inhabitants of the Isle of Man is now 50,542, which shows a decrease of 4,210 during the past 10 years. According to the calculation of a French statistician, the number of books published throughout the world is 128,550 each year. To'repair the laTge number of weirs on the Upper Thames, now in a state of decav. requires the immediate expenditure of £25.700. The Executive of the Council .of Churches decided to cordially commend the TavloT memorial appeal to the Christian public of Dunedin. A large number of visitors yesterday went by invitation to the Technical School in Union street, and saw the boys and <girls at work in the woodwork and cooking " classes. Captain Cargill died on August 6, 1860, and Six John M'Kenzde on August 6, 1901. "Never run after a tram-ear or a woman—there'll be another one along directly."—Hook's ' Proverbs.' Fined at a London court for drunkenness recently, defendant, a carpenter, informed the magistrate that lie had been *' putting the streets in splints." He was engaged in building Coronation stands. A Canadian snow plough, imported by the Mackenzie County Council, is reported to have done good -work in clearing the roads after the. late snowfall. The snow still lies a foot thick at Fairlie, but the sunny facings are clearing.