BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 14688, 4 October 1911, Page 10

BREVITIES.

Gold wa-s discovered at Coromandel on October 4. 1852.

Tho revolution in Portugal and the declaration of the Republic occurred on October 4, 1910. A 401b salmon was caught in Norway the other day with a rod and line that bad not been used for 25 year?. The British General Poet- Office baa offered more recruits to literature than all the other departments of the Civil Service. Mars is distant from the earth 85,000,000 miles, and Saturn 842,000,000 miles, the latter being 5,400 times larger than Mara. The ditference between learning golf and motoring is (says ‘Puck’) that in golf at first you hit nothing, but in motoring you hit’everything. According to a United States consular report, there is not a single pawnbroker in Quebec, ihe last person in that business having died about thirty years ago. The attempt of the French Government to reduce the absinthe habit has boon attended xvith success. Last year the consumption was 3.785,552ga1, compared with 5,246,274gaJ in 1909. The charges against John Blocks of interfering with witnesses in the Kingsland murder trial ca-mc before the Auckland Police Court yesterday. Accused was remanded till Fridav.

Mr C. W. Bowerman, Af.P., secretary of the last Trades Union Congress, says that an eight-hour day for all workers will be the next great issue to bo taken up by the organised forces of Labor. During the year 1909 10 the water supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board, fondon, totalled 82,365,791.471g.iJ, the average daily supply per head of the estimated population being 31.87ga1. One of the customs of the opera season at Covent Garden is that the men members of the chorus must be clean shaven, and their contract includes an allowance of Is 6d per week for barber’s expenses. Tony Ferror, of St. Alary's, Pennsylvania, is probably the champion chicken stealer of the world. He has been remanded again on the' same charge after admitting the theft of 3,500 fowls. When a young man named Hall, of Fulmodestone,"Norfolk, accidentally shot himself while out rabbiting, his favorite dog guarded his body and refused to allow any of the search party to approach except Hall’s brother. In the island of San Domingo there is a remarkable salt mountain—a mass of crystalline salt, nearly four miles long, estimated to contain nearly 90,000,000, tons, and said to be clear that medium-sized print can be read through a block a foot thick. A simple ruse deceived the strike pickets at Liverpool. A number of “ blacklegs ” got to one of the boats disguised as clerks. 'They were well washed and well dressed, eveii to the wearing of cuffs and ties, and the make-up put the pickets off their