BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 15065, 23 December 1912, Page 1

BREVITIES.

9T?J ch ?' T & Al * wri S ht *« born on the 43rd of December. 1732. In the Netherlands there are 200 miles ot canals, a .,id another 3,000 miles of navigable waterways.

The number of miles per annum travelled by motor omnibuses in the borough of Hackney is 2,202,520.

Ihe latest project for municipal enterprise is a penny gymnasium, which was discussed recently by the St. Pancras Council An interesting souvenir of Napoleon in the form of a volume of Goethe's ' Werthev.' which was the Emperor's inseparable companion m all his campaigns, and which was lost, on the retreat from .Moscow has just been discovered in a cobbler's shop at Dorpat, Russia.

Lord Roberts sailed for South Africa on the 2ord of December, 1899. Founded in 1774. the London Fire Brigade, which hy an Act of 1888 is under the control of the t.C.C, consists of 1,365 ofheers and men.

A'fish' with' four feet like those of n parrot has been caught off the coast of Venice, California. It has a head like that of a horned toad, and a shark's tail. According to recent returns, over 66.660.000 net tons of shipping, with cargoes and in ballast, entered the ports of the Lnited Kingdom in 12 months. A man named Graham, of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, who had been bald for years, is showing signs of a new growth'of hair since he had a severe fight with a catamount.

Germany and France spend annually over £2,200,000 on forestry.

The First Lord of the Admiralty is always a member of the Cabinet and "a Privy Councillor.

Havine 60 stops and 8.000 pipes, the organ at' Haarlem, North Holland, is one of the largest in Europe. There were 124 patients in the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday, as 'against 140 the previous Saturday, there were four deaths in the institution last wek.

The first English Eleven arrived at Melbourne on the 23rd of December, 1861.