BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 15281, 5 September 1913, Page 8

BREVITIES

. Malta surrendered to the British on September 5, 1800. All British coins are legal tender in Canada. The French Republic was,proclaimed on the oth of September, 1870. The first telegraph message was sent across the Atlantic on the sth of September, 1853. Tho battle of Copenhagen was fought on September o, 1807. Britain owns 160,000 miles of ocean cables; Germany 10,000 miles. Adders were reported recently to be unusually numerous in Devonshire. Cigars are practically worthless when they have, reached the ago of 10 years'. j Ninety-five climbers are known to t have lost their lives on the Alps dui-iw the year 1912. : Grey veils, it is said, keep tho faco 1 from tanning more effectively than ' those of any other tint. The highest reward offered fo.- valni ables " believed to have been left in ;. , London cab" was £SOO. I Reports from Auckland indicate th-ii smallpox is being stamped out of the district. Only three new cases hav \ been located in the past three weeks. Tho Waikato is clear except for four convalescents. Gramophone selections, with an organ 'accompaniment by the rector, brightened a special cyclists' service in Finningley Church, Nottinghamshire. At tho annual stock-taking at Yarmouth Freo Library, only one volume, of the value of Is (3d, was found to be missing out of a total issue of 173,374. While engaged in trapping motorists on tho mam Portsmouth road at Cobham, a policeman who had left his bicycle by the roadside had the machine stolen. A fire which destroyed a 200-vear-old house at Yaxley (Huntingdonshire) is attributed to the wax in a bees' nest m a chimney having become ignited Over 11,000 miles of picture films were exported last year from America (says a Boston consular report), some /.200 miles of film being sent to Great Britain. _ Having nricked his finger while treating goos-sherry bushes' affected with American mildew, a market o-ardonor at Halcsworth, Suffolk, has died from blood-poisoning. William Hennen, said to bo th? oldest surviving postboy in England, died at Chatham recentlv, aged 93 <y f cw months ago he married a bride 10 years his junior.