Tit Bits.

Hastings Standard, Volume XI, Issue 5567, 27 July 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)

Tit Bits.

On the average, in Russia there is only out) village school for 12.000 persons. Football was a crime in England during the reign of Henry VIII. About 120 new'books on medicine and surgery aro published yearly. Toads, bats, and snake.? can live longer without food than any other creatures. * * * Sit hundred thousand pounds of tea ire consumed in England daily. It is believed that in China there is 20 times as mwli ooal «is in all Btircpe. * * * The most recent estimate of the wealth of Great. Britain and Ireland is £12.000,000.000. * * # A sovereign invested at fire per cent, compound interest will, in 00 years, amount to over £lB. * -a- * Britain now spends over £10.000.000 a year for the relief of the poor of her own country. * * # Anions; the objects found during the excavation in Egypt was a whole company of wooden soldiers Isin. in height. ***.'- Tho fir-tree is the commonest of all trees, and is found in every part of the ■world. * * * The Black Death of 1348 killed 20.000.000 of Europe's inhabitants, and ona-third of Britain's population. * * * Tlio wife of Mr. Wood, of Mobile. Alabama, burned all his clothing because ho refused to buy her a new dress. # * « Tsr<wl was dearest in England in 1800 when it reached 22id ft quartern loaf, and in August. 1812, when it was 21^d. * * * Two new Alpine tunnels. b">ne.afh the Splngen and the Greina. Orisons, are being considered by Switzerland. The latter will bo 17 miles long. * * * Over 50 tons of leather are n«?d annually for covering footballs in the T'nited Kingdom. The hides of at least 1500 animals are used for this purpose. According to the ancient practice of Oriental monarchs, the Chinese Emperor rewards those who bring him good news, and punishes those who bring bad news. * * » The Inter-State Commerce Commiss:on hare begun to inciuire at Washington into charges against 50 railways of giving rates to the Standard Oil Trust. * # # As the result of a bequest a beacon is to be erected on the Men Tensel Rock. T'shant, where the Brummond Castle was wrecked, and two other beacons in the vicinitv. * * * '•Prince." a collie doe. has just retnrnrvt to New York after a tour of 12.000 miles in Europe in a motor-car. Ho was accompanied "by his master. Mr. Alexander Pwyer. 1