MULTUM IN PARVO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 August 1925, Page 11

MULTUM IN PARVO.

“Ancient” coins, many of which (antedate the (Christian ora, arc made dn largo quailtitie.s in London, and find a sale all over tho world.

- Lt is •said that land cultivated by irrigation is more productive than tho Hand whore rainfall moisture is sufficient to mature the crops.

A British aeroplane recently flew to Switzerland with on e and a half tons of gold, and returned to London the same day. The journey of well over iOCO miles toon about 13 hours.

Specially for one-armecl pianists, a concert piece for the piano, loft hand only lias just been composed by Richard Strauss.

A pair of North American robins which recently arrived at the London Zoo are of an intense blue all over. The coalfields of British Columbia are capable of yielding 10,000,000 tons of coal for 1000 years.

Using an alcohol base fuel made from apples and potatoes, a biplane flew a distance of 90 miles in one hour.

Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, is less than a century old, although it now has a population of nearly 150,000.

Twenty million more eggs and ten million more gallons of mi hr were sold in London last year than in 1923. Sponges are found in gieat quantities on the coast of Tunis (Africa;, from the Kirkennah Islands to the frontiers of Tripoli.

Licorice root grows wihl in Asia Minor, and, until a few years ago, it was totally neglected. Now Asia Minor exports over £IOO,OOO worth each year. Brazil produces on the a\e. ag 360,000 tons of coffee per annum —that is, about four-fifths ■of the wnoie amount consumed in the world. Recently litigants at Bow Country Court were named Bacon and Kidney respectively. In the Mortfaloome Dockyard, Italy, the keel of a passenger motor ship of 25,000 tons has been laid. Sh e will, when completed, be the largest motor ship afloat. Canada, has 23 varieties, of fur-bear-ing animal*. specimens or ail these skins are shown in the Canadian Pavilion at. Wembley.

About 100 tribes of Indians are supposed to have become extinct since Columbus ‘discovered America. The reindeer industry of Alaska is now estimated to be worth more than the United States paid Russia for the whole country

Envelopes were first used in their present form in 1839. Pigeons were first used as carriers of messages 700 years ago. At the wedding of Fireman Martin, of Belfast, the fire brigade formed an arch of c.ay pipes, under which the bridal pair left the church. Twenty-five thousand children, with 30 bauds and banners and bowers, took part in the annual procession in Manchester of the Church of England Sunday Schools. The fiercest of all a'nimals is tho black panther. Ice-bergs (somjstinios last jlor two hunched years

.if.ica has nearly seven hundred .anguages or dialects. A turoan requires from ten to fourteen yards of cloth. Beos «uek over 3,000,000 flowers to gather iio, oT iioney. A tax on fat people, as a means to promote health, is suggested by a doctor. Practically all tho timber used in England for cigar-boxes c-omes from Cuba. “Zapthnathpaaneah” is a Christian name in the- latest Tlranet (Eng.) directory. The oldest known English picture is one of Chaucer, painted on panel, in the year 13S0. The Ash.molaean Museum, at Oxford, •was founded in 1679, and is the okle*t in England. Disused clothing sold last year by the - London Metropolitan Police •brought- in a sum, of £2932. Vigorous sneezing is a proof of a ■robust constitution. People in feeble health .seldom sneeze. The badge worn by tlio Lord Mayor of London is .studded with diamonds to the value of £120,009.

For the first time in the history of flight, a film was exhibited recently in the saloon of an aeroplane.