MULTUM IN PARVO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 August 1925, Page 11

MULTUM IN PARVO.

i All children must be qfl the streets

lot Halt, Ontario, Canada, on the ringdug of a bed. 'i'hii.9 old by-law - lias 'recently been b rang lit again into force. • Colours have different effects upon ‘us. Red and oranges are •stiunilating, 'yellow is cheering, green neutral, prn■ple .subduing ana violet depressing. Aliens to the numiber of 935 received 'certificates of naturalisation during *1924 -in Great Britain. Russia headed the list with 351 men and 14 women. " '

London’s smallest ‘church, St. Ethelburga within BAshopgate, dates back to .before the Eire of London, and so lean not be demolished. The dome of St. Peter's, Rionie,.lias lately been illuminated by 6000 lanterns, arid the Pope's address was •made to the vast assembly by 'loudspeakers. ' I Last year more vessels passed through the Bahama Canal .than ever before. 'The number was 5393/ and •the lees paid amounted 'to more, than four million, pounds. ... l Men eat, sleep, and .slack; too nVueh, 'breathe .top ; little, dpn’t drink %uffi,blent water, and think*too little. 'This is the scathing criticism of a doctor •who lectured --recently in London. i A well-known German .sportsman is 'just completing the task ol riding 1’250 .•miles, on "the bonnet ol : a motor ,cai,' 'travelling at a good speed. He embarked on ,this;. as the , result •of v.a wager. . 1 The swift and deeply-sunk Spanish river, the Guadalquiver, is to be made navigable between. Seville and Cordova by being canalised. It will need docks to hold up and control the waters. ‘ i i Paper was invented in China about the. commencement of the• second den-, tury of the Christian era, being made 'from the bark of trees, from bamboo, old rags, .silk hemp, or cotton reduced to pulp.

> Wells are now being driven to a ‘depth of over 220 feet under -London to reach water. A century ago the ■pressure of underground water was isti Hidenfc to liming it to the .surface wherever a boring was made.

i Burglars, “boot-leggers,”, and other ilaw-breakers are stated _to have filed •income-tax returns in Chicago. As the documents are confidential, the disclosure of their “professions” cannot ■be used against them, i The Archbishop’s palace at Canterbury (lEng.) is built on the site .of the Royal Pa l ace given by Et hel be rt to Augustine thirteen centuries, ago, and, ,al'though none of the original building remains, there are portions that go back almost as far. ' ■ ■ To improve the hearing of speeches ,in the House of Lords, loud speakers; are to be installed. .The microphones 4 will be disguised as books to the reference volumes against which they will stand. • Labe trade in Calais France, was originally Started by English people from Nottingham, and, though there are fewer engaged in it than formerly, a large portion of the masters and men are still English. \ Billiard-balls are made in several fejzes; those used in England are 2 l-il6in. in diameter; but on the Continent and‘in America, 2£in. to. 2sin. balls are used, r

A doctor was recently called to perform a major operation on a swan from Belvoir Bark, Belfast. The. bird had broken a wing through colliding with a tree during a storm and was found in great agony. A doctor was sent for and, while his assistant administered a n anaesthetic he amputated the wing, the bird making a -good recovery. i The first equestrian statue erected in Great Britain was that of Charles 1. at Charing Cross, facing Parliament The population of Madrid and its suburbs is now 1,200,000. . The rose is the emblem of secrecy in Greece, and was formerly hung over the table where guests were entertained, in token that nothing heard was to be repeated. Ancient butter lamps in the palace of the Dalai Lama, at Lhasa, Tibet, are to be replaced by electric lamps. Four miles of an ordinary spider’s thread weigh only one grain.

i Thomas Gileit, a British motorist, lias beaten the world’s record by oor-.eri-ng 1960 miles, in 24 hours, on : a Turin track. " i The gypsies came to England when iHeiury VIJI. wa-s King. The common people* thought they were magicians and conjurers. . ' . ' Good players on tie harp are the scarcest of all musical performers. Singers, actors, and ' public performers generally are able to speak with much greter ease and comfort in a building lighted with .electricity than in one where gaslight is used. *. The Scott monument. at Edinburgh i.s 200 ft high, and was erected in 1844. :It is designed to imitate Melrose Abbey. ~: ri ...ri

Fifteen old Etonians are in the present British Government. This famous school is represented in the House of Commons tby .102 If.P.’s who were educated at Eton.

In rearranging the lines at .Cannon Street Station, London, the engineers feel that the problem is so complicated, that they ar e first of all making a trial layout in a field. War bonus’ claims against the Liverpool Corporation by municipal employees, following a recent judgment concerning payments due to men who served overseas, are expected to amount to. between £IOO,OOO and £200,000. • .

Darwin quotes Henson as finding in a given space a number of worms, that would-give proportionately 53,767 to an acre. These would weigh 3561 b. The. test, was made in a garden where worms are twice as numerous as in a cornfield.

- -Residents in Lordship Lane," London, have complained of the ‘‘ vibration, noise, dust, and smell caused by the excessive motor omnibus traffic” of 22 services on their road.

A new wire rope that does not unravel when it is cut is on the British market. The strands are twisted before the rope is formed, so that they maintain their position even when severed. .. - - -

People as a rule hear better- with tlieir right, than with their left ear. • A train examiner at- Reading.has. .discovered the nest of- a thrush containing four eggs in the ironwork of a .goods truck. The mother - thrush sitting on the eggs was disturbed, but. sbedid not desert the nest. When the train moved

off she flew back to it. It is a curious fact that the countries of the tallest and, the shortest people of Europe—the Norwegians and the Laps —adjoin each other. . .-k '

•A message passes from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other- in about three seconds. V;. ;

.King George’s famous yacht the Britannia is regarded as one of i the fastest yachts afloat.;,,.She carries 9235 cubic feet ,of canvas when in full sail.

Bed is th'e commonest colour among the marine creatures found at great depths in the colder'parts of the ocean. A nest of seven duekling ■ was lately found in an East London. dock, in a hole in the quay wall, where: their mother had hatched them unnoticed- by a gang of men at work only 2ffc away. A Scotsman, who walked from Dunfermline to the Empire Exhibition at Wembley, also walked home. He un-' dertook to do the double journey of 870 miles for a £lO wager and a suit-of clothes. - A - small corner shop ■- in-Regent Street, London, is let at a rental of £4500 a year. Umbrellas are now being sold in brighter colours than ever in Great Britain.. Scarlet and emerald are both, favourite shades. Handles are alsq hewing adorned with - china beads. Coal discovered while laying a sewer in a buev street in Cotbridge, Lanarkshore, Scotland, is being dug up at‘the rate of nine or ten, ton.s a day.- The pit is 35ft deep. Bombay’s population is the most crowded of any in the world. There is one. house with 691 inhabitants and another with- 663.