MULTUM IN PARVO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 September 1925, Page 11

MULTUM IN PARVO.

Edible lislx cannot live at a greater depth than GOOi't. A rifle bullet travels at a speed oi 1500 miles an hour. Fish are artificially reared in some 500 “farms” in America. Platinum costs £24 an ounce—six times as much as gold. Hollow ,'steel spheres are used in Sweden for billiard balls. A full-grown oyster will produce about nine million eggs. Yarmouth’s weekly catch of herrings numbers 300,000,000. Over a thousand periodicals are published in China every year. Sixty thousand ounces of platinum were used in the world last year. The giant bamboo, which sometimes reaches 120 ft., grows a foot a day. A strip of country 200 miles long in Pennsylvania contains 40,000 oil wells. Eighty per cent, of the 130,000,000 iuhaDitants of Soviet-Russia are peasants. The United Kingdom takes about half the world’s total production ol tea. Glass windows were first introduced into England l in the eighth century. Most of the trans-Atlantic liners are captained by ex-ofiicers of tne Royal Navy. Rain has recently fallen in parts oi South America for the first time since 1551. In Denmark those who cut clown forests must plant an equivalent area with trees. Birds, with the exception of the skylark and the woodlark, do not sing iii their flight. At twilight, blue appears much lighter than it is, red darker, and yellow slightly darker. China. is only, half the size of the United States, yet it has nearly four times the population. Telephone subscribers in Canada now total over 1,037,550, more than one in nine of the population. A quarter of a million natives work in the gold and diamond mines of Rhodesia for 50s a month. By Government orders, no more than 100,000 seals may be taken from Behring Strait in any one year. The coalfields of British Columbia are capable of yielding 10,000,000 tons of coal for one thousand years. Marriage is now forbidden in China under the age of eighteen; previously the legal age bad been fourteen. Deafness is more prevalent in cold than in warm countries, the ear being sensitive to changes in temperature. Licenses are required in Great Britain under the Gun License Act for anything that can discharge a missile; even poo-guns are thus liable. The food bill for an average Canadian family of five persons for a week is stated to be £1 14s lid, or 7s 4d less than the average cost in America.

The Los Angeles (U.S.A.) police are beiiio; sued for damages by a. woman whom they described in an official note as "niggardly” and “hatehed-faced.” So that they could quarrel without the police interfering, a young Texan couple got .married. They liad been arrested for' creating a disturbance in the public streets. Mosquitoes which carry malaria are being lought in some of the American States by means of aeroplanes, from which poison is sprayed on the breeding places of the pest. The word “tweed,” as applied to cloth, really means, “twilled,” and has nothing to do with the River Tweed, although much Scotch tweed is made in the basin of that river. Westminster clock (London) is regulated (by electric machinery from Greenwich, and has a special contrivance for making the first blow of the hour strike exactly at the right time. G n a recent occasion, dance music was broadcast from the Savoy Hotel, London, via Chelmsford, was received in Pittsburg, U.S.A., re-broadcast there, and received back again in Eng. iand. The Order of Merit, designated by the letters 0.M., was instituted bp King Edward VII. in 1902; and the man on whom it is conferred may deem it one of the highest ' compliments the Sovereign can bestow. Police telephone boxes in Sunderland, ;by which a constable can summon a motor car to take a pirisoner to the nearest station, have eliminated five divisional police stations, at a saving . of £75,000 a year. The total gate-money taken at the London Zoo during 1924 was £92,278, of which £23,059 was received as payment for admission to the new aquarium. The number of visitors during the year was 2,057,146. Few natives of India eat mor e than twice a day, and thousands only once. There are 16 bridges over the Tbaimeisi .between, the sea and Kingston. It ‘is now suggsted that nine new ones should he built to relieve the congestion of traffic. Nearly. 5500 motor omnibuses are plying for traffics in' London this year. The first lighthouses had fires of 'wood and coal kindled at the top of them. / Arranged in a straight line, the railways of the world would reach to the moon and back again. The origin of football is unknown, but the first mention of the game is in the reign' of Edward HI (1349). This, of course, refers to Soccer. Rugby., is only a hundred yeans old. Mr.. Worth, the great Paris dressmaker, was the .son of an English solicitor, and was horn at Bourne, in Lincolnshire. When his father died he went to London. It was in 1858 that he finally set up an establishment in Paris. Railway goods engines are capable of drawing in some cases as much as 740 tons'