MULTUM IN PARVO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 September 1925, Page 11

MULTUM IN PARVO.

Baldness is stated to be increasing among civilised, people who live in cities. Wireless receiving .licenses to the number of about 1,200,000 are at present in force in Britain. Pygmy mice, which came from Africa, are so small that a family oi them could be comfortably housed in an ordinary matchbox. Charles Lamb’s little cottage,at Edmonton, England, where he lived for several years, and subsequently died, was recently sold by auction for £BOO. ' ; Twenty-one sentences, amounting in all to about .300 'years, have ueen passed by a. Spanish' court of Jaw on a municipal officer accused of raise book-keeping.

Anybody who is British born can buy the Freedom of the City of London. A proposer and seconder and a payment of certain fees are all that is requiied. It costs less than £5.

Canada is the third gold-producing country of the world, the Transvaal being the first, and the United States second. Street accidents due to vehicles caused death or injury to 88,215 people in Great Britain last year. Of these 3631 were fatal.. ■ When an old couple celebrated their diamond wedding •at Wahsend, England,- not long ago, the old lady wore the dress in which she was married in 1865. . • •• .In the seventeenth century Billingsgate market was leased for , £95 a year in rents. Last year the traders in the market paid £36,500 in .rents. The giraffe is the only animal which is unable to swim. This is on account of its long -neck. Every other animal can, if put to it, manage to keep afloat. The strangest menagerie in the world is on an Ohio (U.S.A.) farm. Through all the gardens, orchards, and fields of this curious place one meets wild beasts of many kinds, ingeniously fashioned out of. roots, trunks, and -branches of trees. It is a veritable Noah’s Ark grown up. Britain spent £2 12s per head of the population on beer last year;'her milk hill was equal to £T per head. The United States now uses 25,000,603 eggs a clay. A full-grown oyster, will produce about 9,000,000 eggs. Sir Hiram Maxim, without whose guns no army of to-day could hope for success, started life with less than the proverbial half-crown in his pocket*. When he went out into the world lie earned exactly one shilling, and he earned his first week’s wage as a decorative painter.

British tomatoes ale. ciaimedf .to-i.be the iinest in the world, owing To the successful attacks on pests and diseases.

After 26 years’ sen ice,, during which time he issued 110,003; summonses, a London police se.geaiit- has ‘ just retired- His busiest year, was 1921, when he was responsible top the serving of 19.060 summonses. A saving of coal w ithout loss of heat may be easily effected'in those'neighbourhoods where chalk is plentiful, by filling up the. back of tlie large grate with lumps of chalk. Tne chalk will become red hot and give out. ;i good heat. * ..... During the year ended April 30, 1925, the value of settlers' euec-is entering Canada from tne Cnited..States. - ] amounted to *0,£27,1X4} dollars, an .inccease of about 101,000 dollars ■as computed with the corresponding period of the previous year. Unable to speak a word of each other’s language, a Hungarian ’ man married a .Rumanian bride. .' They each speak a litt e English, tindyeke this out by making signs. ' / A carrier pigeon, recently released at Dover, aiignted on the steamer. Leviathan 2000 mi.es from. land. Jamaican hreflies emit such, a ; bril-. liant clew that yon ,can easily- read at night if you place half a dozen of them in an invented tumbler on the table beside y'ou. TV' In order to perform an operation-on an Italian princess, a famous American surgeon recently travelled . specially irorn New York to Home, a distance of 4503 miles. . ’ Bees are said to see an t enormous distance. When absent from their hive they go up in the air till they see their home, and then fly towards it in' a straight line. Nearly every .Chinaman can read; but about 90- per cent-, of the women aie entirely uneducated. ' >rU Sixty thousand ounces of platinum we:e used in the world last year. Plants growing near the sea have thicker leaves than those growing inland. Apparently the sea salt is .The cause of this phenomenon, as plants cultivated in artificially salted soil yield thicker leaves, London Is birth-rate :in 1924 , was 18.6 per thousand, as compared with 20.1 in 1923 and 20.9 in 1922. . 3 Wild horses, which roam the ranches of -Western America in such whin hers that they are nuisances, are now being hunted down and used for .fattening hogs. 1

Aliens to the number of 9-35 received certificates of ‘ naturalisation during 1924 in Great Britain. Russia headed 'the list with 351 men and 14 women.