MULTUM IN PARVO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 October 1925, Page 11

MULTUM IN PARVO.

Mosquitos 'will fly i° r miles, but never very fur over water It is brio female mosquito only that bites; she alone is responsible for all the evil reputation which lias attached to the sDecies The male has not the power, even if he had the will. There are about 7,000,C00 cats in Britain.

The United States produced 81,000,000,COO cigarettes last year. Since the adootion of the United States Constitution 138 years ago, the Congress has enacted 50,(X)0 laws. Telephone subscribers in Canada now total over 1,037,550 more than on© in nine of the population. \ single female salmon of 301 b weight deposits nearly 30,000 eggs, of which about 4 per cent, hatch. Fashions in clothes set by the Prince of Wales during his last visit to the United States are still popular, including grey suits and grey or,bl-ue ties. A pigeon picked up by a ship in the Bay ‘of Biscay and liberated off Dover alighted .six clays later o n board the Leviathan, when she was about 2000 miles on her way to New York. To perfect her map system Canada is photographing 40,000 square miles of territory every year from the air. Members of the Swedish Authoi s Union are asking for compensation from the'radio service for the broadcasting of their works. The head has 77 muscles—eight for the eyes and eyelids, one for the nose, eight* for the lips, eight for the jaw, 11°for the tongue. 11 for the larynx, 11 for the ear, 17 for motions of the head and neck, one to move the hairy scalp, and oneyfor the eyebrows. Four beagle 'puppies, deserted by their mother, have been mothered by a hen in Massachusetts.

While tying up corn in a field 22 years ago Mrs. Kinsey, of Mormhill, near Buxton, England, lost her wed-ding-ring. It was found by a faim labourer who was thinning out turnips a few weeks ago. A quarter of a> million, natives work in the gold and diamond mines of Rhodesia for 60s a month. Few people in India know how old they are, having little interest in their own age or that of others.

One pair of tomtits in the nesting season will catch and deliver to the brood between, 4000 and 5000 insects, chiefly grubs and caterpillars; but ants come in for a good deal of persecution, and even bees and wasps are accepted in hard times.

Although Waterloo and Charing Cross Stations, London, are only a few hundred yards apart, a heavy locomotive liad to travel .100 miles, by way of Guilford, Redliill, and Tunbridge Wells, to get from one terminus to the other. In a buried city' in Southern Nevada, U.S.A., which is reputed to be 10,000 years old, there are stated to be indications that women ranked higher than men in authority. During the recent four weeks' heat wave 52,500,000 lemons were consumed, in Great Britain. Eighty per cent, of the 130,000,000 inhabitants of Soviet Russia are peasants. A baby bov was born 8800 feet up in the air in an airplane on route from Budapest to Naples. Stamps estimated as worth £IO,OOO were recently found in an attic of a Mayfair mansion. When originally purchased they cost about £2O in all. Over 39,570 London County Council school children were taught to swim last season. Hobson’s choice is so called in allusion to the practice of Thomas Hobson (1831), of Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take the horse which stood nearest to the door. Archaeologists have discovered at Jerusalem what is believed to be part of Agrippa's Wall, called the Third Wall. The number of fishermen catching fish in England and Wales is 40,000, and they ply their -trade from the Barents Sea* right d.own to the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

Paper was invented in China about the commencement of the second century of the Christian era, being made from the hark of trees, from bamboo, old rags, silk, hemp, or cotton, reduced to pulp. There are 19,360 officers and men in the Metropolitan Police Force (London), who cost something like. £35,120 a year in medical, dental, and funeral expenses.