MULTUM IN PARVO.

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

MULTUM IN PARVO.

The Pori of London, tho largest enclosed water area in the world, is now connected up by an automatic exchange, enabling a telephone call to he made from any one olliee to any other in four seconds. Germany’s population is now practically the same as that of 1908, in spite of the fact that in area she is now much smaller than she was then. The amount of life found to exist in a quartet’ of a square mile of tropica .jungle at Gartabo, British Guiana, is almost incredible. In one hour Mr. William Beebe, a naturalist, .jotted dowp 2-Mi observations on odd living, animals. In that small area. Mr. Beebe saw 73 different kinds...oE.ma.m-. iifa Is. in the whole of New York State —IS.OOO times larger—-there aim only 81! He found also that the various birds were more numerous than iu the British Isles —there being -Mil distinct species. By digging up a square yard of soil he came across a thousand different' forms of insect life. On the suggestion of the Socialist members the " Festinioug Council in Merionethshire are to destroy four German guns presented to the town as a war trophy. Forged Treasury notes have been cir dilating in such numbers lately that iu one restaurant in London nearly 100 were passed to the cashier in one "week. They are. believed to come from tho Continent. The Bay of Fundy. in Nova Scotia, has a tide of 03ft, the highest in the world. Less than Mb of radium has been, found in the world since its discovery in 1898. One jet of gas will consume as much air as four adults. Wholemeal bread is seriously rivalling the popularity of the white variety in England. Some users claim the wholemeal loaf goes farther, a great point in the case of large families. From only 2500 a quarter of a century ago, the population of Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, one of Canada’s praiiie provinces, has become (in,.’>7B. Dublin’s park area is 1758 acres, an area sufficient to allow each 175, inhabitants an acre of breathing space. Edinburgh lias 407 acres of park. The Himalayas have been seen -2-1 miles away. In all their wars the British have won the splendid average of 82 per cent, of the battles. Street-liawkers in New York number 7Sti(), and do business (estimated at JUT, OOO,OOO annually. When the tide recedes along the coasts ot various parts of Japan the beaches are dotted with people gathering seaweed and carrying it to drying racks of bamboo. Alter drying it is baled and shipped. The seaweed visua—iv is boiled and eaten with rice. The timber of an oak is.net ree.lL much good until the tree is about a century old. To guard deep-sea cables from tho, attack of the teredo, a submarine insect, every inch has to be wrapped in brass tape. The population of the Russian. Union of Soviet Repub'ies is given as 13-1,000,-000. The population of the United States on January 1, 1925, was officially reckoned as. 114,311,000, Since last March the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has received 13,225 pairs of hawks’’ feet, for which it has paid over' £3OO. It was reported that there were still p'ciitv of hawks in £he district. The eggs of the West African ostrich average nearly 31 lb in weight. The right hand, which is more sensitive to the touch than the left, is less sensitive than the latter to the effect of heat*or cold. Parents who wish their son s to go to Eton must be prepared to enter the boys’ names practically at birth, so long is tbe waiting list at this famous school. “Speed Limit Through Nazareth 10 Miles per hour.” So reads a sign on Mary’s Well at Nazareth. Of 28,000 Christian missionaries working in foreign fields, 19,000 are from the United States, while American annual contributions to .the work amount to 40.000,000 dollars out oi a total of 45,000,000 dollars. One-sixth of Canada’s production •of electrical energy is exported to the United States,

4f ter elaborate tests An apiaries, experts report that the Honey bee is not busv; she merely looks busy. She spends more time loafing at home in the hive than she does outside hunt; ino* for nectar. She only makes 31 Go trips during her lifetime, and it takes 5(57 bees a lifetime to produce a pound of nectar. A big New York hospital has installed an aeroplane ambulance service. The hospital roof has been turned into a landing stage. A doctor .states that tight, un ventilated. hats are one of the chief causes of baldness. The mariner’s compass is said to haye been in use, in_.2liflfLJ3.il., by .tbit, Chinese. Sniilliiielil. London's famous meet: market, existed over a thousand years ago. . . , Chinese streets are supposed to be the narrowest in the world, some of them being only *Sft wide. A man lift high standing .on. level ground, can only: see objects on the name level ?>:} miles distant. When the Universal Esperanto Congress met tit Geneva lately- a service in Esperanto was hold in the cathedral, and a woman preached a sermon in Esperanto from Calvin’s pulpit. The University Press at Oxford lias appliances for printing in 150 diffeient languages. The Grenadier Guards got their name from their original weapon—the hand grenade. , "Women' participated in French elections. for the first time on May 4.