MULTUM IN PARVO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 January 1926, Page 9

MULTUM IN PARVO.

One bell of a new set being installed in the parish church of Norbury, near Stockport, is the gift of -• Xonconformist churches in the parish. Over 40,000 summonses for motoring offences were issued in London last year, 11,000 more than in 1923. Because he “bobbed” the hair of a young girl without her parents’ consent, a hairdresser of Dijon, France, has been sued for damages by her father. . Borneo has many strange tribes, among them the Likits, who follow the trails of wild pigs and live upon the roots which these animals grub out of the ground. Land bigger in area than England and Ireland combined has now been given free to settlers by the Canadian Government. The commissariat of education has been considering a proposal to eliminate capital letters from the Kussian script. In favour of the proposition it is argued that the Oriental nations are not accustomed to employ capn.tletters. In Kashmir, where . -ie temperature is often as low as 20 degrees below zero, the poorer people keep themselves warm by carrying a bowl' full of hot embers under their one and only garment. Women's hats are now made in different sizes in the same way as male i head-gear. This is due to the preva- | lence of shingling. i The largest postage stamp ever issued was an American stanm for. newspapers and parcels, value :Ud. 1 was -Jin by L’in. All Shakespeare's plays win shortlv lie published, translated into Japanese. If the poison fangs of a snake are : a ken out a new pair of fangs will grow. More than 30,000 marriages take place every year in the County of Lon. don. Landowners in Hungary are prohibited by old laws from selling a single acre of their estates. The houses, offices, and public buildings of London are now estimated to be worth more than £62.d20,0!.'<). If one second of time could be saved at each stop of the London County Council traincars it would mean an economy of no less than £2OOO a year. The average length of life for the people of New York State is estimated to have risen to 304 years, as compared with 241 years in 1840. Among the smart women of Paris it is becoming a fad to have the skin of a pet dog that dies made into boots lor the disconsolate owner to wear. A French inventor, M. Dessau, is reported to have produced waterproof matches. Rubber is added to the fulminating material and then vulcanised. Every' match tested after immersion in water is said to have ignited without difficulty. The staff at Eton College includes 8o .assistant-masters. , •

A plant shown at,- the Horticultun Show in London recently could b lighted like a candle. A 17-year-old youth has lately die m England from the effects of scratch on the eyelid from a blackberr thorn. At the inquest the coronc urged the importance of giving ii stant attention to all scratches. The world’s smallest State has th world’s tallest ruler. Dr. Heinrie Sahm, president of the free city < Dandig. is six feet eight inches i height. ■ Because a passenger insisted o playing a guitar on a Marseilles tran car the conductor shot him dead. A New York millionaire has advei tised in the papers for public advic as to bow he should dispose of hi millions. The town of Simla, iu India, is buil oil the side of a stoop hill, and the of one house is often level with th foundation of the house on tho. nex tier. Fresh air. cooied in summer an warmed in winter, is pumped throng! the latest vessel to run across the Chan uol. This is a shipping novelty: Across ti stamp issued by the SoutL end Free Church Council in connectioi with a Sunday observance eampuigi are the words'. “Guard our Sunday.’ In the town of Chili most shop are open till midnight, and during th Lot afternoons, when everybody-take a siesta, they are locked up. France spends nearly three-quarter and Britain over half of the mni-cna expenditure on paying tor past war and preparing for new ones. .) i This year South Africa will prob ably export 21. v) million oranges, and i is- expected that in five years she wil c exporting thousands of millions. Among the chemical wonders of illworld is the famous Iron Fillar o Delhi, which was erected about £ A.I) 3.'a). 'Flic pillar, which weighs about - tons and is over 23ft. high, present one of the conundrums of metallurgical science. As there were no steal! hammers or suitable forging presse at the time of its erection, it is no known bow such a wonderful obje-c c-mild bare been produced. The chief liquorice-producing area ii China is the Ordos Territory, the ex ports of which during 15)23 -totalle< over 10.000,(KlOib. valued at £174.00<) It is estimated that this district find work for at least 8015 - persons in liq no rice digging. If powerful electric lights strunj over a barren lawn can force gras Into rapid growth, why should no similar treatment make hair grow oi a bald head? Dr. Andreas Christia; claims that bald heads may be covered and beards coaxed on clean-shave faces by the use of strong artificia light. p Bowler hats have become very popt lar in Turkey, now that tlie old ffa tional headgear of that country, th fez, is being abandoned. The ordinary person’s lungs 76,000,000 air cells.