MULTUM IN PARVO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9

MULTUM IN PARVO.

‘‘Money is made to be counted, and woman- to be beaten,” is an old sa\~ 'iiiy; in Hungary, where wives must address their husbuitds with humble respect. War sop, in Nottinghamshire, has still in use a two-manual tire engine, which dates back to 1842. An oyster produces 50,000,000 eggs at a spawning. Oniy a few out ot the number survive, nearly all of the voting being gobbled by flies or failing to find a suitable anchorage. foxes were so numerous m Hast Kcm last year that they have been seen in broad daylight in the laues. Each copy of the London Telephone Directory contains 1200 pages, and weighs nearly four and a half pounds. The food value of dried and evaporated milk is quite different from that of fresh cows’ milk. The dried milk appeals to anproach fresh milk more nearly in quality than does the evaporated. At the beginning of the can manufacturing business in America the work was- done by hand, and 60 were considered a good clay’s work for one man. ANow a large factory can turn out ,/9,000,000 a week. An electrical safety device, which not onlv warns a train driver of an obstruction ahead, but automatically pulls the train up if the driver is incapacitated from any cause, has been invented m America. An accumulator small enough to be carried in the waistcoat pocket; and vet with sufficient power to drive a motor car for 10 days, has been invented by a Russian scientist. As yet it, is only in the experimental stage. Just a tiny particle of dust, hardly as larce as a pinhead, is blamed for a recent railroad wreck in Europe. The engineer of an express tram, it is said, was temporarily blinded when dirt lodged in’ his eye. and he failed to see stop signals. As a guide to inventors, the London County Council has suggested to the Institute of Patentees that two subjects needing attention are a cheap form of non-splintering glass and tram rails that will stand the weight, speed, and braking of modern rolling stock. A Danish schooner recently arrived at Aberdeen with a meteoric stone found in Greenland. It weighs about seven tons. The find was made in 1918, when it was lying on the edge of a rock about 400 ft high. It is the third largest meteoric stone known, and is worth £IO,OOO. The earliest military book in the JV ar Office library is dated 1573. It is entitled: “Ceritavne Waves for the Ordering of Souldiers in Battleray, and Setting of Battavles, after Divers Fashions, with Their Manner of Marching; and also Figures of Certayne Newe Plattes for Fortification of Town, etc.” For the past two years the night staff at Brandamore Station (United States) have been hearing European wireless nrogrammes by listening at one of the ordinarv railway telephones. Apart from the five-mile stretch of wire acting as an aerial, and an ordinary telephone receiver, there is nothing wireless about the equipment.

There are more cattle in England and Wales to-day than there were before the war. The sea round any desert island rarely visited hv man and far distant from any mainland always teems with fish. La Marguerite, once famous as a cross-Channel steamer, and later for her war service, is in the hands of the ship-breakers. The first troops she carried across the Channel, in March, 1915, were the 6th City of London Rifles, and this regiment now possesses, by way of souvenir, the ship’s hell of this historic steamer. Bicycles are so popular in France that there is one for seven persons of the population. Canada has no fewer than twentythree universities, six of them being State -controlled. Gibraltar has no public debt, no tramway, no railway, and no land capable of cultivation. During 1924 the London Fire Brigade attended 4819 tires. This was eighteen fewer than in 1923. Within the next 10 years the motor cars in Britain are expected by Sir Henry P. Maybnry, Director-General of Roads, to increase till there will he one car to every 20 of the population. During the Prince of Wales’ voyage on hoard the Repulse over 1,300,000 cigarettes were sold in the ship’s canteen. Constructing a-* the woodwork himself, including the doors and windows, a blind ex-soldier has just built his own house. Two aeroplanes now make a special ascent every day at Dux ford, Cambridgeshire, for the purpose of reporting the weather. Although onlv. thirteen months old Roland Wildash recently crossed the Atlantic from Canada to rejoin his parents in England. Script writing is condemned by the Lowton (Lancashire) Education Committee as being too slow for modern business methods. Every dish, from hors d’oeuvres to dessert, including the ices, served at a dinner in a London hotel recently, came front Canada. Even in the event of a prolonged summer drought lasting three months, London now has sufficient stores of water always in hand. From foundations to roof, a bungalow has been built by a betrothed couple in Essex. The bridegroom even made most of the furniture. One of the first causes of British overseas trade is said to have been the exchange of native wool for herrings caught in the Baltic Sea. Wireless sets are under a temporary ban of the Venezuelan Government. It is claimed that listening-in interfere? with the work of the nation. Carcases of mutton to the number 0, 3,350,000 can he stored in London nowadays. Forty years ago there was accommodation for only about 500. Of the enormous quantities of herrings caught off tin* English coasts, only five per cent, is consumed at home. The remainder is exported to various eoum tries.