Multum In Parvo

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 May 1926, Page 9

Multum In Parvo

Hundreds of people cheered a Reading man who was loveved over tpe River Ken net with a rope round Ins waist, and rescued a cat. under a factory bridge.

There are now more than 0000 war memorials altogether in Great Britain and on the battlefields. It is a mistake to suppose that the tip of the tongue is the most sensitive part of the body. Those engaged in polishing billiard balls, or any other substances that require a very high degree of smoothness, invariably use the cheek-hone as tlie.ir touchstone lot detecting any roughness. Such odours as those of verbena, rose, violet, carnation, and sweot briar are recognised' in butterflies by an English naturalist. Identification by the perfume seems to be possible. The large white garden butterfly, lor example, is known by the odour of lemon or balsam.

Ice harvested from a lake at Asli-ton-under-Lyne is stored in underground cellars, where it keeps for six or eight months. Penny cups of soup are now served at the ’ bars of public-houses at Carlisle, England, where texperi mental State ownership of the liquor traffic is still in force.

Fressinglaud, in Suffolk, lias acquired a fire engine for Is lid, the cost of a telegram and confirmatory letter. A firm in the country advertised that it had no further use for the engine and offered to give it to the first genuine applicant. Four blind shorthand-typists employed by tlie London County Council have prpved sufficiently satisfactory, for their engagements have been continued.

The first potatoes were cultivated m the \ndes. somewhere between ' San Diego, Chile, and Lima, Peru. Potatoes still grow wild in the mountain districts of South America. Electric contacts placed on the railway line, which operate a signal inside the cab of the .engine and warn the driver that the signal is against him are in use on French railways. They are known as crocodiles. Royal wills arc never made public in Britain. They arc kept in a special room of Somerset House, and not even the officials see them.

The tone of a piano is best when the instrument is not near a wall. Byron’s first gold watch has just been presented to his old school at Harorw.

Several plants, including the mimosa, are stated to show distinct signs of muscular contraction on being struck. This is said to indicate that plants have a sense of feeling.

A pair of ancient soldier’s boots, which were found in a cupboard of a very old building in Bagshot Park, Surrey, England, weighed about 101 b each, being made of the thickest hide, lined and padded, with very thick soles, and large rowel led. spurs attached by steel chains.

It is said that the patterns on the finger tips are not only unchangeable through life, but the chance of the finger-prints of two persons being alike is less than one in sixty-four billi