MULTUM IN PARVO

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 11

MULTUM IN PARVO

' Gorman scientists predict that the winters wi! gradually become warmer and the summers cooler. Photographs have been taken by means of a solid steel ball in place of an ordinary lens. The light goes round, instead of through, this novel metal lens.

It is estimated that a London taximan is idle for seven of his ten working hours. Loudon street names are being altered at the rate of 30 a year, and the London County Council already lias a record of 2500 changes.

According to a new book, only nine out of every 100 Romans born in Egypt under the Caesars lived to (iS, but of 'every 100 English children alive at 10 30 can expect to live to that age. The wife of the stalionmaster at the Newcastle (England) Central Station, in declaring open a first-aid room at the station, said that if railway men were injured they would be able- to come into a place where they could "groan in comfort.” Sometimes they had to keep a stiff upper lip when a groan would do them a lot of good. For more than 200 years a lamp has been burning continually at the foot of the statue of Our Lady of Great Power, in the Ursulines Convent at Quebec. The lamp was lit, and provision made for its maintenance in perpetuity, by Mile de Repcntigny, in 1(598, as a thankoffering for having been relieved of temptation to return.to the world. Silkworms have been successfully vaccinated against bacterial disease.