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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11049, 29 August 1896, Page 6

■The great telescope of the Berlin Exhibition when completed will have two objectives-—one of 43iu aperture and about 20ft foous, the other of 2Sin aperture and 68ft focus—in one mounting. ■ It will have no dome, but will, be curiously Counted in an immense cylinder, supported only at the inner end. Betty Webster, a widow, has died atAysgarth, in her 107th year. She resided with a daughter, aged 77, and her descendants include many great-grandchildren. Sho was left a widow 70 years ago, with eight children. For half a century sho had been addicted to tobacco. She retained her faculties to the last. Sir John Lubbock says that the house fly, which produces the sound ~P, .vibrates its wings 20,100 times a minute or 3So a second; and the bee which makes the sound of A, as many as 26,000, or over 430 a second. On the contrary, a tired bee hums,on. E, and vibrates, its wings only 300 times a second. Marey has sueoeedea in confining, ihese numbers- • _ He fixed a fly so .that the tip of the wing just touched a cylinder covered with smoked paper moved by clockwork. Each stroke of the wing caused a perceptible - mark, and thcii were actually. 336 strokes in a second; agreeing, almost exactly.' -with the number inferred from the note produced,. - :