INTERESTING GLEANINGS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 125, 10 June 1891, Page 4

INTERESTING GLEANINGS.

A. gallon of water weighs lolbs.' -?qgk& The washing of the Queen's housfen^P jbbsts p£r annum: -ii A match-making machine cuts and shajstfs . , i0.000.q00 m ten §gurs. „ ■ '"' Nearly £^0& wwih of articles ire pawned m London weftxiy. The harvest of 18559 is said, tq have been the worst ever known m England. " .'. In the smaller towns of §erinapy only the sweeps wear the chimriey-jbot hat. : r£ ; : V \. -According to the insanity returns, 16 .- cases m. i ; ooo are caused fay love aHairs. .> s : ■ The Suez Canal shortens the distance., bj|- ■■'■ .tween London and Bombay by .4^65 insßs. •The annual -death rate of children frolb -: and neglect m England is ovdr 10,000, ':. .-•'■■'■ ; — Between 1869 and 1888 only isu persons were reported* m London as having Sijea "from hydrophobia. . Si ' v "Vl&k^Balfour, M.P., receives a '■•year as. Chief Secretary to the Lord 1 - MSnL tenant of Ireland. * ' ; Among every 1,000 bachelors there ___38_criminajs ; among married men tne fatfo is only 13 per 1,000. ; ..-,..' •There have beenfour financial panics m Great Britain during this century. In 1814, " 18257184^, and 1866. ;■ • , . Great.. Britain used the first postage ' . stamp m 1840. Brazil followed m 1845, and ■^itHeTUnited States m- 1847. 7 i 3?he greatest number of miles walked m • — six- days was 623, by Littlewbod, the athlete, at NeW York, m 1888. —7- TUf Mayor of Liverpool receives £2,706 a year. 'The Mayors of Manchester to tne present time have received nothing. Death' by is one of the modes of capital punishment. It prevailed widely over the earth m primitive ,. ...timgs....:. -> --. - - ; ; ' .iTHE.fasfestrtrains on 'the continent are - said -to-be -ihe expfessesof the" Northern j Railway Company of Prance. Their speed , r is"36.miles an hour. ' "• /. "Queen Marguerite of Italy.: is fond of smoking,' and is. said. to have .declared that. " her cigarette is more essential to her comfort. !: than anything else m life. . ,-..-- . ' "'The title of " Majesty" was not applied to the sovereign until the. time of James I. ; ■before then Kings of England were called ' '"Your. Highness." ' •.. . ■„ , . * London pays every year .for gas, which costs- only £2,900,000 to produce. The gas companies make a profit, of £1, 500,000 upon a total capital outlay of ' less than £14,000,000. ..-' : ";V :' ' • 1 ' Betti'ngon the Weather.— Betting on ; the rainfall has become so prevalent a form of gambling m India that the Legislature has dealt ;with it m a bill that became law _.at the. close of last year. ■ .The revenues of the Duchy, of Cornwall,, which the Prince- of Wales receives, are. nearly £70,000 a year. The.Queen reeeivCft : the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster, which are over £40,000 yearly. ' ; ■ " T.he- largest Christian place of worship m .the world- is Use Church of St. Peter's m '.Rome, 'which, hasicapacityiforacongrega- ' tibri of ,54,006 pebons.Sti' Paul's Cathedral,' London, will hold a congregation of 26,000. - '■.'■/ " '. : ;.. : ' : - : V '" : - A Golden-maned Horse— ln Boston - there is a long golden-maned horse, stated to; be the only one m the world. He. is seven years old, weighs 1,435 pounds, and is sixteen hands high ; with a length" of fail Of i2r feet 3 inches, length of mane, gfeetg": inches, and length of foretop, 8 feet g inches.. 1 ; High Collars Beneficial to Health . . .rr.K lady doctor, wfeo has been practising inedidae for twenty-five years, refers to'the hujh Midici coljfur as the "only. hygienic factor m the Oclfcfif of the : iashionable woman." ".I stated npfprthe high collar," she said at a recent Gjedical meeting. "I -consider it onfe of the best" protections 1 : against throat trottbk).- In all the' years of iiiy practice I havfcfiiayer had so few casesof throat troabfe, totisiiitis/and colds among r- the women as I have this fall and winter, . and J attribute it aU to the styleof wearing • . high collars m the street, m -churches atid ' -, theatres, and also at home, where a dfaaght "fe jttst as likely to prodoce coM as anyiymre = figj»." •- . . ' .- :. :•; -_ ■' ■■.•;:■ - ■'■' ■ ; Bismarck's Diet.— : Here are Prince Bis..matck's daily merata^: as. detailed by his itecoat visitor, Herr Brewer:— -^LunclieoiV: Cdji! brawn; large meat puddings, roasted brown, with mashed potatoes ; boiled duck, • lyith crisped cabbage ; Frankfort sausages ; ii big fresh cheese. Beer, claret, strongly aromatic, white wine. I)inner : Soup ; oysters; cod; smoked beef, with 'mashed peas and sauerkraut ; chicken ;•• plum pudding : dessert (varied). 'Champagne, hock, Bnrgundy,. Johannisburger Schloss: We . miss, by the way, any allusion to the drink which is so generally associated with the ex-Chancellor that.. lt is known m some convivial circles as " Bismarck"— a mixture, • to wit, of beer and champagne. — ' Occupation and Physical Peculiarities. — A carpenter's right shoulder is almost ' invariably higher than his left, m consequence of having to use his Tight arm. all the tune m planing and-hammering ; with every shaving his shoulder runs with a jerk, and it finally comes natural to him to hold himself- m that way. The right arm of a blacksmith, for the same jreason, is almost fhypertrophifid, while the left arm, from disuse, is almost atrophied. A shoemaker is almost always round-shouldered from continually bending over the last between "his knees as he sews and hammers. All good, orators have most abnormally wide mouths. This is the direct consequence of their habit of using sonorous words and * speaking with deliberation and correct pronunciation. If one practices this before the glass one can see that the muscles m the cheeks are stretched more than ordinarily, aad the mouth is extended a great deal more than m everyday conversation. Then, too, nature has something to do with it. A large month, like a prominent nose, is a sign of power. " The Ploughman Homev/ard Plods his Weary . Way."— This line, from Gray, can be expressed m varipus ways without destroying the rhyme or altering the sense. Itis doubtful whether another line of English can be found, the words of which admit of so many transpositions, still retaining original meaning the while : — , 1. The weary ploughman plods his home- ' -ward way. j a. The weary plonghman homeward plods , iiis way. ■•■'.■ ' 3. The ploughman, weary, plods his homeward way. , 4. The ploughman, weary, homeward plods j Ms way. 5. Weary the ploughman plods his homeward way. 6. Weary the ploughman homeward plods '■■ ■- his way. ; 7. Homeward the ploughman plods hir ! weary way. 8. HomewtiTd the ploughman, weary plod* : his way. 9. Homeward the weary ploughman plods his way. 30. The homeward ploughmaa weary plods "his way. 11. The homeward ploughman plods his weary way. -