NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 4 March 1909, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

] 5 The imubator is an Egyptian in- ' vention. Printed musii-al notes were first useu in 1473. There are more than 3000 deaf mutes in London. Kerosene was first used for lighting purposes in 1826. A grain of strychnine will embitter 6000.000 grains of water. White lead is the result of exposing . sheets of lead to fumes of vinegar. ■ It is estimated that 3000 matrices j pic daily performed throughout 'he I world. St. Petersburg has the. highest death- ■ rate of any European capital — 51 per s 1000. ; France leads the world in wine proi duction, making 1,000,000,000 gallons : a vear. i * -•'■« «£ga The apple tress in bearing in Canada exceed 12,000,000, while 3,000,000 more jive growing up. In England and Wales out of every 100,000 ciils and boys, 6820 are railed Mary and 6590 William. The mines of tho world employ i 5,000,000 persons, and more than onethird of them are in the British Em- ■ pire. Whilo carving •' rr ' :i ~' u ' ri: °y (; ' 1 ' dinner a. woman m Vienna, named Hirrsihel. found ii) ii n go id pi"« r. ortii 10-j. "Charley's Aunt" has been uinniug I now fur 10 years wiihout a break. K was revived in London a few weeks ' ago. I | A medical jaurnal declare? that ths c-fi?t wind «lct'3 some people as much good as if they visited a bracing £ta i..-ia?t. ' i The Danube ib 1725 miles long, drains 315,300 square miles, and carries four-fifths of the commerce- of Eastern Europe. j An admiral of the fleet gets a salary of £2190 per annum ; seamen get from £23 to £32, while a naval cadet receives £18. Of a hundred million passengers by sea all the world over, 50 lose their lives. Of the same number by rail, 47 are killed. . In Persia there are no distilleries, breweries, or public-houses, and native wine is the only intoxicating beverage used. I i It is said that dried currants given to horses occasionally instead of oats will increase the animals' power of endurance. , Among birds the swan lives to be the oldest, in extremo caßes reaching 300 years. The falcon has been lmown to live over 162 years.