NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 16 September 1909, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Brass melts at eOOdeg. Falit. Moscow lias .started a farthing daily newspaper. .;•"■,■ Mount" Etna is. the highest volcano in Europe... A. A'A A '■.- .'-. ■-.-.. Asia contiuns' more ihau lialf (he peo-- .. pie of the world. ' The German G'oveilimeiit spend* over ' £400,000,000 a year. -'.";'-'*■- Brazil grows . more coffee tbaii-- amy other -country '-in tie world. .:,>". Fifteen thowsand children, are torn annually- in British, workhouses, * "Ont of a total of isiSottth.Polevex- " peditioiis, nine" have been; ?ntSs/T,> _, : . On'e~ mile .five hundred and- fif ty yards*. u the length of the course at Henley. * — -Fif^y riunute?;' tvrentyTtwo, seconds -is the world's running-'teoorcL f 6r. IQ-iiniles. Prince . Edward'lsland'a annual catch of lobsters amounts to 20,000,000. . Tokay is niade' solely from -grapes, grown in tie vineyards-of the Emperor ■ of Austria. .;.*,...-*..-. v-. . The oldest trees in the world are * African baobabs. One is estimated ■ to be 57ffl) years old. I One sample in eight taken from London milk cans produced tuberculosis . in .guinea pigs. . ' I' Seven out of every eight loaves of j bread eaten in London are -made from foreign wheat. . Six aad a-half tons of pnre gold was . the cai-go of. a ship which recently set ont from Alaska.' •*•-:,..:.-. The' united .ages offa family of four brothers' : anA*. '-One sister at Sbeerness. I amount io 401 years. ' , i An Antarctic iceberg has been* seen ' that was 20 miles wide, 40 miles in length, and 400ft in height. ; The Glasgow' Corporation Tramways paid £50,000 to- .thei "common good" out of thß profits last year 1 , yy Texts recently* had a -tornado of such severity .tnat- a whole trairf was blown off a bridge into a river. :. Lucknow boasts the largest room in the world without- columns. It is constructed of a kind'of concrete. ■ ' The cost of maintaining and cleansing the public roads of London in the, year -.1907t8 was £1,469,291. .". ' . :•.' An American aeroplanist recently fell '3500 feet im. liis'' airship with no more serious injuries than a severe '{bruising. The water that pours over the Falls '-f Niagara is r wear jng. the rock away •at the rate of five yards in .four' years, ':■<* In the west ;of *• Westminster iAbbßy.is a gravestone to John Broughifon, once 'champion ''. prize-fighter of "England. "' i ' 7 „ '.. A After stabbing a man in Paris, Jean Francos apologised,. and explained that - he haft misteken''nun for- someone else. He was arrested. ; t 'A For carrying $xs. airship,- which ' pro"truded' 14fii* 6w. over! the. back of his •cart, -across London 'Bridge, a -jnan'was recerijtly fined 2s" 6d end 3s costs. '. The -tea -gardens -of Northern! India extend over 500,000 acres, arid theyiptodnce 190,G00,0001b of tea per annum, at a profit 'of abbut £aO.-pef aci-e.- : fft . . '** Chicago has decided to build > hall, capable of accommodating 46,000 spectators, - "which"' iwill be* more th«« i«W.. Jtimes; the size .($•- ton-don'? -Albeit. Hall. A yonng gii-1- jn"St.- Petersburgi nanjr ed Martinovski,. has lost .her sight.' by going out in the rain *\wth a blue veil, tho chemical dye from which caused Brood-poisoning. -•:'-»■'. American - Customs authorities estimate that, the, -Gftvernment 43 robed of. £4,000,000 annually ihrougb the organ-* feed smuggling *of; women 's apparel m^ar the port ol New York.' During the ..perforiiiances .at a *:Q1»8--gow tehatre, thi management "has' . arranged to undbrtak«rthe- care of babies of members of , thf. *Tldience at a charge of. 2^ and JSsLipe? tead. : TK© larges*j r ">volcand in the world is ~in the Sandwich lelopda. The.ctater is 20 miles iff diameter, and the 'stream of laVa 'flowing from-fit is -50 miles, 10uj.% and in places four miles wide.