MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7272, 21 October 1891, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Coreaflu are the greatest eaten known. Their stomaohs are generally abnormal in Bize, and the one possessing the largest is generally cnndored the richest. Zululand will be the aoeno of Haggard'a new atory, " Nada the L'ly." His romance of Old Mex<n, the fruit of his recent journey to the land of the Montezumas, may follow. The Central Statistical Society of St. Peteraburg ana published d*ta estimating the population of Russia in December last at 110,000,000, the annual increase being 1,500 000. A very extensive domestio industry in llussia consists of tbe manufacture of wooden spoons, which are made to the amount of 30,000,000 annually. They are nearly all made of bircb. In some German schools orders hare been given recently that, owing to the danger of tho spreading of tubercolosis, tbe duBt must be hereafter be removed from floor and furniture with wet rage. A. man builds a bridge, and ho ia a great man. Another man puts up a cathedral, and he is a great man. But he who gives a man an idea which changes his life for good is the greatest of all. Mrs Loland Stanford lias eet aside L20.000 for the support of the Bve free kindergartens for poor ohildron in tbe tenement quarter of Sao Frnnoiaoo, which she baa founded during the last Gvo years.