MISCELLANEOUS.
The Crat'i crown is worth LI 200,000. London has eightjfour milei of wooden paremeut. Thoro ie a surplus in the Eoglieh revenue of Ll.067.000. Tbo Cz*r of ItuBaia has the moot costly crown in Europe, Tbe corporation of Glasgow, Scotland, is about to erect a generating Btation large enough to supply 40,000 incandescent electric lamps. Tbe total expenditure for the work will be between L69,000 and L70,000. At tbo examination of J»cqu«i Inaudi, tbe extraordinary calculator, by the Academy of Science! In Paris, ho wai attked to nubBtract a line of nineteen 6guren from another line of a iimilar Dumber, and did so at onoo without; a fault. He was then requested to ttate tbe number of which the cube and thn equsre, added to* gethor, would be 3600. In two leoouds be replied 15. Ai ked what day of the week wai the 11 h Marob, 1822, Inaudi made anisver : 'It wm Mooday; and a peram born on that day would have lived such and such a number of hours, minutes, and second*.' The figures were found to be perfectly correct, »od ever/ mutbematioiKn f reo<nt wa^ astounded.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7390, 15 June 1892, Page 1
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190MISCELLANEOUS. North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7390, 15 June 1892, Page 1
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