MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8731, 19 November 1896, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

o Tho making of cod-liver oil is an important industry ab Christlanta. The quantity exported last year was 70,000 barrels. The population of the world averages 109 women to every 100 men. Eight, ninths of the sudden deaths are those of males. Over 40,000 persons land ab Joppo every year m order to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and other spots celebrated m sacred history. In the United K'ngdom there are now nearly 140,000 persons employed m coalgetting thin the number which sufficed m 1889, lb is reported from France" that the fresh juice of the poppy plant applied to recent beo stings give immediate relief, and prevents inflammation. The Czar of Russia is said fco have among his household an nnderstudy singularly like him m appearance, who shows himself at the window of the railway carriagos and the like when his Majoaiy does not wish to be disturbed. An eminent[astronomer isof opinion thab the red glow of the planet Mara ia caused by crimson vegetation. He thinks thab the grass and foliage there aro red, not green as they are on the earth. Oil has long been used to calm stormy seas; but it has been recently discovered that soap dissolved m water— soapsuds, In fact— has the eama effec*, and is not a quarter so expensive. A father complaiued at a London oonrt that his son hed been sent home from a board-school ' becaosa his clothes were not good eneugh.' The magistrate told the man to take the boy to the school again, as the Board was bound to educate the poor, clo'hea or no clothes. A statistician advocates the use o aluminium coins m place of the copper coins now m use. •Ie wears well,' he says, « is non-corrosive, and is wonderfully light.' Over 3000 tons of epper coins are m use m the United Kingdom. This weight would be reduced to 2000 tons if a'uminium were substitu'ed. " The climate of the Scitty Islands ia the mosb equable m the Uni ed Kingdom. It ranges on an average from 4QJeg. to 60deg.- On the coldest day it te warm", and on the hottest it te cool. There are only three seasons m Scil'y, of four months each — spring, summer, and autumn. When the autumn ends spring commerces. In the vicinity of Boquet, Westmoreland, Co., Pa., almost anyone can tell you how to cure a lame back or stiffneck. They dampen a piece of flannel with Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and bind ib on the affected parts and m one or two days the trouble has disappeared. This same treatment will very promptly cure a pain m the side or chest. Air X M. Fry, a prominent merchant of Boquet, speaks very highly of Pain Balm, and his recommendations have had "much to do with making it popular there. For sale by E, G. JLank, Chemisb,