One Thing and Another.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 906, 12 July 1889, Page 6

One Thing and Another.

New York has five successful women dentists. Five towns in Kansas have elected woman for Mayors. . - Tokio, Japan, has used the electric light for three years. Chimneys became general in domestic architecture in 1310. Turkish women eat rose leaves with butter to secure plumpness. In one small district of Japan 1178 horses were slaughtered last year for use as food. Two million five hundred thousand emigrants have left Germany since 1871, of which 2,000,000 went to America English army authorities are considering a project for enlisting young boys and letting them grow up into soldiers. Statistics make it appear that therei are 5530 lawyers in New York city whose aggregated fees and incomes amount to something over $3,000,000 a year. The highest position in the gift of the President is that of Postmaster at Mineral Point, Col. It 4 is 12,000 feet above the sea level. The London Mechanics’ Magazine. says: The undivided honours of having built the first practical screw steamer, the first screw warship, the first cupola (turret) vessel, belong to John Ericsson. The income of Herr Krupp, the great gunmaker of Essen, last year was nearly $1,500,000. This sum is larger than the income of the richest of the Rothschilds. It is figured out that the railroads of the world are worth nearly $300,000,000,000, or nearly one-tenth of the entire wealth of the civilized nations, or more than a quarter of their invested capital, and that all the ready money in the world would buy only about one.third of them. Russian statesmen, from Count Tolstoi down, are aiding ib. the organisation of societies for the prevention and suppression of inebriety. Total abstinence, except from light cider and kvass, an acid driuk with little alcohol, is the rule they seek to establish for too hard drinkers. A syndicate of Paris capitalists seems anxious to take the Panama Canal off the old company’s hands, but it is not willing to pay anything for the work which has been done. Under any arrangement which may hereafter be made to continue the work, but little money will be paid for ‘ improvement3.’ . , . A grenadier of the regiment of Champagne was retreating from the ranks mortally wounded. * Where is that grenadier going V cried the officer as he passed, ‘To die,’ said the soldier, turning round, and expiring as he spoke.