One Thing and Another.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 907, 19 July 1889, Page 6

One Thing and Another.

Letters are postmarked in Boston by machinery. There aie siifcy women dentists in thO United Sfcatbs; . , The dotidati region has a population 6f 1 over 60,000,000. ... 1 Nearly 37,000,000 babies are born in this ! world every year. 'f One hundred fatal accidents have taken 1 place already at the Eiffel tower in Paris. America publishes more newpapers than all the rest of the world combined. In a list of the twelve great women of the world there appears but one name of an American, that of Margaret Fuller. A piece of coal, weighing five and one-half tons, has beeu cut at Abercarn Colliery, Cornwall, England, to be sent to the Paris Exposition. The French factory at Mantoisis the only one in the world where glass large and perfect enough for the lenses of a big telescope can be successfully cast. Forepaugh and Barniun have divided the territory of the United States into two parts, and agreed nob to exhibit their shows in the same territory for two years. This is the first Circus Trust. . With Ragan’s brake for ships at Cherbourg the steamer Baffle, going at fourteen knots, was stopped recently in a distance of fiftylive feet without reversing the engines. A considerate suicide in New Hampshire, so that there would be no time wasted grappling for his body, before jumping into the watsr tied one end of the rope round his waist and the other to the trunk of a tree on the bank. A soldier belonging to a detachment of the Austrian, Army in Transylvania was recently killed by a bullet from a Manlicher rifle discharged during a target practice at a distance of more than two and a half mile 3. The highest office building in the world is to he erected at 5,7, 9 and 11 Broadway, New York. It will be sixteen stories high on Broadway and seventeen on Greenwich street. It will contain 950 offices and will cost $2,225,000. A witness from Roag before the Crofters’ Commission, who was deeply in arrears, on being aßked to explain how he had fallen behind with his payments, said he and his ancestors had been paying rent in the same place for 600 years, and they had paid quite enough. The base of Eiffel tower in Paris occupies three and a half acres of ground. On the first platform, 350 steps high, is a wide gallery, alfordiug standing room lor SUUO persons, ami lour large restaurants. By ru-oaua ot the elevators 20,000 persons a.day can ascend, ft cost §>1,250,000.

A DIMINUTIVE HORSE The smallest horse in the world » ade its, appearance at Baciue lately. It is the pro*; perty of B. K. Bull, is a Shetland pony and weighs 42 pounds. It is 2 feet 5 inches high; and 2 feet ■’> i ches long, and resembles a dog; more thaw a horse.:—Milwaukee Sentinel. 1