One Thing and Another.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 6

One Thing and Another.

Switzerland has built 1000 inns since tourists began to visit her. The record shows that polygamy in Utah is rapidiy decreasing. In Washington there i 3 one liquor saloon to everv 175 of the population. America has 200,000 telephones, more than trte rest of the world combined. Professor Newton estimates that4oo,ooo,ooo meteors fall to the earth annually. In France it takes one man a year to weave a yard of Gobelin tapestry. They got from 200dols to 400dols a year. The French soldiers’ pay is Z 7 centimes a day, or a little over 24d. A home for divorced wives has been es tablished by the Government iu Salt Lake City at a cost of 70,000d015. The demand for fancy articles in humanskin leather is greater than the product, and an imitation is in the market. In Cashmere 30,000 shawls are made yearly. It takes three men a year to weave a pair. It takes ten goats to furnish the material for one and a half yards square. The Shah himself is not a Persian, but a Turk, the hereditary chief of a Turcoman tribe ; the language ,of his private aud domestic life is not Persian, but Turkish. Before 1860 only about half-a-dozen differ ent kinds of microbes had been discovered. There are now more than 200 varieties with which science is more or less familiar, ( A Dresden manufacturer has produced thread from the common nettle so Hue that sixty milas of it weigh only two and ono-half pounds. There was assembled at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen the other day One Emperor, one Empress, one Empress Dowager, three Kings, one Queen, four heirs apparent and thirty-five Imperial and Royal Princes and Princesses. After destroying a very large nu mber of letters Mr Gladstone has selected 60,0,00 for preservation and has built for them a fireproof room. When his biographer comes to oveihaul them he will find bi 3 work half done in advance. Sunday labour in France is by no means so general as a few- years ago. American visitors to Paiis cannot fail to notice bow many more shops are shut oti Sunday aftei* the early morning, and now the first step has been taken toward Sunday rest on the railways. In experiments made in France, where ri’ates of celluloid were used for sheathui

ships’ botfcorris instead of copper, it wa3 found that the plates Were iritabt arid (red from marine growth; which wds abuctdofiS on parts not protected by the celltffoid; It is generally supposed that oak is miiofi stronger than fir, but a series of teqts made' recently at the car shops of the Northern! Pacific Railroad in Tacoma, W, T., sho'wel that the reverse is actually the case. THe tests were made by actual breaking strain: , Editor Stone of the New York Journal of Commerce has not taken a day’s rest from routine work for thirty years. He has not missed a day at his desk since the death of his wife. He has not been sick once since he began editorial work. He recently gave his recipe for retaining perfect health in journalistic labour's. It ran thus: ‘Plenty of exerche, plenty of sleep and plenty Jof religion.’