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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3256, 13 October 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

The British museum contains 2,000,000 volumes.

It seems strange that one of the finest free libraries in the world should be built at Southbrook, the great resort of pleasureseekers. This splendid building contains 27,000 volumes.

Many publishers are blaming the bicycle for a very noticeable failing off in the sale of their books. They claim that people ride as long as i t is daylight; an I at night are too tired to read.

A great Americrn scientist is now busily engaged in perfecting an instrument which carries words on the rays of light. ' He has already succeeded in telephoning by this means for one mile.

The largest telegraph-office in the world is in the General Post Office, London. There are over 3000 operators, 1000 of whom are women. The electric batteries in connection with the telephone and telegraph are supplied by 30,000 cells.

Lord Charles Beresford has been awarded no fewer than three medals for saving life from drowning. Dr School, an eminent German soienlist, says that there are not less than 20,000 tons of mineral matter per day added to the store which the ocean already holds in solution.

The latest suggestion for cyclists in the way of footwear is sandals. They would certainly be easy, and better than any other foot covering from a hygienic standpoint. Unfortunately for the husbands, the more we teach her the less able does the daughter of England appear to be to cook a mutton chop or sew on a button. She prefers bicycling.