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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4970, 11 May 1891, Page 4

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An object moving 1 mile per hour moves li feet per second ; a man walking 4 miles per hour moves <5 feet per second; an express running 6 mites per hour travels 88 feet per second ; a cannon ball travels 1625 feet per second; a vessel travelling at 17 knots per hour moves 28 feet per second. The design for joining the continents of Europe and Asia by means of a bridge across the Bosphorus, is now under the consideration of the Turkish Government, the specifitations including a total length of about (35(JOft. aud a height above sea of about 130 ft.

From the Newspaper Press Directory it appears that there are now 1763 newspapers in England, 90 in Wales, 201 in Scotland, 157 in Ireland, and 23 in the British Isles, total being 2234. The magazines, including the quarterly reviews, number 1778.

"It appears to me," says Sir Thomas Sutherland, chairman of the P. and 0., "that if the Admiralty wish to keep up seamanship according to its old standard, they must have a sufficient number of training ships for the purpose." The following paragraph, which concludes the annual report of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society, cannot fail to prove of interest:—"The coastal waters of New Zealatul are rapidly becoming stocked with sea-going varieties of trout, the effect of which on our New Zealand fisheries will soon be felt. Your Couucil have in the past endeavored to avoid drifting into a mere shooting or fishing club—a rock on which so many similar societies have been wrecked; and, before concluding. Would urge upon their successors to pursue the same line of conduct and strive for the public interest." — Wellington Post. "There are," says a Brisbane paper, "over 30 daily newspapers in New Zealand, all of which, excepting nine, are in a state of chronic liquidation." Tommy Judkins : " Papa, what do they mean by selling race? Is anything actually sold?" Judkins, sen: "Yes, my son, and it is usually the public." She: " Why do you call me honey, Charlie V He : " Because you are so full of little sells." Mrs Jinks (musingly) : "I asked Dr Aquapura if whisky was good for cold, and he said ' No.'" Mr Jinks : " Well, I don't believe I've got a cold anyhow. It's something else. Did the doctor mention what diseases whisky was cpbd for?" :

Guest, in New York restaurant "Waiter, there's a lot of feathers in this chicken salad !" Waiter—'' Yes, ;we puts 'em in not ne'ssarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith." " Where is the doctor, and what is he doing?" "He's reading over his sermon of the morrow, to acquire fluency in its production." " Oh, I see ! A kind of practising-what-he-preaches system." A debt collector in England lias just been fined L 5, at the instance of the Incorporated Law Society, for having represented in a letter that he was instructed by his "client" to take proceedings for the recovery of a certain debt. The whole matter turned upon the use of the word " client." It is a noun substantive sacred to lawyers, and must not be employed by other persons. An editor, who does not mind a joke at his own expense, says he went into a drug store recently, and asked for some morphine. The assistant objected to giving it without a prescription. " Why, asked the editor, "do I look like a man who would kill himself?" "I don't know," said the assistant, "if I looked like you I should be tempted." " How do you like your new typewriter, Jack?" "Very well, except for one thing." " What is that ?" " Why the wretched machine doesn't know how to spell."