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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13859, 23 March 1907, Page 7

— Tho immensity of the Liverpool Corporation servico is shown by tho fact that its salary list embraces between 16,000 atid 17,000 employees, over 1000 of whom aro on tho clerical staff. Numerically tho strongest is the education department, with over 5000 (teachers, assistant teachers, pic.); the city engineer's department comes next with nearly 4000, tho constabulary and! tramway sections nm into almost a dead heat with close upon 2000 each, the elcctrio lighting and power department employs just upon 1000, tho water department lx>tween 600 and 700, and the comparatively new department liko that of the infectious hospitals has in its servico about 400. By far tho largest proportion of tho aggregate is, of course, workmen. As may bo imagined, tho amount of money paid in wage< and salaries is pretty considerable. — A remarkablo instance of precocity is afforded by a, lad' named Norbort Weiner, who has just entered Tufts College, Modford, Mass., as a freshman, Wiener may be said to hold the record as tho youngest, collegian in tho country. This phenomenal boy is 11 years old. He is tho son of Professor Loo Wiener, of Harvard, and ho will be graduated, if all goes well, three yearn before the average youngster begins to think of entering college; in fact, is through high •school. Ho knew his alphabet when ho was 18 months old, and began to read' when three years old. When ho was eight he was reading Darwin. Huxley, Ribot, and Haeckel, along with tho works of other scientists and philosophers. His father .is assistant professor of Slavonio languages,at Harvard, and young Norbert is himself well versed' in tho languages taught by his sire at that institution. Although far advanced in his mental development, young Wiener is in ovcry other way la. normal, healthy boy, fond of outdoor sports, especially swimming and baseball. He has been brought up a strict vcgcta- — The Marquis of Bute was present at a mooting in Rothsay, held to form a Bute branch of An Comunn Gaidhealaoh. In the course of an address hie Lordship defended the movement in preservation o£ the (Jaclic language. One of tho objects of tho society was-to promote the wearing of tho national dress, by which ho did not mean wearing the kilt on special occasions, but wearing it every day. — A French representative orew is f.', compete for the Grand Challenge Cup atHenley this year. — The tramp nuisance in South Wales has reached sucn a pitch that many people are afraid to 30 to.jchurch on Sunday. «veuings.. "