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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13888, 27 April 1907, Page 14

— The velocitv of the wind can be reckoned by noting the musicut.pitch of the sound given out when blows across a stretched wire. The principal elements on which the calculation is based are the diameter of the wire and the temperature of the air. The length of the wire is immaterial, so long as it is not changed. Every variation in the wind's velocity is. faithfully represented by tho rising or falling of the pitch of the note sung -by the W' tc - „ ~ T n "Some little time ago, says ilr J. b. Boyle, Kelmscott, W.A., "I was suffering from a severe cough, which threatened to' take a serious form. Hearing so much about Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, I decided to give it a trial, and tos my great satisfaction was completely cured by the tune I bad finished the'first bottle." For Bale everywhere — The orange is the longest-lived of fruit trees. It begins to bear the third year after budding, and for a century it will yield abundant crops. Orange trees have boen known to live 300 yoars. The orango requiros less care and attention than any other fruit tree. Its early growth is j rapid. In the first tv:o years it grows more than it will in tho next 50. This refers, of course, !o its height and broadtb alone; its fruit stems, and consequently its crops, increase more rapidly after tho first 10 years. — Owing to tho great crash that prevails ot certain of the great railroad stations in London in tho early morning to procure workmen's tickets, automatic machines for tho issuing of tho same have been installed, thereby avoiding tho long queues at tho booking offices, and expediting the delivery of the tickets,