MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 1958, 30 May 1889, Page 37

MULTUM IN PARVO.

_In a,pamphlet issued by the- Society for the promj^tioft. offprint among Native Races it is mentioned that between the years jBB3 and 1887 over 30,000,000 gal of spirits were poured into Africa. 1 the French Aoademy o f Sciences' for a paper on thetransmission of pdwer, by; electricity has beetf withdrawn, n<) papW <4 sufficient merit havings been received. —A new road-sweeping machine has been tried on Holborn Viaduct, London.. . It can be easily tfttabhed to" any cart and : worked by an inexperienced' hand. Travelling at the rate of three miles an hour, the machine sweeps through 1200 square feet per minute of any road, and places the mud in the cart behind without noise or splash. —The State telegraphs in England sfcill fail to meet expenses. The outlay last year/ exceeded the receipts by more than £6000, L and there was still interest to pay upon a'^ loan of £10,880,571. The .total deficiency; amonnte, "therefore, to no less a sum than £332,501. Since 1872 the country has paid In taxation toward the working of the telegraphs the' enormous sum of £3,367,4.00. \—lt hasi'.been ascertained that during a single voyage by the. Canard steamship Btraria, on'lne average crockery is broken at the rate of 900 plates, 280 cups, 438 saucers, 1213 tumblers, 200 wineglasses, 27 decanters, and 63 water bottles. —A lady who with others descended the Chollar shaft on the JDomstock to see the dynamos at work, touched a small temporary wire which supplied the current to one of t the incandescent lamps, and received a very severe shock? The shock, though not dangerous, threw her down into the giraffe, and her screams brought others' of the party to the rescue. Her hands • were found'to be badly burned and her nervous system received a severe shock. — Im Italy no game of violence is ever practised. ; The Italian regards a blow, even in play, as rqugh and brutal, and 'moreover, unwise, peeing that it inspires ill-will and revenge. Children in Italy are, and always bave been, educated 'without blows ; the rod is not there an instrument of instruction; they are"; on the contrary, early taught to regard blows as unworthy of Christians. — It is curious to think that the number of persons necessary to carry tradition down from the time of Adam to the present day might all be contained with ease in a large-sized room, calculating them at a rough guess to comprise about 70 persons^ —The directors of the Halkyn, Mining Company in Cheshire have just declared the remarkable dividend of 120 per cent. The company has only been in existence ,s?£, five years. 1 The Duke of Westminster is lessee of the mine, the success of which is creating., a great sensation. ". ■ —The practibility of drying fish with arti- , fioiai heat has been successfully- tested -at Oanso, Nova Scptia. • This 'new method^will be tried on an' extensive scale the coming* season. — The horseowners of London are agitating' at present • with the view of having something done to Alleviate the s'ufferlrigs caused to -horses during- a snowstorm by the slippery condition of the London streets, particularly thpse laid with asphalt and wood. ~ ' —Laying a napkin, wrung out of ice water, • across the eyes, is said to have completely cored a oase of insomnia at Brooklyn, Perm. —On the San Francisco Fourth avenue electric cars, calculating the cost to be 2 cents per horse-power hour, it costs 30 cents for energy for a round trip of 12 miles, or 2£ cents per mile exsusive of wear and tear/ —On the food question, an Irish land agent quotes a case of some tenants of his In the King's County. The people referred to, a man apd'his sister, live entirely on codlirer oil, partaking of no other food. They possess a, cow ; but she is allowed to suckle her calf, and no milk is ever drawn for their own use., Notwithstanding this strango nutriment, the couple are hale and hearty. —•There are' about 600,000 barrels of cotton-/ seed oil manufactured annually in America, two-thirds of which are consumed in manufacturing lard. ,* —At a condensing company factory in Illinois 70,000 to 80,000 quarts of milk a day are used, at an .average of nine cents a gallon. —Adam and By& were white! "I have travelled in Africa, and your reply calls to my mind an African's version— l think it Was in Sierra Leone. It was to the effect that Adam and Eve were black, as also were their sons Cain and Abel, but when the former sle&bis brother he turned pale with , fright— white, in fact. His descendants also were white, hence he argues that all .white men are the descendants of Cain', and that .the " Mark Of Cain " is that of being white. —At the opening of the trial of the Bishop of Lincoln, the English . Primate sat in a chair which' belonged' to the Abbot .of Rec^ver t who jvas consecrated. Archbishop of Canterbury, in 689. —T^ MetEodists -are. ; about to invade the UorfbW territory and' establish a university at Ogden, Utah, where large, grants of land have been made them. rrThe^le^djng" industry of France is the silk manufacture ; French silk products excel those of any other country in both quantity I and quality, and France controls the silk markets of the world. As' much as 10,000,0001b "trawisjlk js<iis.ed'. annually there, andjbe yearly value of $he silk turned out reaohes £60,000,000 sterling; • Within recent years, however, American competition has been the means of sensibly lessening the prosperity of this industry. —There are 300,000 habitual criminals, paupers, idiots and insane persons hthe State of New York, of whom sevenare foreigners, or born of foreign Parents. — Dr Ohaille, the well-known statistician states that the average life of woman is longer that of man, and in' most parts of the united States woman's expectation of life is fleater. —In the new system of lighting cars by. wotriclty-the train may, be broken up &t will. tothout affecting the ligfifc* H • . : i - • -•For a breach of the_press jcenßorship. Nations the Riga, Gazette ; has been deWved for -a term of eight months ;Of f the. *«to to^nbHsh «tdvertjsementß.' T " f

' - —The United States is the richest country in the world, and it has gained this distinction in comparatively a very short time. In I 1850 the total wealth of -the* .United States] -■was £1,686,000,000, that of Great Britain being £4,500,000,000. Last year'the wealth of Great Britain was about ,£9,000,000,000, or almost exactly double what it 'ms in 1850;' but'the, wealth of the United States had risen in 1880 to £7,760,000,000, and, last year was yearly £11,000,000,000. , ' , —One ,very comfortable piece of statistics has : Been furnished by; the Gbautauquan Association to the effect that over 3000 years would be required. for any one person #o r^aii 1 all the literary works now' in existence tnat'are recognised as" standard. / * —A fashionable young woman' in \Nevr York has undergone"^ remarkablesurgicai operation, long and painful, .by which her tip-tilted nose became an organ of pure • Grecian-design. The cruel charge is made ?that the new nose does not suit the general conformation of her face.. ... 7 f •Bleofcrican " reports a rumour; from Berlin' to the effect that a means' has-been discovered of using electricity for ascertaining the true north, instead of the magnetic ' needle— that, in short, the new means : will be altogether superior to the compass and 4s likely tp^ supersede it,' '. ; — The- Toronto Globe- thinks the French language-is slowly but surely giving way to the English tongue in Lower Canada. — 'One 'of the great hindrances to the spread of the Gospel in Ceylon is said to be " the -coquetting with Buddhism which has become fashionable among Europeans." Buddha's birthday is now a Government ; holiday in the island. ' ; . .\ J \ ' — The term* uncle's, as applied to a pawnbroker's shop, is said to 1 be a pun on the Latin, worduncus, a hook. Pawnbrokers 'employed a' hook to lift articles pawned before spouts were adqpted, ".Gone to uncus," therefore," is exactly - tantamount, "ton the mpdern phrase. .:'- •", . ' j — At a' series of "tableau* vivants "' recently got -up by'certain members of the aristocracy, among other presentments which greatly amused the, audience was a friendly caricature of the"' "Grand Old' Man." - Mr Gladstone was-repre'sented'in his collars, and decently .enveloped in, a, huge bath towl, leaning over the side of abath and straining after a huge cake of Boap labelled' 11 " -Home Rule. He won't be happy $11 hegets.it," which is the motto r used in the trade advertisements o% lj Pears' Soap,- the accompanying illustration being a baby in a bath crying for a soap tablet that lies just beyond' 4 his reach. ' : r ■ — pdwardrAtkinson, the, economises of the opinion that 90 per cent,, or nine out of teu' of 'our pebple, ( spend nearly all'they earn. There comparatively, butlit'tle! sarcd for ! the. rainy day^ Out of the other 10 per cent, some,, save sufficient, to protect themselves againgt.' want, and^jthe remainder v acquire independence. ►}.* ' , .L 4 (.( , '„, 1 . — A man while eaiing lettuce m ! a Boston upon «a piece ;ofe gravel so rsudctoniy thaii it snapped a 1 - tcfdth off. He sue 4 .the proprietor, of the. restaurant for 500dol damages. The judge gave the case to -the jury. The latter'^orinaout'wha^an entire .set -of >new false Cteeth would cost and made that the -figures -of their award; — Inventor Eddison, together .with Hon. Thomas Lowry of Minneapolis^Kas^patented a steam %< lingaugraph." This lingaugraph is designed to be used on locomotives in in place of the steam whistle. The machine talks instead of shrieks. Instead of whistling once for down brakes, it bellows the word " brakes." It is all a question of pipes, valves, and key board} and when the thing is finally perfected it will toot the names of all the stations along . the line. — Cleveland Leader. . —The following advertisement lately appeared in a Parisian newspaper : " A lady having a pet dog whose hair is of a rich mahogany colour, desires to engage a footman with whiskers to .match."- '- ' ' — The longest span of wire in the world is .a telegraph wire more than- '6oooft in length, that stretches over the River Kistnah in India. . . ■' ''*'•- —There is a near relative of , the Duke of St. Albans inVa sawmill at Aoton, Florida, at this moment working for Idol a day. There is also another case of an aristocrat under a cloud — Mr Wolff, a grandson of ' the Earl of Clarendon, and a"brother of the.Right Hon. Sir Henry Drummond •, Wolff, : who was educated at Oxford, is now a porter in a grocery store at Jacksonville. : . — A steam yacht,. built in England, lately made a remarkable voyage by sailing across the channel, up the Biver Seine, and thence by canals and rivers to Marseilles on the Mediterranean Sea. — Does it not strike those who have subscribed to the China Famine Fund (says a Home paper) that famine is ,'stalking the j streets of London, and that hundreds of , poor little English boys and girls are actu- j ally dying of want in the midst of our splendid plenty and to spare 7 Let the almond-eyed mandarins take care of their own poor, and let our turtle-stuffed alder- j men take .care of the poor in the city of ■ London. It is a most monstrous abuse of j the vf ord charity, to think that it can apply such wanton cruelty to our own kith arid kin. . " , I —Work- on the Corinth, Canal has been suspended owing to the Paris crisis. Like the Panama Canal, it is a French enterprise. — Money on which 3 per cent, compound interest is being paid will double itself in 23 ' years and 164 days. — Professor Mommsen, the famous German historian, speaking of the Samoan -trouble says: "It is a dispute unworthy of men. For my part, I would not give a glass of Bavarian beer for all the islands in the Pacific Ocean." — Four young men in St. Petersburg have laid a wager that they will go on horseback from St. Petersburg to the Paris Exhibition. The journey will have to be accomplished in 75 days. The young men will be accompanied by four grooms.

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