MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 10 April 1890, Page 45

MULTUM IN PARVO.

—The Baptist Missionary Society of Itigland is trying the experiment of Sending ttu't unmarried men to India; who will rqftain unmarried, and will devote their time to personal intercourse with the natives. r—Kpsom salt or sulphate of magnesia was originally obtained by evaporating the waters of the springs at Epsom, the celebrated racing town in Surrey. When it was dis» covered that sea brine also contributed large quantities of this salt* the manufacture at Epsom was given Up. —A great flight of locusts, believed td havß covered 2000 square miles, recently crossed the .Red SCa ftotti the' African 'Shore. ■^tHie "omcial returns of the, hiimber of horses arid mules used k kh& British mili-i fei-y, Sejcvijie show T that there are now actually 24,400 animals at work for riding or draught purposes,', exclusive' of those belonging to officers, the total being aboat'l2oo below the number voted in the army estimates. , --There are ho - less than £.800,000 of rivets in- the: Eiffel^ower, and 7-,d00,606 of ; Jutfes had to be pierced; wh,iip a .yer.fe'ct Sno'unitain, o.f ipajier was w.ah ted for the 3000 working drawings required by the engineers'. — Iv geographical extent Siberia, is the largest country undjßr One government on jife %:ce of.thVglotie. , From north-east to southwest, Siberia is S6OO miles long 1 . From n.6rth' to so'utb its extent is 2JL7O miles, and it comprises, with Central Apia, the province late|y conquered frqm, Turkistan s above 6,006,000 bqtiare miles, a torritory twice the' size' of the .United State's, or excluding Mexico, as large 'as all North America.

— Two million acres of permanent pasture have been laid down in Britain within the last 10 years.

— The King of Sweden and Norway who is a great ornithologist, hasjiist sent a commission of bird fanciers to Central Asia to 1 bring back as many feathered' animals^ from lhat cotintty as possible^ ' Afterward.' thjese gentlemen ate to go to Africa, and then- [to ! South America. Their instructions are to* collect birds of every sort not' kndwrr'ih, Europe. — Holland and France are at loggerheads it\ a quiet way about the possession of apiece of disputed territory which the one country olaims as a portion of the oolony of Dutch (Juiana, whilst the other rhaintains that it belongs to French ditto. —A bar of Welsh gold has been forwarded to the British Geographical Society, with the request that it be used in the making of the ihedal that the society is to give to Stanley. — It has long been known that the temperature of deep mines and bore-holes' rises the deeper one goes ; and recent observations made in a bore-hole over a mile deep at Schladebach, near Duerrenberg in Germany, have shown that the rate of increase of temperature in descending is ldeg Fahrenheit f»r every 65ft.

— The rule of growth is that a child should increase 21b in weight for every inch in height between 3ft and 4ft and 2£lb for every inch between 4ft and sft.

—An English woman who had written a history of Wales and dedicated 1 it to the Prince o£ Wales has sent him a presentation copy which is bound in solid gold extracted from the recently developed mines in that country.

— A recent report of the director of the Paris Exposition places the final figures covering the amount of money brought into Paris by out-of-town people at £50,000,000.

— The immigration to the United States during the year just closed is likely to prove about 100,000 smaller than it was during 1888, when it was a little more than 500,000. There has been a pretty steady decline since 1882, when the tide reached its highest point, bringing into the country in that year about 720,000 aliens. Germany continues to send the largest number coming from* any single country, nearly 100,000. 'England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales combined send about 140,000.

— Some of the finest hospitals in the world are the municipal hospitals in Brazil.' The Misericordia at Rio Janeiro receives 14,000 patients yearly;

— How lightly people speak of a million of money ! Why, it would require 100 strong men to carry it away in gold, then each man would have to carry £10,000, representing 2001b in weight.

— The Gulf Stream really starts in the Antarctic Ocean; it then skirts the west ooast of Africa, crosses to Cape St. Rogue, and enters the Caribbean Sea, and so into the Gulf of Mexico, out of which it emerges bearing its best known name.

— The London authorities have put a stop to the holding of lotteries for the benefit of charitable institutions, which have heretofore been winked at when quietly conducted.

— Ib is stated that amongst the poorer and more ignorant classes of the Paris population there is a brief that the epidemic of influenza which so long raged in the French capital was brought about by the poor people drinking the " coloured water " which, it is maintained, was, after doing duty in the luminous fountains of the Exhibition, supplied by the Municipality to the poor for drinking purposes. — A German Exhibition is to be held in London next year. A sight of some 30 acres has been fixed upon in a very accessible position. — Paris is at all times a far less healthy city than London, suffering as it does from greater extremes of heat and cold, as well as more defective drainage. Still even in London there are plenty of people predisposed to attacks of all kinds by inadequate nourishment and constitutional debility. — Saturday Review. d — The English language has been chosen ' for use in the recording of important treaty engagements between Russia and China. — The United States has received from foreign countries since 1820 an aggregate of 15,000,000 of people, of whom Great Britain has sent about 6,000,000, Germany about 4,500,000, Norway and Sweden about 800,000, and France about 350,000, Ireland alone has sent nearly 3,500.000.

— The German Government is now experimenting with a novel kind of shoe for the infantry regiments. The sole consists of a sort of metallic welt filled with gutta percha and resin. This costs much less than leather, and aids in the elasticity of the marching step.

—The conception of the Primrose League was a veritable stroke of genius. Self-re-Bpecting persons in America may wonder at the effect of all the tomfooleries of the Primrose League ; to understand it they must resided in England sufficiently long to have realised the ingrained snobbery of so many Englishmen and Englishwomen.— Mr Labouchere.

—The climate of the high tablelands of Central Asia is very disagreeable, but from opposite causes, for here We find that there is insufficient moisture in the air to check the radiation to the earfcli by day or from the Bartli by night, so. that the range of temrierature in the 1 24 hours is often more than the strongest constitution can Wi\ , . .— The jStraib' or Gibraltar is in length 56~miles and in breadth from 19 to 23 miles. — The wife 1 of a politician, who has an eye for the main chance, keeps a scrap-book of all the uncomplimentary things > printed abput her hußbandj which is an index for ready reference in "seasoris of domestic unpleasantness. ' —A- new cdlciijatinjj . madhine • has just iJsen inVkri bed ,ln France, w and obtained agold medal at the Exhibition. The inventor is M. Bollee", of La Mans; a clever machinist, ( b1» ready very favourably known by other useful iave&tioiis. Tlie machine does addition, multiplication; and division with astonishing rapidity, and all by a turn of ,the wheel. . ■ -Official returri/s show' thkfc not less than 500,000 persons in the'biby of Vienna and its Bubtirfts, amounting to 42' per cent, of the population, have suffered, from the influenza. — So persistent and so peremptory are the demands made on the' French Government by their Republican supporters for places and preferments that shoals of appeals are annually .pladed on the pension list merely to iriake room for more plade men. . The annual tbtal of the Ciyil Pension List in France has} in short, Ueen increased liy over £1,100;000 sinide the Republican form of Government has been in. force. . , 1 —The Duke of Marlborough''has thrown tradition to the : winds, and has joined in the -crusade against the iniquities of the ground 'landlords oi! Londorit , — th, the neighbourhood of .Mainz a large, djiantit} of coins Was dug up, which are believed to have been .buried about the beginning of the Thirty Years' war, as they range from 1350' to 1620. Many of the coins are very rare ; among them is a gold guldqn piece of Frankfurt of the year 1522, of which only one other specimen is known to be in existence.

—Before the Civil war the money value placed upon the working force in a slave, a young negro field-hand, was lOOOdol and upward, and upon a skilled mechanic over 3000dol. Dr Farr and Edward Chadwick, both eminent sanitarians, practically confirm these estimates.

' — During a course of deep-sea soundings on a line extending from lievr Zealand to the Tonga or Friendly Islands, undertaken by her Majesty's ship Egeria, an extraordinary depression of five miles and 168 ft was found in latitude 24deg 37min south, and longitude 135deg'8min west. Several other depressions were found near the same locality, varying from 3-006 ' to 4300 fathoms, all of which appear to be crater-like depressions in a tolerably shallow sea. —The oldest lawsuit on record is now being tried in the highest Russian court at St. Petersburg. It was brought 500 years ago against the city of Kamenez Podolsk by the heirs of a dead nobleman to recover many thousand acres of his estate which had been confiscated by the municipality. The written testimony is said to weigh 45 tons. So serious a detriment to health has cigarette smoking become in Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, that the Governor made special reference to it in his late message, and the city authorities have followed up the matter by passing an ordinance forbidding the sale of cigarettes in that city. — An ordinary house in a London street or square is in some respects as isolated as the loneliest homestead on a Yorkshire moor. No one ever thinks of asking whether all is well within, and if th© whole of the inmates were for some reason placed Itors de combat, its occupants might suffer something very like starvation without the outside public ever knowing anything about it.— Spectator. — It is announced that a go-ahead electrician is experimenting in the production of a wall paper which shall not only be made sufficiently luminous by electricity to light the rooms on the walls of which it is hung, but shall also, by the same agency, be made to give out sufficient heat when needed to warm the apartment i ' • —In the 10 years between 1871 and 1881, tbe proportion of women workers to every 100 meiy workers rose among tailors from 33 to 50 ; paper makers, from 65 to 80 ; carpet and rug makers, from 47 to 59 ; bootmakers, from 13 to 20; stationers, from 34 to 53 ; booksellers and publishers, from 15 to 17 j printers, from 2 to 4; and the proportion of female glass, china, and fustian makers to every 100 males was 60.

— When the balloon problem is solved (says the Boston Transcript) and stationary balloons can be anchored at convenient long distances above the city, the overhead wires can be carried up to small poles set along the balloon line of stations, and the wires will all be pulled up out of the way.

— A man in the London slums makes a living by selling hot water at a halfpenny per quart.

— There are no less than 20 judges in Ireland receiving between £2500 and £8000 per annum.

— Butter made out of the Thames mud is an old story, but it is only recently that some scientific American has discovered that a particular sort of earth makes very good sweets, or, rather counterfeits very good sweets. -The earth, which .is called "terra alba," is just bound together with a little gelatine or gum, and then dipped into peppermint, ginger, or some other extract to flavour it,

Klokiumh-Poh thb Thbth xhd Brbath.-A i v* li.-opnot iho liquid " Kloriline"«prinkled on a «et t(joth-bru«b produce* a pleasant lather, which Mioroughlvcleauie* tho teeth from all paraiites or iintiuritfet. harden* tbs gums, prevent* tartar, stop* d«-<.-fty, civo» to the t«*th a peculiar pearly whiteue«u," and- a delightful lrß«!vaßce to the breath. It removes all unpleHsant oaoiu arising from decayed teeth or tobacco-»moke. " Tue Fragraftt Florilino, being oomposed in part of honey and sweet herbs, 1* d«licious to the taste, and the greatest toilet discovery of the aga. Prioe 3a 6d. of all Chemists and Perfumer*. Wao!e*»l« d«poj, 93 fjurrinfdtn roA London.— [iUffJ