MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 1966, 29 October 1891, Page 44

MULTUM IN PARVO.

— Instantaneous photography baa been used to record the movements of the lips in speaking, and by patting the photographs in a zoetrope a deaf mute oan easily read the words. —The indefatigable Germans are always scientifically investigating something. This time it is oheeae, -and the digestibility of different kinds is thus stated as the result :— Cheshire and Roquefort are the most easily digested. —There are said to be about 22,000,000 aorea of forest in Hungary. Of these the Government owns about 3,500,000 aoreß and buys more each year, and refuses to Bell any that it possesses. —In round figures, the Portuguese debt just now amounts to about 150 millions sterling, bearing 3 per cent, interest, and entailing therefore an annual charge of nearly £4,500,000. But the whole revenue of the country does not amount to £8,500,000. — The railway companies of Great Britain oarried last year about 800 millions of passengers, of whom only 18 were killed by accidents to trains, rolling stock, permanent way,or other cause? donneoted with their conveyanoe. From the same causes 496 passengerswere injured. —The Liverpool Journal of Oommeroe is informed that the engineering world will shortly be startled by the appearance of a new engine whioh will revolutionise motive power, '.' —The population of France is now 38,095,150, while that of the United Kingdom ii 37,740,283, so that Great Britain has now some within 354,867 of her great neighbour; At the beginning of the present century France was. 27,000,000 to the 16,000,000 of the British Islands. ~m-~- ,: j .'u:.n , —The thinnest man who ever lived was probably Claude Ambroise Seurat, who was exhibited in, London in 1825, and was then 28 years of age. ' was sft 6in. and hie chest showed the fair measurement of 33£ in, but his weight was^only 451b, which is about the weight of an ordinarily developed 1 ohild or" six years old. ' -' ■- - J .-.•■-, ~"”7 A - person wounded must' die within a year and a day to make the person inflating the wound guilty 1 of murder. . — At one time two soldiers died of consumption for one civilian ; now, four oivilians die for every, three soldiers. —Prom the sun our earth would appear as a bright Btar, and from the nearest fixed star it would be invisible/ ' —Lady Dufferin's Fund for Supplying Women Doctora ta Indian Women has been a great success. At present there are 32 qualified women physicians scattered throughout India, 72 missionary phyaiciantf practising, and about 200 women students in the Indian medical schools. ' • ( "- - - , " . —The' Sultan of Morocco has <lireoted that young girls shall no longer be publicly sold in the markets of Fez and other towns. —The famous J library of 'Edinburgh TJniver* sity contains' nbarly 150,000 volumes; besides raanyvaluable MS. •""-•< ■ — Turkny and Greece arethe only two European countries in which the railways are entirely owned' by. the State. Germany and France, however, own f several of the principal lings Jn their respective countries. : . „ ■ —The eleotrio light in lighthouse's has- driven away thb fish from various portions of the English coast. — Thßtbtal-Wdage required for a first-rate man-of-war ebip' weighs about 80' tons, and' exoeeds £3000 in value. - ; —Iron expands with heat. So if railway, rails were laid' to ; exaotly moot one another, a[ piping hot summer/day would result in the destruction of the track. It is 400 miles from ' London to Edinburgh, and on the average the railway lines that lie between the two. places are 340 yds loriger'ia summer than* in winter. '- — Anelephantlarger than' Jumbo 'hats been captured in Africa; ' v ■•- »•» • -'■Steadily, not by leaps and bounds, but bjr an advanoe which if Blow is irresistible, the 'Liberal' party, under the leadership f of Mr Gladstone, is drawing near to its final triumph. —Speaker. >....- j . „ , * —New York, Paris, and Berlin altogether have not so large an area as London. . —A new malady has been discovered, bred by the kiss of a dog, v Eohirioooeoua "' is its' name. ' ' ' « - - > •>. l • «?£ c ayer i* fi heJ B fat of an oW man over 80 is sft 6m, and of an old ! Woman of •Aout the 1 same age, sft 3in. The pulse-rate in the mau r " 3 an ? the breath 18 « wba e w th* woman it is 7B and.22 respectively. • „ ... , —If 'members of the "House of Gammon* were paid at the same rate aB- the members of the United states .Congress, their salaries would amount to'about £67ft,000.a year.' • - Germany's area is 208:427 sduaremiles a little larger than California; but away behind Texas. >"■■'- >*.i. < , : — Th 6 secret sooieties of Ohina'are well-nigh ' innumerable, and they exist for every sort Of ? purpose, "political, philanthropic and sodial/ Next, it must be borne in mind that thefr ate not confined tq China, but exist all over the East, yyyherever a rfew hundred, Chinamen are to be found, there is a secret society. • > ■ , —A. Venetian glass manufacturer is aafd to be making and Belling bonnets by the thousand. The glass olotk'of which ttey are made has the name shimmer and brilliancy of colour 1 aB silk, and is ! impervious to wafer. •> :- ~ln^thewa# of beltibg; leathe^ißTitaotKoinKto have everything;its wayPaß formerly. -The substitution ofr camera. hair,, cotton, paint and chemioalß for leather in machinery belting in saidto. be'meeting with Borne auocesß. —In 500 cases of people over 80, most came from long-lived families, enjoyed gooj homes, good appetites, good digestßnß, and easy, con' tented dispositions, were moderate eaters oonBU 5! d , H tfcle * loohol Dr medicine, and were capital sleepers. • s or „ ; -A- -few days »go there died in a Vienna hospital, aB the result of a street acoident, a tramcar driver who had been for many years in the service of the company. It turns out that the deceased was Baron Erwin of Schonßtein, who was formerly a millionaire, and the last member, af a distinguished family. «rS fy^uFJ*!**^ properly it may ho naou ded in blookn in the shape of bricks. A hotel has been bmlfc irr Hamburg entirely of compressed wood as hard as iron, and rendered absolutely proof against fire aad the attacks of insects by subjeotion to ohemioal processes, i'u tt* d wara from W6 to 1886 have cost £124 OOOOOC? StateS Government aboQt ~The number of watches exported from hwitzerland has increased from 2,734,284 in 1885, to 4,431,301 last year. Altogether the '"Peofthe exports last year is calculated at feiiOOO.OOO, while the wages paid are bo high that many families earn from £12 to £16 a month. —The Smithsonian Institution has reoeived from China a pair of stockings manufactured from human hair. They are worn by fishermen over cotton stockings (being too rough for the naked Bkin), and undet straw shoes, an a protection against moisture. —Over 50,000,0001b of sugar are used every - year in the tTpiJed Kingdom in the brewing of beer in addition to thersaoobarine principle of ' the malt, ' !

I — In the Mumal kingdom thero areaaid to be tnou of a law that fixes the extreme duration of life at five times that of growth/ —The risks of a pilgrim»ga to Meco* may aake the most earnest Maaanlman hesitate to undertake that pious duty. Of the ' 66,000 pilgrims who have sailed from various Oriental ports for thu aaored spot during the last sit years some 22 000 haye P neverwSirned. y fl a"- The lon X8 Bt, enduring f or six yeawon? maater w «133 19a, as ag amB t £101 16 a7d in :--The Ktothaobild* amoke fienry Qlav'a "Sobranoa,]'. which cost 5a or £e!2. They fnLT^ lll^^ l^ and Backed 0 HtSl inlaid cedar-wood oabinet 8 . they alao bw de^oSar* B^ oo^ ol6^ rtSnSS Flo? de. Uubas. Some time ago a Manehnfltnt '?^n«t offered some d&WSSISS *?$ a *w'ohMer at that'figure hZSti ®to**r*s™ io-deohtfiiig -that, *,ZbL n No * we Bla»B la » shipowner coEtraata the ,working of an Engliah >nd a Norwanau of a^mftl steamer with a crew of 13 hands. The Warn receives leas, and he urges ttiat it would be "very-rprofitable for ' English Bbip. owriers their ships to the&orwegian fl»g, as they oan be more cheaply sailed from JNosway<. ,'»"!. < , , ..(' , Great Britain have gone from regular tillage into, permanent pasture, ■** — BirmingHam has been pronounced by an —The moat ancient earldom of Europe, narhapa moat ancient io Great Britain, is that of v';.,. . a ?. °\ tne n»08f anoient titles of J^ym. Scotland fe the Barldom of M * teajh, dating from the twelfth century.,. - —Afnoa ,haa yearly 700 lauguagaa, and thia effort 1 *" 8 ' BM^ t diffioultjß ? *? "pwionar? ---Over £10,000,000: sterling is spent every year i ? ohViby!i n :the United Kingdom. • «J"« i - 10 , weldm g ha 8 *ow become almost umveraal m large eatablishmenta. . The uae & a &« U *f ac(^ Baty * ¥ B^^f ianowußed for making forginga, a,ugera, railroad, apikes, i£w£^ § &0* other artiolea hitherfco made by-hand « expansive macbinery. 1? • —Eleotrio ffgWinV iri'London'is prooaecling comeftmea poaaeHamg provisional 'ordera under — Mr :Beßant delights in «trange young peraons: illiterate, but capable of tfiehfgheat Sftwmi vugmal,. but, .very masouline.; Eoble and lofty, but' with an abandoned. taster for - e^?I 11 ?? Rthe'.Peopjle.^-I'aU Gazette: "~ir- sef5 e f «k?« k ?M tle ' *?' M » Channel ocoupyinff one-third of the'bottom/ The 1 frtfinary h&ating itrtth is Chua ao 'muchiniSfearfed tost the kettle boila^mdre quickly than the tordiUary '«ntL' ' ■ • 5.... ti". i.v •i -The wealth of the United State? amounts o^? l3^'^ 000 ' dUwibuted among 13,900,000 famUiea/ There are 138,000 families £88 000 - verage -' weait^' of about 'a r^ m i . hu 5 d , r ed tons 1 of green paaa were delivered in London by the Great Eastern Ktalway Company on a recent Saturday. This large quantity bo depreßsed the pride in the market that moat of them are said to have been sold at alona to the growers. v :