MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2055, 13 July 1893, Page 38

MULTUM IN PARVO.

— Joseph WMett, who was intimately associated with George Steohenson in the building of tho first railway in England, died in Liverpool a few weeks ago, at the age of 91 — The speed, 23 knots an hour, which has been attained by the Campania on her offioial trial trip, places her easily in advance of any other ocean steamer. It is two knots an hour faster than the best speed yet made on the Atlantio by any steamer on a 24 hours run. — The largest opal known is in the Imperial Cabinet of Vienna. It is the size of a man s fist, weights 17oz, but is full of fissures. The opal is found in Hungary, Mexico, Honduras, and in small rounded pieces, m sand, in - — Th° extent of the oscillation of tall chimneys maybe exactly taken by a close observation of the shadows they cut; on the Memphis man haspatented an "electric vegetation exterminator," the object; of which is to kill the rank vegetation along railroads and hl^S curious result of the introduction of the electric light into Oxford has been, according to a provincial contemporary, to attract moths of very rare species to the brilliantlylighted streets.' One gentleman caught, in Broad street, a specimen of the somewhat rare . Elephant Hawk moth, doubtless attracted by fcheelecteiclight. bodies cremated in Paris was 159. Besides these 2389 fragments from the operating theatres and dissecting rooms, and I*oo bodies of stillborn children, were burnt m the ia l ß Abiut 9|600,000 kids are slaughtered in Europe annually to supply one town in France, where gloves are made. . , — The* colouring of aluminium has been aC - e Out of a total of 513 known species of animals in Africa, 472 of them are to be found * -ri&'SSB prodigal on £2 a we f k as well as- on £200. The slums are full of prodigals on even less.— Speaker. . — More than half of the hops grownjn Eng-. land are cultivated in the county of Kent, on 34,000 acres. . , . .. — Russian cotton spinners boast that they will soon be in a position to dispense with American cotton altogether. — It is customary in Japan for children to be named after the first article on which the father's eye alights after the children are born Some, therefore, bear the namesof flowers, and others the name of furniture or kitchen utensils, as Lily, Chair, Frying Pan, &c. . — The general idea that it is not safe to lend books receives little confirmation from the reports of England free public libraries. In three years only eight books have been lost at Croydon,- while over a quarter of a million are issued annually.^ of all the champagne made is jost by the bursting of bottles. — If the results of the observations oE the eclipse of the sun be reliable the biggest things on the earth are mighty small after all. It is estimated that the mountains on the sun are at least 80,000 miles high-over 10 times as high as the total diameter of the earth. # — The celebrated Johannisberger. wine all comes from one comparatively small vineyard, which is guarded with jealous care. — "I have found," said Professor A. S. Hardy, one of the editors of The Cosmopolitan, to a visitor, "that the higher mathematics may be very helpful in the writing oi poetry." It is certain that Beveral mathematicians, to say nothing of astronomers, have , been poets. , , , . — The man who first made steel pens got 4s a piece for them. > — The late Alfred Mame, of Tours, France, was the greatest publisher of Roman Catholic literature in the world. In less than a year his establishment used up 40,000 sheepskins in binding books in parchments, and the mere sweepings from his gilder's room were sold tor £2000 — The Egyptian Government has decided to present the six great European powers with the mummies of the High Priests ot Ammon, which were found two years ago ' "J Upper Egypt. These treasures are to be divided into six lots and di-awn for by the representatives of the museums of London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. — Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, South Africa, is a wonderful little town. It is but five years of age and the inhabitants number 40,000. It stands upon a gold reef, and upon this reef 50 companies are at work giving employment to 3370 white men and over 32,000 natives. — A relic of Henry VIII is tumblmg down —Parr Hall, St. Helens, the ancestral home of Catheiine^Parr, King Hal's last wife and survivor* — In some sections of the Southern States of America the graves of negroes are decorated with the medicine bottles used by the deceased during their last illnesses. The surviving relatives, when visiting the graves, often discuss the effects "of the various remedies. An English paper says that for the more advanced school of arsenic eaters certain candies are imported from Germany which, while to all outward appearances are innocent 'caramels, contain a good dose of the deadly poison, sufficient to cause paralysis, if not Someone in Paris has invented a clockwork arrangement to do away with the differences between cabmen and the public, which registers the distance covered and tho proper fare. The distance is chronicled by means of a water pump attached to one of the rear wheels. , , .. — Nearly 500 women are employed as railway station agents in Fiance, bub they get only half as much pay as men in the same positions. . , ..... — Financial statisticians estimate that the amount of money held by the various London banks is not far short of £230,000,000. < — John Roberts, the champion bidiard player, during a big break, frequently scores at the rate of 100 points per four minutes. — All the Bmokeless powder made in Kusna during the last eight months has been found to become useless shortly after having been stored. Efforts are making to remedy the defect, but so far they have bsen fruitless. la the five or six months of the year during which the sardine fishery Jasts something like 600,000,000 of Ihesa fishes are caught off the coast of Brittany alone. — A Philadelphia oyster dealer is named Shellem, and a lawyer of the same city bears the name of Honestman. — Ireland sends annually 40,000 tons of eggs — some 640,000,000 in round numbers— to Eng- • land alone. — All the archbishops of Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, have signed a document in favour of a bill to make Sunday closing in Ireland permanent.

— The Norwegian Preserving Company uses large quantities of reindeer meat for canning, and when fresh it is considered a delicacy.

— At Sandringham Hall the Prince of Wales has a completely-equipped gas works, the electric light not having yet been fitted. During the residence of the Royal family the amount of gas consumed every day is 40,000 ft.

—In the famous cellars of the Hotel de Ville at Bremen there are a dozen cases of holy wine, which have been preserved for 2£o years. If the cost of maintaining the cellar, payment of rent, interest upon the original value of the wine, and other incidental charges are considered, a bottle of this choice wine has cost £400,000, each glassful £54,000, and a single drop could not be sold without loss under £40. — A statement- recently published by the authorities of Munich gives . some startling information as to the increased consumption in that city of dog fle»h. So great an appetite seems to have developed for that food that the authorities have thought it time to interfere for the protection of dog owners. — British Medical Journal. — Paris has an insurance company thab refuses to issue policies on the Jives of any people who use hair dye. — The water lily is said to ba largely used in some parts of India as food. The fruit of some species that grow plentifully in the lakes of Caghmero is rich in starch, and has much tho flavour of a chestnut.

— At Cardiff, the cook, who was preparing a corporation luncheon, empiied a bottle of carbolic acid into the soup instead of " browniDg." The accident was fortunately discovered before the soup was served. — Inventor Sheffield, of New York, claims to have discoverod a marvellous motor, more powerful than steam, whereby it will be possible for ocean steamers to make the trip to or from Queenstown in three days. — The reason pigs are proof against snake bite is that the poison rarely, if ever, reaches the circulatory system, owing to the fat carried by the pig. — The Spanish peasant works every day and dances half the night, and yet eats only his black bread, onion, and watermelon. The Smyrna porter eats only a little fruit and some olives, yet he carries with ease his load of 2001b.

— A bacteriologist is reported to have inoculated 400 persons in India with cholera virus without evil results.

— The telephone has well nigh superseded the telegraph between London and Paris. The average time for sending and delivery of a telegram is half an hour, while the telephone gives instant communication.

— A footpad was lately captured in a Hungarian town, and with him a bear that he had tamed and taught to grapple with pedestrians whom he desired to rob.

— A sensation has been caused at Montreal by the contents of the will of the late Mr Chauleloup, the wealthy brassfounder, nearly the whole of his large fortune being left to his employees, who are to continue the business as a joint-stock company. The amount of the bequest is estimated at £200,000. — Corn husks boiled in caustic soda are being utilised for the manufacture of paper. The cooking process results in the formation of a spongy, glutinous paste, which is subjected to heavy pressure so as to eliminate the gluten, the fibre remaining being made into paper in the ordinary way. — The smallest holes pierced by modern machinery are one-thousandth of an inch in diameter. This drilling apparatus, which was the invention of one John Wennstrom, is designed to make 22,000 revolutions per minute, and is used in boring sapphires, rubies, diamonds, and other gems. — The publishers of a German novel recently did a neat thing in the way of advertising. They caused to be inserted in most of the newspapers a notice to the effect that a certain nobleman of wealth and high position, desirou* of finding a wife, wanted one who resembled the heroine in the novel named. Thereupon every marriageable woman who saw the notice bought the book in order to see what the heroine was like, and the work had an immense sale. — There are, over 150 issues of periodicals devoted exclusively to electrical subjeots published monthly in the English, French, and German languages. — For the first time in history the strains of the " Marsellaise " have been heard within the walls of the Mansion House. THis event happened when on a toast being drunk to the health of M. Waddington, the retiring French Minister, in whose honour a banquet was given, the band of the Coldstream Guards in attendance struck up the air. It was not included in the printed programme of music to be performed during the dinner. — What looks like a slight mitigation of the atrocious Russian persecution of the Jews is reported, the president of the Holy Synod having persuaded the Minister of the Interior, to exempt the secb of the Karaites from the recent anti- Jewish laws. The Karaites number only a few thousand about the Crimea chiefly. They pay less reverence to the Talmud than other Jews.

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