MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 38

MULTUM IN PARVO.

m- Married puople live longer than the unmarried, the temperate and iudustriono longer tban tt'O gluttonous and idle, and civili-icd Batons longer than the uooivilisod. Tall persons enjoy greater longevity than flhorfc one?. On ft rough avenge, 45,000 sovereigns pass over the Bank of England oounfcers every day. — Stammering ispr&cliioally unknown among tmoivilieed people. — Mr Mfcllcck calculates that more than a million and a-qunrter of British working men live on wage* paid to them from an income that cornea to England from foreign soorc*s. At Iho end of lfcst year there were 21,168 medical students inthe United Bfcat< a. — The total c*teh of the Bri-Mi Columbia lealing fleet in 1894 was 95,000 skins, worth ever £200,000, the largest catch ever made. j.- The Chenab irrigation canal in Northern India is said to be the widest canal in the world. Ifc is 110 ft broad, and will be 200 ft broad when completed, with a length of 450 — Farinelli could sing 300 notes without drawing breath, while 50 exhaust most singers. — Chemists say that it takes more tban twice- as much sugar to sweaben preservts, sauce, &c , if put in when they b?gin to cook, as it does to sweeten after the fruis is cooked. The Transvaal has a population of neatly 50,000 Englishmen and Cape Colonists, as against a population of about 15 000 Boers. — Twelve thousand horses are killed every year in Paris for roasts and soup. — It is eaid that in Sootland there are 148 parishes enjoying the comfort of no paupers or poor rstes or pabliohouoes. — At present the BaW*tion Army uses every year £30,000 worth of paper. One is most liable to bend the body when ascending a hUI or going upstairs, and these are both oceaiious wben the flgu'e should be erect, so as to admit of freedom for the lungs. — London has 10,000 professional musicians. According to a correspondent of the Morning there is one river in England, the Hampshire Avon (and only one other in the world), which, daring a hard winter, freeze at the bottom instead of on the eu.-f*ce. It is not until a tbaw seti in that what i* locally termed the gri uud ice rises to the surface. There a'e only two male relatives of Robespierre living at the present day—Maximilian de Robespieire and his son, cow 18 year? o'd. la Arran, where the maidenhair ferns grow plentifully, some of the inhabitants use it as a substitute for tea. — A teacher of health culture declares that a simple remedy for removing blood from a tco tct^ve brain is to | exercise the muscle 3of the feeb. Stand firm'y on the ground, and then raise the heel, and rett on the toe for a second. Do this a dozen times or co in succession. It will bring an astonish- ! ing amount of relief after a hard day's mental work.

— Tho wealth of John D. Rockefeller, the [leading spirit of tho Standard Oil Company, accumu atea at the rate of £150 an hour. — The Japanese tiuce dssoent only from the father. Thus whfn an aristocrat mirrits a pltbeinn wife their children are hia equals and quite her euperior, and are upb to look dosn upon her. % — A (Ihincss proverb pays : A hundred meu may ta^ke iwi encampment, but it take* a woman to make a home. — Some extraordinary captures of arcfc : c and other rare birds have been made in the Cambridgeshire feua. A speciinpn of the arotio bird Brunnich's guillemot was found near Wisbsch St. Mary'B, not far from the fr^zm waters of the River Neno. It ia sWei that probably thia v the first specimen of this bird ever captured in Great Brifciia, aud has, no donbt, been driven southward by the severity of tbe weather. — A philologist of high repute is authority for the statement that there are 72 languages spoken in Russia. — If two tuning forks of the same pitch are placed facing oach other, the one sounding, tre other silent, in a few seconds the silent one mil be giving out a di-tinotly audiblo note. — The indus'ry — or,- as some journalist* prefer to call it, the " prolificacy "—of Hiss Adi-line Sergeant is something prodigious. Barely h%s the indolent reviewer written a notice of one of her books when he encounters three fresh volumes from her noticing pen. — Athenaeum. A member of the SnnderUnd police force has written the whole B.ble iv shorthand. He devoted his spare lime for the past two years towards the work. — When Dr Doyle was about to undertake his lecture tour in Anierina Roberb Louis Sfcevenscn wrote to him : " When you couie to America call on mo. My house is the B«coud door on the left-he nd after leaving San Francisco." — Above the doorway of the music hall in Yokohama years ago was painted in English : " For the amusrmfsnt of foreigners. No dogs or Chinamen admittad." — A Vic v oria Cross man, one of the heroes of HorkeV Drift, is now employed in the peaceful occupation of nvnding (he usibrella? and sticks of readers and dus iag books at the British Mv cum. — The oak f urnuhes food and home for 309 species of insicts, the elm for 61, and the pine for 151 In addition (h se trees re^pect.vrly famish lodgings or shelter for 150. 30, and 20 species.

A docto* 1 saya that fcbe growth of child ren takes place entirely when they 'are aslrep. • • — Heat holidays have recently been I e&fcsWished by law in the publio schools of Switzerland. Recognising the wellknown fact that tho brain cannot work properly when the heat is excer sive, the childien are dismissed from their raßka whenever the thermometer goes above a certain point. — Experiments made regarding the cause of •• spontaneous combastion " of misses of couton, grass, tobacco, &c, have led to tbe conclusion that it is due fco the fermentation caused by bacttria. No perceptib'e rise in temperature takes plsco in heaps of cotton, whether dry or moist, when bacteria are carefully excluded. — With the present optical ir.sbruroents in use, it has besn computed that 50,000 000 stars are rendered visible. A Ndrth Carolina judge recently granted divorce to a couple, and two weeks thereafter married the divorced wife, who bad considerable property. Over 1,000,000 French women were made widows, and over 3,000.000 children were made fatherless, by Napoleou's eampaiges. — To ck-ar away fcwo falls of snow averaging 4in entailr upon the ratepaje r s of London a oost of considerably l)Ver £1,000,000 sterling. It always bothers a Frenchman who is learning English to read one day that a murder has been committed, and the nezb day that the muidcrer has been committed. — In the land of the Moslem, the country of the followers of Muhsmmed, a Moslem grave, when once it has baen filled in, is nf.ver to be reopened on any Account. With a view to remove the faintest «banoe of any grave being thus defiled, the MosUras plant a express tree on every grave immediately after the i-tterraent, which makes the Moslem cenrut'ries resemble forests. — Five hundred and seventy-six ftTchvticts have entered the competition fcr the prcpar.i tion of plans For the projected Paris Eihibith a of 1900. — A cu-ious willing pursued in certain di-tricts of Sicily is that of gathering the threadlike subatanoa secreted by rcussils, which is used for meking Bilk. — The shores of the British Islnnd«, Holland, and France maintain the greatest number of lighthouses in proportion to mileage. —In the northern parts of India sheep are made to serve as leases of burden. The mountain p&tbs among the • foothills of tbe Himalaya are so precipitous that the sheep, mote surefooted than larger be&fcts, are prtfeired as burden carriers. — A Japanese' bride's playthings are burned on her wedding-day, typifying the end of her childhood. -- — dabs can see and smell, but cannot bear. — It is proposed to establish a school near London for the training and discipline of the insubordinate eons of the well-to-do, on the model of an institution which hat been a tuccers in Prat 03. — The wings of tbe owl are -lined with a toft down that enables the bird to fly without making the slightest sound, a very important matter to a pocturnil bird of prey. — Carrier pigeon* haye just ■ been smplojed for a curious purpose in Russia. Ib is to convey negatives of photographs taken in a balloon. — Horses succumb to cold quicker than any .ether animal. — Danish lighthouses are supplied with oil to pump on the waves in case «f a storm.