MULTUM IN PARVO.
— The largest police station ia the world is the new Scotland Yard, London, in which 3000 Officers can be accommodated. * — The counties of Devon, Somerset, Gloucester, Herefoid, Worcester, aud Kent contain nearly two-thirds of the orchards of Great Britain. — Joseph Manuel, aged 93, and his wife, aged 96, have just celebrated at -Kennebunkport, in the United States, the seventy-fifth anniversary of their wedding. — A Frenchman marries on an average at between 29 and 30 — that is, a year and a-half later than the average Briton. — la Siana, the first wife may be divorced, l fcut not Bold. The other wives may be divorced and Bold. — Not quite 2000 persons are living who possess British orders of knighthood ; or, roughly speaking, only aboat one in 28,000 of the population. — A widow named Ann Rose, who is hale and hearty, and in full possession of her faculties, living at Milton-next- Sittingbourne, attained her 100 th year recently She has the following descendants living : Children, eight ; .grandchildren, 55, great-grandchildren, 171 ; great-great-grandchildren, 29. If all had lived the centenamn would have had nearly 400 descendants. i — Miss Douglas?, the champion amateur . markswoman of England, recently scored 57 trallseyes in succession with a revolver at 20yds range. — A well-kcown optician sells 1000 glass eyes a year, and be reckons that the number of glass eyes used annually in the United Kingdom is about 50,000. The average life ot a good English glass eye is 12 months. English workmanship in this article of commerce is Baperior to all others. — It is proposed in Texas to levy a tax of £10 on all unmarried men of 30 years or over who do not swear under oath that they have tried to enter the matrimonial state. — It is very difficult indeed to tell a glass eye if it fits properly. Teardrops gradually destroy the enamel of the glass eye, and nothing has been discovered to resist the acid contained in a tear. — It is claimed that there are 55 dogs in the Ujjited Kingdom to every 1000 inhabitants. —It appears that 10 separate lines of British-Indian railwajs, aggregating 1400 miles, are owned by native rulers. — It requites about double the power to propel a steamship 21 miles, an hour that it does to move along the same vessel at the rate of 16 miles an hour.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 44
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391MULTUM IN PARVO. Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 44
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