MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 67

MULTUM IN PARVO.

*— It's hard to work, but harder to wani — There are two" sides to every questioj •—your side and the wrong side. — A large proportion of the marin< creatures found at a great depth in tr< -colder parts of the ocean are of a re< colour. — Norfolk once held the proud positioi of being the, greatest of our cloth-makinj countries, but its prominence in this re upect has long since departed, and to-daj Manchester turns out more yards of ivatc rial than any other city on earth. — The first penny magazine in Englani was brought out by Daniel Defoe, anc Was a bi-weekly, which ran for nine years —In Java there is an orchid all th< flowers of which open at once, as if by thi stroke of a fairy wand, and they also al wither together. — The average man, if told he coulc have as much gold as he could carry j mile, would find hie fortune not ovei £6000. — Farthing packets of tea are being sol< throughout India by growers, who have a last recognised that they have an immena< market at their door. — From coal refuse are obtained 401 colours, many perfumes, several explosives a great number of acids and medicines o incalculable, value, saccharine, asphalt numerous insecticides, salts, fruit flavours lubricating oils, and varnish. — The Jib egg laid by a Cwmbwrla hei belonging to Mr James Maddoclcs, of 25! Carmarthen road, Swansea; turns out t< be. a further marvel. On the shell beini broken the white of an egg .was found but next to this was another complete egg — shell and all. — Inspector Ferrett, of lUord, England has organised a special police cycling corp to patrol the streets during the night anc run down burglars who escape from the men on foot. — Lord Rosebery inaugurated and pre sented to the village of Ceddington. Bucks, a complete water system, which has co t £2000, as a memorial to the late J-edj Jkwebery. — A Stroud merchant named Townsenc was at Bristol Assizes awarded £800( Against Swindon Corporation for injuriei received in a tramcar accident. He won a suit of clothes made before the accident to chow how he had lost weight during illness. — A whirlwind visited Lipley. Shrop alure, recently. It lifted two poultry pen! 30ft in the air, then carried them, whirl ing around each other, for 500 ft, and dashed them down again. A heavy haj waggon was twisted right round, and s pond was half emotied of its water, whicl was' sprayed about. —An ivy plant which established itsell in a crevice of the tower of St. John the -Baptist's Church, Yarborough, Lincolnshire, has caused- such damage .that £600 will be required to put Ihe towei in repair. The roots undermined the foundations, gradually lifting the stones out of' place. — Griff House, near Nuneaton, where George Eliot's early childhood was spent, has Deon visited recently by so many English and American tourists that the Warwickshire County Council — which use* the building as a school — has resolved to make a charge of 6d per head to view the interior. — The Rev. W. H. Boyne Bunting, rector of Porlock, Somerset, comolains of vandalism by holiday-makers. Within the last three months he had to protest against the one party eating their lunch in his church and against another party who chimed the bells. — The Vicar of Leeds (Dr Bickersteth) has announced that the Bishop of Ripon has in mind the further subdivision of his diocese, and is' pre-ared under certain conditions, to surrender £1000 of the present ' income of his see in . order that there might be two sums of £500 in hand towards the creation of two new sees, one of which would probably be a Bishopric of Leeds. — Knitting 1 is declared to lie a most helpful exercise for hands liable to become stiff from rheumati«m, and it is sometimes prescribed by phvsioians because of its efficacy. For persons liable to cramp, paralysis or any other affection of the fingers of that character, knirfing is regarded as a most beneficial exercise. — Workmen engaged in laying a new sewer in Oranse street. London, at the rear of St. George's Barracks, found a d»stised skittle alley, 60ft long. 9ft 6in wide, and 7ft 9in high, running along and under the south side of the street adjacent to the property of the Office of Works. Its existence was unknown to the authorities. — One hundred pounds damages pod eorfte was awarded by Judge Shirres Will, K.U., at Altrlnoham to William Taylor, a Btud groom*, who had been bitten by # a shire horse belonging to Mr S. S. Rengill, a, 'gentleman farmer, of Rinjrwav, roar Altrinoham. The plaintiff was attacked br a shire horse, known as Beaumont Harold, of -which he' had charge, and had two fingers bitten off. — Fifty-four kinds of wild birds visit Jjondon, and for their protection the London County Council has issued an elaborate " leeral notice." Bird-catchers, according to the secretary of the Selborne Society, need not leave London to do their work; by taking their "call-bird" to any piece of vacant srround, with some lime and food, they can lure any number of little songsters. — One of the most striking, and at thesame time nrost practical, monuments ever erected to the cause of temperance may be seen in TeYnperance street, Worcester. A certain man who had spent much money on intoxicants suddenly awoke to his folly, and determined to save Jhe sums he would have otherwise frittered in this direction. With the money thus saved he erected a fine row of cottages, giving instructions to the builders for certain bricks to be so arranged as to form the words, "The blessing of God on total abstinence Irom all intoxicating drinks." One may see the inscription running along the wall just over the' windows. — The fish most useful to man is perhaps the cod, and it is one of the most pTolifio of the denizens of the sea. As an article of diet it is a most important addition to'wir food supplies. The tongue' is regarded as a delicacy, and the liver vivea os the 'Oil which is so much used as a tonlo and a food in consumption and all wasting complaints. The Norwegians give j cods' heads mixed with marine plants to I con to inorease their yield of milk; the I Icelanders give the bones to their cattle j ' in Kamschatka dogs are fed on them: and In icy wastes codfish are frequently dried fend used as fuel. » »

I —Mount Sangay is the most active volcano in the world. It is situated in Ecuador, is 17,120 ft in height, and has been in constant activity since 1728. The sounds t* of its eruptions are sometimes heard in a Quito, 150 miles distant, and 267 reports were once counted in one hour, c — An extraordinary addition has been c made to the exhibition of inventions held 1 in Berlin. A shoemaker named Wegner. living in Strasburg, has sent in a clock 1 of the grandfather shape, nearly 6ft high. ? made entirely of straw. The wheels, '■' pointers, case, and every detail is excluf sively of straw. Wegner has taken 15 * years to construct this strange piece of mechanism. It keeps perfect time, but ° under the most favourable circumstances * cannot last longer than two years. •• — A patent has just been granced in B Germany for an invention for Me c;airis facrure of glass telegraph and telephone * poles. A company has been organised, and a factory for the manufacturing of s« 1 poles has been built at Gross- . U Tierxte, fc near Frankfurt. The fjlass mass of wh/ch r the poles are made is strength jned by , interlaying and intertwining with str- nj? <* wire threads. One of the nrincipal advan- * tages of these poles would be their use c in tropjcal countries, where the wooden poles are soon destroyed by the ravages 0 of insects and climatic influences. The *; poles are very cheap, costing 25s 'd<?h f pole of 23ft in length, 'Hie Imperial Fost ; « Department of Germany has ordered a '» large supply.