MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 67

MULTUM IN PARVO.

♦ — —In Spain the sovereign comes of age. at 16. — The native drink in Morocco is green tea syrup. — About five millions is &•. estimated population of Morocco. —Of every million males bom 158,523 die before they are a year old. — The Tsar of Russia rules over oneBixtih of the world. — Australia produces over £15,000,000 worth of gold yearly. — The estimated war strength of the Spanish army is 200,000. — Members of the Russian Duma are elected for five years. — Except on the coast, there are no inns or hotels in .Morocco - .... — One troy pound of standard silver is coined into 665. Over £7,000,000 is spent in a yeaT m yrages for the British' fleet. German law forbids married women to act as public school teachers. Morocco has three capitals — Fez, Morocco, and Mequinez. —Denmark's naval estimates for this year amount to £462.500. —Id Morocco there are practically no roads or wheeled vehicles — The number of all ranks in the British fleet stands at 128,000. The' cost of clothing a recruit in the Life Guards amounts to nearly £27. —It costs. Btitaij £200 to train a boy to become an 1 AJS." in the navy. -^Of every £100 spent in the- building if a, British battleship £70 goes in wages. — The President of the French Republic receives a salary of 1.200,000 francs (£50,000). a . . — Nearly -£10,000,000 wortn of fish is landed in a. year in the United Kingdom. —In 10 years 2500 ,men engaged m British fisheries have lost their lives. In Spanish restaurants and in Turkish baths waiters are called by clapping tho hands. , — The Kaiser's palace in Berlin stands on. an island in the centre of tho city. — Three-quarters of the total population of Spain are- engaged in agriculture — French Deputies have now to lign a time-she^ when entering the Chambei. — Queen Alexandra is entitled to the tail of every whale caught on English shores. —M. Bleriot has met with over 50 accidents during the course of his many flights. — Nobody may be employed in German business premises at a go-eater height than 6b 2-3 ft. -In one minute the armoured ships of the British fleet could hurl 130 tons of metal at an 2nemy. —By treaty no European may enter Morocco ffom Melilla, and all traffic with the interior must be in native hands. — XKiring the last 13 years the prices of breadstuff's and live stock .have n-sarly doubled themselves in the United States. — Kaiser William pays about £"27.000 annually out of his own pocket for the support of the Prussian royal, theatres. —It i 3 estimated -that 2,200,000,000 her rings are landed in Britain, in a year. Then total -value is *bout £2,000,000. * — Over £32,000,000 in duties on tobaccc was collected in Great Britain for the 15 months endrng March 31 last year. — A novelty in pawnshops is to be found in Ichang, China. The town contains a small pawnshop in a magistrate's office, run by the prisoners. The rate of intereel is ibou* 3d per Is 6d per month, except during the last, three months of the year, when it is reduced to about id. —It dees not require- a great* amouni of discrimination to see- a connection between ladies' hate and' bank notes, but it h eomethiiiig new to learn from a French' con temporary that the two things may have been ma do from material grown on the samt plant. French bank notes, in fact, whicli were formerly made from silk, are now made from the fibre of ramie, or China grass — a' substance long used in the East tor ropes and cordage, and for cloth in China and Japan. The French Government imports each year about 60 tons ol the fibre, which is transformed into bank notes at the Government paper Victory at Bierey. The fibre is also largely used :r the manufacture of ladies' straw hats ol th-3 more expansive kinds. — Greenland, with its icy mountains, U very exclusive, and so far from .inviting vieitort it even makes it inconvenient foi tourists to land on th* little bit of occa eionally green land that surrounds iSs t;ieai heart of perpetual ice. Permission must be. had from old conservative Mother Den mark. Denmark is, indeed, very carefa and conservative ir the management ci Greenland aftUirs.' The wade there i; monopolised by the State, and only Go vernment vessels are welcome*" to Cireen land waters. This, says Denmark, is U protect the Greenlander from anscrupulou: merchants. And to make sure of th< people's welfare the State fixet both th< price they shall pay for the food md th< price they shall sell at. Tha trade be tween Greenland and the mother country is, as a rule, carried on by nine vessel! belonging to the Greenland Company, undei Government direction.