MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 65

MULTUM IN PARVO.

i — Xondon has over 70 hospitals. — The British iluseum. was founded in )?53. ' — Cattle- raising is the chief industry of Vbyseinia. "ci- London has 15 medical scfcsok. — England 1 has 50 county coM&dfe. — A nainoi cannot legally make a will. .— A modern 12in gun coats about £10,000. ,— London's taxi cabs now number nearly $500. . Ck- The first vessel for the Prussian, fleet yis built in 1842. '~- There are 175 million cells In the lungs. . ,Sj? Conscripts in France have to eerve for | Ira years. JM-ia&t year 74,500 families migrated from Russia to Siberia-. Prussia a chilct has id Be sen£ to ijcnool at the age of six. ;ii~ London's docks have a- capital .'alue oi i"Bout £24,000,000. J*~.On a battleship tn'e ttay's -work begins Jre + b'clook in the morning. -of England's M.P.'s represents on §a average 66,975 persons. r— There are 16 cables across the North Atlantic Ocean. "J" — A noiseless typewriter has been invented by an Austrian. — A fly bacteriologically examined has Keen found to carry 100,000 bacteria. — There are seven large- Jewish, elementary schools in London. 11 — Majrriage banns not taken up in three months become useless. — A person under 21 cannot be made a bankrupt even though engaged :n trade. — There are over 10,500 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. — The tonnage of the Mauretania is 2L938 ; that of the Lusitania 31,550. — Kubelik received his first music lesson* from his father, a market gardener. — The hotel industry, it is ■ estimated, brings into Switzerland about £8,000,00 C •very year. * — Ticks are perceptible in the Mediterranean, but not in the Black Sea, anc barely so in the Baltic. — In the American navy officers are pai<3 30 to 70 per cent, better than in th« British. —In Japan dancing plays a very impor tast pert in the education of boys anc girls. — At Kcichikawa the Japanese Govern' zoeot arsenal turns out 200 rifles anc 200,000 cartridges a day. — Roumania's population is only six and a-half millions, yet it could place 650,00( men in th-» field if war came. — The principal agricultural society it — Asbestos was not used to any considerible extent fcr commercial purposes until the middle of the nineteenth century. — During 1907, 772 persons were rewarded by the {loyal Humane Society for saving 814 Jives and attempts to save 71 others. — The English Attorney-general, as such it paid £7-)00 a year and fees; the Solici tor-general £6000 and fees. — The Amir of Afghanistan has a subsidj of £120,000 a year from the British Indian Government. — Mrs Margaret Ogilvie, of Sizewel' House, near Leistori!, iSfuffolk, widow of Mi Alexander Ogilvie, in her will l&H the tramway belonging to her in Asuncion, Para gnay, South America, and her estate ai ij&realdive. Argyllshire, Scotland, to be sold, the proceeds to bo devoted to charitabk purposes. The total estate is £459,019 gross, with net personalty £359,923. — A military coat has been devised whicli hut bs utilised for a variety of purposes msd if jt can be used as its inventor claims, vfr should be a moet invaluable article or «. campaign. Primarily an overcoat, foui joined together make an excellent tent foi ■p men ; or it can be used either as 8 Kffetcher, hammock, or ground sheet. II does not perhaps make an ideal coat, but t&ere i.3 no 'doubt as to its value as a sec tion of a t-2-nt, and in the three other capacities it should be distinctly useful in an emergency. — Here aTe some items culled from a large Atlantic liner company's food bill foi one year. Meat : Fresh beef, pork, veal mutton, and lamb, over 10,6C0,0001b. Poul try and (fame: Ducks, fowls, turkeys, etc., more than 1,000,0001b. Fish, aboul 1,060,0001b. Beverages: Champagne, claret, minerals, etc., 800,000 odd bottles, besides 500,000 gal of lager beer. The amount of 3>read consum«d was. 3,900,0G011>- Potatoes stand at 20,000,0001b, • hotter at 1,200,0001b. and ice at 24.000,3001b. Cigarettes and cigars were smoked up to the tune of 2,327,225. Taking just this last item, *nd allowing fchres cig»rs and seven cigarettes as a daily dos» per head, the number of smokes consumed in one single year on these liners would keep 10 men in tobacco everj day of their existence for a period of about 70 years. — The toilet-water industry in Cologne was established in the beginning of the seventeenth century. At that time the city numbered about 50.000 inhabitants, while *h© present population is 450,000. The inventors of toilet-water — eau-de-Cologne — were Paul Feminis and Maria Clementine. • Catholic nun. They began on a small ecaie, employing a few persons, whom they d»d not initiate into the secrets of the whole process, the last and most important mixtures being made b> the inventors themselves. Paul Feminis left the secret with the Farina family, while the nun bequeathed the sec-rot to one Peter Schaben, who had been her assistant for many sears. Both families still carry on the busin<>&s. and are the leading manufacturers. Thor^ are about 30 manufacturers of eau-do Cologne in the city, fire of them being of importance. — The upper-class Mexican is often a well•educated and well-informed man of the world, and in appearance and habit differe little from the EuTopean. His wealth has ■permitted him to be educated in the best B^tabliohmonts his country affords, or often abroad, in France. England, and in a les* degree, the United States, and to spend years in Europe and live a life of ease, preferably an Paris, that tro© Mecca of the Spanish-American people. The Mexican gentleman is generally courteous and punctilious, and gives much attention to dress and 1 matters of ceremony, after the general manner of the Spanish-American, and the rTOck-ccat and <=J4k hat form his indispensable exterior wh^net-j.): possible. His oourteey pervades his bi"=ir!«t reJations generally, as well as fofial affair*. Ajw£, this pleasing quality porir"vte<« the whole social resrirn", fnvn IV h.tjlie^t official or wealthy citiz-n ci'.un to t! l 3 poorest peon ©r to the Indian labou;-er.