MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 67

MULTUM IN PARVO.

-There are 7,904,465 voters in the United Kingdom. . , f pma lo _ In the State of California the lemaio vote outnumbers the male by over f 'ooo -Children at Dr Barnardo a Homes no* *"-T& Shards worn by Russian officers are made of papier-mache Venice has a cafe which has been open dav and night, for 150 I.years. _ -Eight millions sterling is given away in charity every year i n_ Lon^° 1 n - v ., nro . -Silkworms fed on different leases pro duce siiks of varied colours; thus a d»t of vine leaves produces a bright red, and lettuce an emerald green. vn „ TK 0 f -At the beginning of winter owners ot chestnut barrows in London can earn 15s a day, but at the end of the season then takings drop to Is or Is od. -Meerchaum means sea-foam and d* rives it, name from the fact that it is sometimes found floating in the Black Royal Mint is subject to the manSemenTand regulation of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer and 70 respectively, were opposed to the match. \ curious fashion, which is Paul to be spread p-V was lately introduced into a cemetery in Ohio-namely. carving or a an enlarged fac-s,mile of the ciiriviturp of the deceased. . S '^ d Ten thousand officials, whose salaries amount to £280.000 a year, "^g^™ 9 theft' £ Ssf Lisbi. Spain 5 The left hand of the sta ; ue ? lnt T he r Oil- s° n ha? be°on stolen The Convent at Uuvaes, nas /«--' Jn+rmsio hand was covered with jewels the intrinsic value of which is estimated at £BOOO. -A nortrait of your sweetheart on the point of your slipper is Fashion s latest suggestion to the smart young American woman. The picture should be fixed to the slipper below the buckle. This style n f crioS S Sc«mstances afine new .hod has been built at town g Feodorma, in ttussia. i"<- i„„i.„,„ erected it from the proceeds of a voluntas tax of Id per glass of vodka consumed which they imposed on themselves for a whole year. . m i, a , The human foot is becoming smaller. The masculine foot of 20 centuries ago was about 12in long. The average mans foot of to-dav is easilv fitted with a No. Bj> shoe, which is about in length _ The shell of a certain crab is used by the natives of the Ohiloe Islands as a barometer. In drv weather the shell is nearlv white. the approach of rain is heralded bv the appearance of small red spots on its surface, while in the rainy season it becomes completely red. _ Lukas Napv. of Szegedin, Austria, sold his skin to a foreign museum a long time ao-o for £32. the condition being that after his death and when the skin was removed the museum authorities should bury his body Ho has now died at the age of 85. On his death-bed he begged his relatives to get the contract broken. Some lakes are distinctly blue; others present various shades of green, so that they are sometimes hardly distinguishable from their level, grass-covered banks; while a few are almost black. The Like of Geneva is azure-hued: the Lake of Constance and the Lake of Lucerne are preen; the colour of the Mediterranean has been called mdigo; the Lake of Bricnz is greenish yellow, while the neighbouring- Lake Thun is blue. The letters patent granted for the dignity of a baron cost £l5O, and for that of a baronet £IOO, payable to the Board of Inland Revenue. Other expenses to be incurred by the newly-honoured include new crests or new ooats-of-arms. while some wish to have their "genealogical trees" properly made out. Consequently the Heralds' College is busy after the issue of a list of honours, and the total expenses of a baron are not far short of £4OO, and those of a baronet exceed £2OO. The Austrian Courts have affirmed the principle, first established in the United States, that a type-written will is good at law. Tn the American case £3.000.000 was conveyed by 12 lines of type-writing. Probably the strangest will-making was that of an old lady stricken dumb. Her lawyer wrote on a number of cards the names of her relatives, friends, and servants, and on another set of cards the items of her property. Then the old lady shuffled the cards to her own liking, and as arranged by her they were duly "proved." Thirty bachelor girls in Xew "Fork formed themselves into a. Self-government Girls' Club. Every member has made a solemn promise neither to marry nor to become engaged fo r one year. The club badge is a pin in the form of a lateh-kov. It signifies, they say, that the members do not require male escorts in pettinp to and from their homes at night. The following fines have been fixed for failure to keep the club rules:—Engagement, 10s; marnape. £1; elopement, £2. But the men, the club rules declare, must pay the fines. big-game hunters in the world. First they kill deer, then tigers, and after that they climb into the hills after the mountain sheep, which are the most difficult of all their kind to follow and kill. But there is one ambition beyond the mountain sheep. That is the snow leopard. This beautiful creature, white as the snows it lives among, Is rarely found below a height of 11.000 ft, and is even there extremely rare. It is both wild and savage, and the natives have a superstitious fear of its white coat and deep-green eyes. The man who succeeds in killing a snow leopard stops into the very first rank of big-game hunters.