MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 3511, 28 June 1921, Page 45

MULTUM IN PARVO.

Watercress and parsnips are good bloodpurifiers. Face-powder cost American women £10,000,OCX) last year. Seventy-five per cent, of the nickel of the world comes from Canadian mines. Mahogany trees do not reach their full height till they are about 200 years old. Rat-hunting, which combines business with pleasure, is suggested as a fashionable sport. —As a result of more open-air sports British women are developing larger waists and flatter chests. —ln the West of England and the Lake District hist January was one of the wettest within human memory. German dyes produced last year equalled 145,C00 tons, the largest quantity ever manufactured in one year. —ln early days a bandmaster beat time with his foot. Not till 1820 was the baton hi st inti oduced. England was. tlie first country to take any measures foi- the prevention or punishn ent of cruelty to animals. T he mortality cf infants under one year of age for IS2O in England was only 80 per ICOO births This is a record. Rapier machc wheels are to he fitted to me trains on the Paris Underground Pail ivay. to make them more nearly noiseless. The natural way of walking is witii the toes pointing straight ahead and not turned outwards. An iron foclrail in an American restaurant was used by the proprietor—recently deceased—as a hiding-place for his savings. Specimens of the smallest pike in the w orld, measuring scarcely 2in in length, have leached London from Singapore. ‘ A war memorial, containing the names of 5c5 Jews, will be erected at the headquarters of the Jewish Lads’ Brigade, London. A third of the men who fell had belonged to the brigade. Ostrichskin shoes in smart tan or sober black, which it is said will outwear leather footwear and cost less, soon will be seen in Boston, U.S.A. The first consignment of ostricliskins was received recently from South Africa. T The Carnegie Trust of the United i bas made a grant of money, whic.i is to be devoted to ihe installation of a library system for the crews of British, merctiant vessels. A comparison of the deposits in the savings banks of New Zealand with other countries shows that while the deposits per bead , tabulation in Australia totalled , and in America £l2, they aggregated £e7 for every man, woman, and = ehild in New ZeaJand. or £IBO per household. . To-day the crosses on barrels of beer signify degrees of quality. In the old days they were put on by the monks as a sort of traue mark. They were crosses, and meant an oath sworn on the cross by the brewer that the barrel contained good liquor. A leading Flench scientist predicts that the next 14 years will be dry, the winters colder, and the summers hotter. He bases Ins prophecy on the corresponding number ot sun-spots at different periods. -At a West Chester (U.S.A.) county pemteiu lary recently inmates selected the colour of the cell walls. All shades of paint from boudoir pink to ashen grey, have been purchased. The idea is to study the effect of colours upon criminals. i T 7 latest innovation in Paris daneino--lial.s is a smai! red electric lamp to signal that a lady is Jisengaged and desires to dance. The method is said to have been a great suocesss, and the number of “wallflowers in the establishment where the lamp lias been introduced has been appreciably reduced. .. iie , Tel 7 latest science is tfcat of pedographv, whereby the character of the person can be told from the shape and size of Ins or her feet. Exhaustive tests have been carried out at the Kansas University in America. Kngland and W ales there <ire at . a , st 1,500,000 persons constantly on the sick list Over 13,000,000 weeks’ work are .lost m England on an average every year tnrough sickness, and on that account the nation loses every year the equivalent of the work of 260,000 persons of the industrial classes alone. The number of hairs in a violin how was formerly from 80 to ICO in Francebut now n is customary to have the hair ribbon broader, and this, therefore requires 175 to 250 single hairs. These must he at least 26in long. Tourte bestowed urea, care on the selection of bow-hair, preferring the 1-roach horsehair. A great deal of bow-nair conies from Russian horses -One of the strangest of all fishes that S eT Ti .f' aS ls j he sreat moonfish or opah, called in California “Mariposa.” It JS a broad, flat fish, almost as deep as long with flattened sides, small, toothless mouth, and short, tail. It lives in the open a weight of 4001 b. Its flesh i* neb tender, and toothsome, but no person is likely to taste it more than once, asthe fish seluom appears twice in the same place. i lie average time a normal healthy man or wom 4 „ can keep in the breath after a de.’p inspiration varies from 40 to SQ ; :, V Persons suffering from chronic bronchitis CP,mot hold their breath longer than 21 seconds; consumptives only 14 Secijmls the fact that one cannot hold Ones breath for long, however, doesn’t vy - :iv ,m Ply deficient lung power -W.av persons v.ho can inhale a large volume of air are quite incapable of boldtime * IC r< ’ at;l * or a Ilf, rmal period of . Another goldfield tins been discovered in Eastern Akim, which promises untold wealth. King Ofonatta, who was educated on European lines, after a year of research work, claims he has discovered that gravel deposits which have been worked for gold for centuries lie over a layer 0 f c j., v beneath which is more gravel than that of ♦he top layer. I nder his direction an area exceeding an acre has been excavated. The King states that he is satisfied that the ""lieations point to the existence of htt-o goldfields. ° .An attempt to form n permanent collection of relies of the many thousands of Wiecl.- of Slims which have occurred around Lie coast of the British Isles and other parts during the pa-t 100 years is about, to he made. There mu-t ho many such tucked away -in the homes of retired sea can tainS’ for instance, and old residents in villages and fishing hamlets—which have quite interesting and perhaps historical memories attaching to them. If is proposed to have there relics tabulated with details giving the history of the vessel and the story of the respective disaster attached to each.