MULIUM IN PARVO

Otago Witness, Issue 3713, 12 May 1925, Page 54

MULIUM IN PARVO

Palis has voted 1,000,000 francs for Uemousuuig us slums. —me pean ojsier begins to produce pearls wneu it is six or seven years oici. oixty-six pounus ot every ivai pounds ot worn spun in Lngianu comes from xiustraiasia. founder of the Nobel prizes, owed his vast lortune to tne discovery 01 dynamite. aim auuiority on physical culture says that uanemg is one 01 me most ncalUnui moues 01 luxmg exercise. —me doruau dining its course tails lisooit, and is unnawgauie, except lor very snort stretches. Ano ueauiy tsetse tiy is kept under in .hast iunca oy a cerium parasno unknown m west Ainca. lne dauy average of water supplied to .London uy me ivieuupoiitan Water ivoard is over gauons. Aiolding onesen in an erect attitude is moie uxely 10 bring pleasant thouguiA tnan is siOiicnmg deportment. lne average age to wmch a spider lives is lour but. some have oeen known to live lor Li years. - —At a spiurriage ceremony in India, the bride stands on a large piate lined witn mux ana rose-colourea sweetmoats. bumaira, in tne Last Indian Archipelago, has the greatest variety of animal aim vegeiaDie lne oi any prace in uie world. Four thousaud one hundred and fortyone dogs were killed lor lood in liermauy in tne urst quarter oi lyno, against in Oidi. ihe Fijian fossil coral is the best building stone in the world. Sott as cheese When urst cut, it hardens in tne air to tne consistency ot granite. La it mgs ot gout and pearls, with a total lengui ot l2in, are being worn in Laris. rvlud removed troin London s docks during a recent 12 months was estimated at l,ibi,is3y cubio yards. "JSo smoxing" notices are now displayed in ladies' waiting-rooms of London and North-Western railway stations. —lf spring-cleaning were replaced by autumn-oieaning, it would be a great help in the war against house hies. —By means ot a clever coae, the description of a suspected person’s fanger-prints can now be cabled accurately round tho world.

—“lf your child cries for anything ho sees, let him cry; it will develop his lungs,” says Deptford’s Medical Olticer of Health. “Diet is very important in cases of rheumatism,’' says a doctor. “Meat and starchy foods should be reduced, and more green vegetables and juicy fruits eaten.’’ The roar of a waterfall is produced almost entirely by the bursting of millions of air bubbles.

Aeroplanes which scatter electrified sand by means of a special apparatus are said to be abie to dispel fogs. Colds are our most expensive ailments. Reckoning each cold as costing ss, tho annual loss in Britain is estimated at L2t>,000,000.

Rents for business premises in the City of London are now about 25 per .cent, lower than in the boom period of 1919-20. few, whose parents have embraced Christianity. are really slaves,” says a woman missionary. English people consume an average of 91b of tea per head of the population every year. Blood flows through the bones of very young children almost as freely as through the veins.

The sale of foreign newspapers and books, it is stated, has been forbidden at {Serbian railway stations. Pupils of the London elementary schools have the use of a travelling library of 2,000,000 books.

Newspapers numbering 2190 are published in Great Britain and Ireland. Of these 421 appear in London. A beetle, thousands of years old, was found perfectly preserved among the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy. ■ —Taxes on titles, ranging from- £240 for a prince or princess to £BO for a baron or baroness, are suggested in France. —An elephant works from the age of 12 to the age of 80. It can haul 15 tons, lift half a. ton, and carry three tons on its back

Believed to be the oldest building in the world, a temple has been unearthed at Ur, in Mesopotamia, which dates back to 6000 b.o.

Wireless music and electric power for lighting and heating are given simultaneously from one lamp socket by a recent American invention.

Naphthalone worked into the garden soil in the proportion of loz to the square yard is a protection against certain destructive moth larvae.

Special perfumes, which are intended to the natural scents to flowers deprived of this attraction by early forcing, are being made in Austria.

Nearly 2,000,000 children now attend Church of England Sunday Schools. Choristers number 529,765, while there are more than 45,000 church bellringers. —No man can be cheated out of an honourable career in life unless he cheats himself. Believe in yourself and your capabilities, and you will not be cheated. —Freshwater pearl fishing used to be a thriv ; "nr industry at Conway, Wales. Elastic boot and slice laces, fitted with patent fasteners, enable the footwear to bo removed without untying. —Wrapped bread, which escapes handling and exposure to germs, is now sold by 42 of the largest bakeries in Lancashire. —The reading-room at the British Museum (London), with the supplemental presses, contains 3,000,000 books in 35 milos of shelves.

—No fewer, than 800,000 young men in Groat Britain have never been to work at all since they left school, because there are no openings for them.

—Recruits for the British Army during n recent 12 months numbered 44,950. During the same period over 51,000 men were rejected for physical reasons.

Four million cigarettes were distributed to sick and disabled ex-service men still in Ministry of Pensions hospitals and other institutions last year, by tho Order of St John of Jerusalem and the British Red Cross Society. A French scientist has predicted that in a few hundred years the world will be in the grip of another ice age, which will come about because the earth is using up its supply of carbonic acid gas faster than it is manufactured.