INTERESTING GLEANINGS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 18, 7 March 1913, Page 3

INTERESTING GLEANINGS.

From Russia the United Kingdom had Marly seventy-five mil Lon eggs last year There are* 931,000 norses kept in Gieat Britain solely for agriculture. Telephones are now being 'introduced on board foreign mcn-of-war. Crime is rarer in Finland than anywhere else in Eqrope, except in Iceland. The normal consumption of water in Manchester is about 21,000,000 gallons per : day. - Some New York mothers have organised a school at which their children are taught good manners. An American correspondent informs u> ,that Wabash, Indiana, has a midget—" Ml. Sarah Store’s girl babe”—six inches in height and weighing a pound and a half. The Hong Kong Legislature has passed :j law against stowaways. Their object is '( prevent the surreptitious emigration it Chinese to Australia. Not less than 95,474 paupers were re lieved in the metropolis in the second weoi: of December, 36,073 outdoor, and 59,401 indoor. The electric light is being very slowly introduced in Vienna. In Berlin it is to ixfound in almost every shop in the principal street*. The total estimate of expenditure for the Congo Free State for 1891 is 4,555,001. francs, of which one-half is for the main tenance of an armed force. Bonnets are growing visibly less ir, Palis, and broad brimmed hats are not much worn by married women, though stilt the fashionable headgear for girls. At Swaffham, in Norfolk, a miller named Goddard and his wife were found suffocated in bed. They had slept with a coke fire in their bedroom. The German Socialist leaders are about to undertake a forward movement in the rural districts of the Empire. They declare that German peasants are serfs merely. We here have but a small conception of the terrible nature of the cholera which has afflicted Japan. Up to October ,2nd, 33,863 persons were attacked, of whom 22,560 died The frosty weather at Home told heavily on the accident assurance companies. One company, whose headquarters are in Loir ion, received intimation of no fewer than 226 cases of broken legs within seven days. It is calculated that the yearly production of paper, in the world is 3,000,000,0001bs weight, and, according to an estimate which has been made, this emanates from 2,891 mills.

Emperor William cats four meals a day --a substantial breakfast of meat, eggs, Ac., at 7.30 ; second breakfast at noon, consisting of soup, meat, and vegetables; a regular dinner at six o'clock, and a light suppei about 9.30. Neither 'the Emperor of Russia, as Grand Duke ol Finland, nor the Senate (a permanent body, which acts as a kind of executive), can impose new taxes on the Fins without the consent of the Diet, which Is chary of granting m’oney. The United States Seoietary of Agriculture has prohibited the importation in cctlain ports of cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, as well as swine from Canada. The new regulations are desired to secure, if possible, a removal of restrictions abroad, especially in England. Commander Barker, of the United States Navy, asserts the principal naval Powers will own in 1894 the following armoured ships; Great Britain, 76 heavy armoured ships, 90 light armoured ships ; France, 48 heavy, 14 light; Germany, 40 heavy, 10 light; Italy, 19 heavy, 17 light; Russia, 27 heavy, 3 light

During their adventurous journey the pic deers of the East Africa Company came across a cream of tartar tree 97 feel in circumference. If the interior were taken out, it is said, leaving bark sufficient on either side to keep the tree standing, three waggon* could pass abreast through the shell. , Notwithstanding the many changes 00 ■he island of Heligoland, there is ne interference with a law, passed in 1&66, enacting that no youthful person under 16 years of age shall be allowed to visit a public-house or dancing-room, or be permitted to enter a j theatre.

The New York belle has a new craze. She has adopted the fashion of wearing a chain nacele., formed of links of great thickness, •,s a sign that she is betrothed. Gold is no 'onger the current style, silver and iron being he metal in high favour. The ingenuity of he leading jewellers is taxed to the utmos! ,o produce new designs. The new " palace chicken car” is a recem uvention by means of which live poultry ire conveyed in comfort and safety withom he necessary deterioration resulting from ising cramped together in a crate and left for a day or two more without food o» water. The first of these was recently mad* ■ n Chicago. An exciting scene was witnessed at Hale hank railway station, near Liverpool. A arge lioness was observed making its way ’.long the platform, and a cry being raised here was a general stampede from tin /•remises. The stationmaster then locked 'he doors, and sent for two farmers with iheir guns. They wounded the animal, which was afterwards killed by a blow on :he head with a hammer. It Is believed the ioness had escaped from a travelling menagerie. The stupendous undertaking of throwing i bridge across the English Channel has 14 am received the attention of the French uithorities. Having ascertained by sound ng and dredging that the sea bottom is inn, the surveyors conclude that ninetytwo piers instead of one hundred and twelve would be sufficient. They have also found that considerable saving could be made in yher directions, But intimation has been iven that the British Government, as liiher.o, will oppose the scheme, and while this is the’case there is little chance of the proposal being carried out. Loan Derby, speaking on behalf of shelering homes and child emigration, at Liver- ■ mol, warned his audience not to let the ;ood work now being done languish beause some new and sensational plan seized ,n the popular imagination. England must ie an emigrating country. We could not mploy 40,000 more beings every year, •'.migration was a palliative.. To dispose in ome way of the growing swarms of the joorest class was a question -of public .afety. Colonists might object to swarms if adult emigrants, but none objected to uvenile emigrants, who could readily adapt hemselves to new conditions of life. Notwithstanding the premium per head Tiered by, the Government for the destrucion of wolves, there still exist many memers of the wild family in France, official statistics showing that during the last year 115 were killed at a cost to the State of / ’ 130, the number being a dozen more than .11 the preceding twelve months. The rewards given for their slaughter vary from 30s. for a young wolf, to for one which has attacked or killed a human being. Formerly, the hunting of wolves was under the supervision of an officer of state, called the Grand Louvetier de France," but this post was abolished at the Revolution, and the .•xtirpation of these pests, or at least the oayment of the sums per head for their desa uction, is now entrusted to the department V. Woods and '