BREVITIES.

Thames Star, Volume XXV, Issue 4723, 1 May 1894, Page 2

BREVITIES.

The man who sits down on the road to success and waits for a free ride will get Music teachers in Hamburg ar« ptid lOd an hoar. A blacksmith in Jerusalem cau make 8s per week. Sboo-girls in Frante receive an average of £20 a year. A camel owner and his beast in Palestine are worth 4s a d.ay. In Mexico seamstresses are paid li 6d ''■ a day ; weavers 2s. i An eminent statistician estimate! that during the course of an ordinary life the average man will eat seven raur-hor«e waggons loads more food than is good tor mm. . ■ Italy gires to the world outside her bo/<k r9 2,500,000,000 oranges; Spain, ;' PortuM mowmol Para B u»y, 60,000,000 ; Florida, nearly at many as Paraguay. '■■■*. The people of Europe last y*ar partly satisfied their appetites with 514,000,003 pounds of American bacon, 84,000,000 i pounds of American hams, and 81,000,000 pounds of American pork. The Danes are the champion cheese eaters, devouring 22 pounds annually to each inhabitant. The world's lettuce is lubricated for consumption with 140,000,000 gallons of genmne or fictitious olive oil. France and Spain produce 93,000 tons of sordines every year, whwh are mostly, consumed by the English and the Ameneaos. The world's oyster fisheries produce annually 4,439,000,000 oysters, ooe-half being consumed within three-days after tbey are taken.