Brief Mention.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5056, 15 September 1894, Page 3

Brief Mention.

Buddhism ia represented by about a dozen newspapers. The best Chiaesa razor3 are made of old horeo shoes. There are 1930 breweries and 4791 dietillerics in the United States. j In Bouthern Kussia the camel ia being I much used in agriculture, and with great SUCCSBS. Of poople aged 30, 2 per cant are alwayß sick ; o£ those aged 75, 10 per cent are I always in bed. I Three factories that make the albumen paper mel in photography use over 3,000,000 e»gs every year. An elepbanl'd sense of smell ia bo delicate ! that it cati eceat a- human being at a distance of ono thousand yarde. j The Prince of Walea opens every letter addressed to him himself. The Queen's : are first read by Sir Henry Ponsonby. | Ife is pointed out that the word " betterment" .occurs in tho dialogue between | Christian and Goodwill ia " Pilgrim's Progreeß." There are many horses that have never | been seen to lie down in their lives. Thoir I rest is not complete, however, and the ! joints and Binews are liable to stiffen early. Burglary doepn't pay in these days. Tnere were over 2000 burglary and housebreaking cases in London' in 1691, and the average amount secured by the burglar WBS less than £1 in value. | Egyptologists have found unmistakable | evidence of wire communication between some of the templ9B of the earlier Egyptian | dynasties, but whether these served a telegraphic, telephonic, or other purpose is not etatad. ■ An Oxford library has a manuscript containing the whole Bible. It ia written on a piece of parelimeat; so thin, and tbe writing is bo minute, that the whole, when rolled up, ia neatly packed away in tho shell of a common walnut. There ia now playing in Pam a Eussian horn band, each horn bsing capable of producing a eingle note only. So perfect is the training that the band produces the effect of one equipped with, ordinary inetruments, and evoa running ecales with the precision of a violin.