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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6489, 18 May 1899, Page 2

r 'ME "LYTTBLTOW TIMES." I iiAS A liAKGEB OIBCUIvAKON THAU i ■ ANY C-THER MORNING NJEWSPAPEE » IN NSW ZEALAND. i'i PKI€E ONE P3SNIO". _ !' ISUBSCRIPTION.— In t advamcej 6s 6a pei '' ' quarter, 26s per annum. Booked, 80s pa annum* When papers are poßted or thrown J oS 1 trains' i4y raiWay guardet. 13s pss ammm -, additianal. j • •TELEPHONE— ' $ Editorial and' Newa- . . - Xoi, Of* |:j. Susraesa and' Advertising . . No. 9Q : V LONDON OFSTiCE— 2 and 3, Irrperial Bsild- ; '■ ■ ingsj, Ludgate Circws. WELLINGTON 05'FICE— CusSom Eobs« QunSCi J. Eott, Agezri. "•TKB-STAE." The roost wid-Bly-circTilated Evening Tftpci i;a'-Oant&3Bury. EATSS-.. FOR CASH ONLY. SITUATIONS;— AII notices referring- to ra*. plovmant, not exessding 14 words, 6d; and foi ev&ryr.addftianal 54("wordi3>. ®3L Wantedo, To Let, For Sale, Lost aatlFowsd, i eta.- — 14- wards 6d, and 6d iov every add l iocal 14 words. Births, Marriages and CeaSis. — 2a Sdi Quotations given for Contract Spac«a- an3 au oticr^-DlasßS*. of' AilVortißiEg-. CrRGULATIOK ' TlHi LSTTEELTON TIMES/' THE CERTIFIED NUMBER PRENTED ! AND CIRCULATED DURING THE WEES endiugry M&3ST ffij. AYERASES; -| f\ "pGTQ COPIES PEB- DA3^. '"THE STAR/' THE NUMBER PRINTED AND PU& LISHED.; oEi S&SUEOAY, MAY la WAS OVER. 5200l THE COMBINED ISSUES OFTHE LYTTELTON TIHES A2TO STAB on tad- ABOTE ©ATE TOTAL -| jT ty-t Q co.piss. • TWICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers »re reminded that the Satarday Edition of the -'STAR" commands a very WIDE CIRCULATION, reaching all i- lasses, anfi that Orders for Advertisements should, reach the Office not later than two o'clock* .j. ■• THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1895. NOTES AND NOTIONS. "A rich landed proprietor of Prussia. has conceived the idea of using camels instead of horses in Avorking his land. The experiment of attaching camels to ploughs has,' it is stated, exceeded all expectations. A camel does the work of two and sometimes tlii-we horses, and its keep costs Jess^than that of a single horse. Other German agriculturists are' to follow suit, especially since it has been stated that the camels, do not suffer from the change of climate. : "According to M. I. Holl Sch6oling, of says "Cosmos," "there is an old rule for finding the length of. .a -man's •life if the present age lies between twelve land eighty-six years. This is the rule: — [Subtract the present age from eighty-six, jand divide the remainder by two ; the [result will give the number of years-you have yet to live. This old rule .was disicovered by the mathematician De Moivre, i who emigrated to England from France in [1865 and became a- member of the Royal .Society. The curves given by M.- Schoolling are interesting to examine. A' first dia- • gram shows the chance that every man has iof living one year longer than his, present 1 age. A~t birth, his chance is 15 to 1 ; at Ifivc years, 119 to 1; at ten, 512 "t0 l'j-at 1 i fifteen, 347 to 1; at twenty, 207; at I , twenty-five, 156; at thirty, 120"; -at thii*yfive, 97; at forty, 78, etc. M.' Schooling tifiirms from his calculations chat of WOO" individuals of sixty years 599 I ' will live to be seventy, 120- to eighty, aqd ' 17" ro? be; , ninety; while ' oi 100 nonagenarians, four will reach their hundredth year; We may add that for nh»n of sixty-iire, the average expectation of: life is tea and' one-th'ii'd years." ' , • i "According- to the 'Rfiriera Dtuily-,'.' tilefollowing is' the real storjr of the recent attack by French sailors upon British" tars-. A boat iras sent ashore, at' Wifefranche from the Rtoyal' yacsSt: Os'florfte for letters-. While «ne man waited' in .charge of* the boat tlfe others went into a ' cafp/ full' of French sailors, vrho, ilomedi- . ately th* British sai&rs appeArcd; attacked them without any. warning. Not vrfsMng to britrer the .Royal --yacht into disgrace, the British tars re treated and' madfe for the ' boat. Only one feached jf, and th® other twoi j«mped ini*. the ijwa,ter, the French Kniibr's hurling a volley <5£ stones a»fber them. ■■ ' Next day the captain (SSr.. ArcMbald Milne) ■■ of" the Venus^ the Queen's gnar'dship, ns .stTßior officer, -saw the chi# of staff of the I French squadron and told"-hiin-~as a sailor , Jicnn— bhafc tMs sort of think must bp. stop- . j pod. Tl'-p- «^ ief o ? -Ai\niraf l 'Fowrnier's stofl ', , a'iolo<?iscd and said how soi^y he was *nd ;'t'i?t. )w voxild find out the culprits. Sir ' Arohib.iTft replied that he had no tfesii-c r to inmfsh anyone, • only such a thins? must 7 uoL ocsiu" aeain. liord Salisbury, bernrin.'! nf tho "matter, sent for the cantain of tl»€ - y^tts. '.vrho --nld him -the whoU* . story. ' r hf- prpmiftT- f"Hv approved of the enntoir's a"ctfoni''and it is imderstond t-ha* the exnhnation »as P^ven satisfaction Jn the highest-quarters. J \ few ye ars a ?° Galvaston,- Texas, had * an* mienvJabla name by reason of the numerous 'fires, occurring among the cargoes oi u cotton ships wliich load there. From a report by Mr Consul Nigwt, just kaud,