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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7507, 15 September 1902, Page 3

Three-tenths of the earnings of a Belgian convict are given to -him on. the expiration of 'his term of imprisonment. Some of them thus saye more money in gaol than they 'have ever saved' before. Japan's first statue in memory of a woman was unveiled recently at obijoNawate, near Kioto. . The amount of energy expended in coughing is very considerable; indeed^ one of the patient statisticians for which, Germany is renowned has calculated that a patient who coughs once every quarter of an ihour for ten hours expends energy equivalent to 250 units of heat, which may be translated! as equivalent to the nourishment contained in three eggs or two glasses of milk. In normal respiration the air is expelled from the chest at the rate of four feet per second, whereas in violent coughing it may attain a velocity of 300 feet. " I am glad they moved 1 away," remarked the good housewife, speaking of a family of borrowing neighbours who had just left the neighbourhood. "I was willing to lend them a loaf of bread occasionally, or

ball a -dozen eggs, or the •wash-board, or the lemon-squeezer, but when they got down to sending the little girl over to borrow pennies to give the organ-grinder, I began to think it wag nearly time to draw the line. And to cap the climax, one day they actually asked me, to come over and take care of the baby while they went out to do i3ie shopping !" Satasfaotoiiy experiments with oil fuel for fire engines have been made by the London County Council-