THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1182, 23 September 1885, Page 4

THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN

The forests of Scotland yield 10,000 deer annually. A bullet travels a milo in three and twotenths seconds. A horse has been known to live to the age of G2 years. The walls of several of the British war ships are constructed of paper. Sciential shold seventeen distinct theories as to the cause of earthquakes. Italy has 4,800,000 lemon trees, which produce 1,250,000,000 lemons annually. The courts of France, it ie said, consider it a libel to over-estimato a lady's age. There are in Paris 150 tradesmen who do nothing but deal in old postage Rtaraps. The number of letters posted in the world each year averages about

52,000,000,000. Making envelopes out of straw paper is a new and flourishing trade in Ireland. The pina tree, says an authority, serves aa a refuge for more than 400 Bpecies of

insects. Ar Belfast, Mo., a woman aged 70 hag sued a man aged 79 for breach of promise. The marriage fair, the institution of which datea from time immemorial, is still kept up in Brittany. Ten-Beventeentha of all the voters in the United States aFe said to be engaged

in farming pursuits. On a farm near Aurora, N.Y., was discovered recently a belt of aalt 65 feet thick. There are 136,000 fishermen in France, and about four fishermen out of every 1000 are drowned every year. Salmon ova are being sent from Ireland to Tasmania in immense cans that are kept cool by being packed in ice. A house an hour is built in London, and an average of ten people a day — excluding Sunday — are injured by cabs. A flagstaff at Mount Vernon, W.T., 346 feet high, is claimed to be the longest unspliced spar in the United States. The oldest apothecary shop in Berlin will celebrate in 1888 its 400 th anniversary. The Bhop was recently sold for 3,000,000d013. Temesvar, in Eastern Austria, a city of 33 000 people, ia said to be the only town in the world lighted exclusively by electricity.