MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4869, 29 June 1901, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

Three thousand five hundred people ire employed at the London Central Felegraph Office. A woman who is in good health ab the ige of forty-five is likely to outlive a man oi the same age. The entire collection of coins and nedala in the British Museum consists of nearly 250,000 specimens. New Zealand has twenty-two esfcabishments for freezing meat for European markets. They oan handle 4,000,000 ibeepa year. The town of Westhofen, in Germany, it ill enforces an old ordinance which forDids any one walking in the street with a lighted cigar. So rapid has been the change in the English language that to-day our lan »uage bears little resemblance to the English of a thousand years ago. Scientists are recommending the electric light bath. It is free from the exhausting effects of Turkish baths,- and Is soothing to sore muscles and joints. In the Tyrol, toada are believed to be slnnera undergoing peuango fur deeds done in human form, and they are, therefore, regarded with pity and sympathy by all good Christians. During the pontificate of Leo XIII, 124 cardinals have died. As the full college of cardinals contains only Boventy members and is never up to the full strength, this means thai; it has been entirely renewed twice pi nee Leo XI LI. came to the Papal throne. There is no medical school in South Africa. Peter the Great exhibited wonderful miliary genius before he whs sixteen. Every year about 280,000 conscripts are added to the Russian Army. The finest shops in a Chinese city are those devoted to the sale of c ffios. The population of India increases at the rate of 3 000,000 annually. Land in England in 800 times as valuable now as it was 200 years ago. In the vicinity of Norfolk, Va., about 1,500 acres are devoted to the culture of the radish. It is estimated that in the United Kingdom 70,000 girls are employed in public-houses and drinking bars. In Paris the phonograph is now being brought into use as a means of identification of crimioalß by tb« voice, An examination made in Rochester, U.S.A., of the eyes of 1.000 school chil-= rt dren showed that 352 had defective vision. Tbe largest tree in the world lies broken and petrified at the end of a defile in North-western Nevada. It is said to be 666 ft. Wade's Teething Powders for babies are soothing, reduce fever, »nd prevent blotches. Price, Is. The bottom of the Pacific between Hawaii and California is said to be so lev el that a railway could be laid for 500 miles without grading anywhere. Wade's Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant ; children thrive after taking them. Prica, la. There are now published in Paris' 2,585 periodicals, nearly one hundred more than were issued at tbe corresponding date last year.