Facts and Figures.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3107, 2 August 1894, Page 2

Facts and Figures.

Telephones are now being introduced on board foreign men-of-war. Tho normal consumption of water io Manchester is about 21,009,000 galloni por day.

It is computed fiat over £2OO a doy is given away in St. Louis in small sumo to applicants for charity. From Russia the United Kingdom had nearly seventy five million eggs last year. To fre are 931,000 horses iu Great Britain solely for agriculture. The wedding ring is worn on the left hand because, in symbolism, the right hand is authority, Iho left obedience. Postal cards were first issued on May 1, 1873. The first year’s sales were 91,079,000, while last y«;ar over five hundred millions were sold. Tho income of charitable establishment* in most countries of Europe has fallen off since 1876, but no reason for tho decline ie known. Iu twolve months no fewer than 21,389 persons died in India from snake bite, and over half a million of snakes were destroyed during that period. We hero have but a small conception of the terrible nature of tbo cholera which baa uffliotod Japau. Up to Ootobor 2nd, 33,863 persons were attacked, of whom 22,560 died. The * ornamental China cap out of which Napoleon drank his last drink at St. Holcna ’ was put up at auction at the Hotel Druot in Paris ruoeotly and diecovered, by an examination of the mannfaoturer’s mark, to have been made io 1840.

A most reinarkublo boom of Ruesieo manufacturing in general is reported. Factories, especially of machinory and railway supplies, are said to have orden for four or five years ahead, and to be working extra time. This is largely ascribed to the opening of markets io Asia