PIECES OF INFORMATION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 31 January 1899, Page 1

PIECES OF INFORMATION.

Tbo Kiel Canal ia lighted over its sixty two miles by electricity, and is tlio longest distance in the world lighted continuously in that way. Thero aro 5000 poles. / Herr Frederick Alfred Krupp is tho largest employer of labour in tho world. On the pay rolls of the great Krupp establishment are more than 25,000 men. It Denmark it is the law that all dtunkcu person? shall be taken to their homes iv carriages provided at the expenso of the publican who sold them tho last glass. King Humbert of Italy \ 5 „ vegetarian. He lives almost entirely on bread, vegetables and fruits He is forbidden to drink coffee, and hie only beverago is a little wtoe and plenty of water. The English Horticultural College reports hat several applications have been received for women head gardeners, and one for a tarS. M „S " f n!iro char & 9 of conservatories and greenhouses. The Golcorjda Mines are now exhausted. At onetime 60,000 men were employed in them When the Sultan Mahmoud, who reigned 1177-1206, died, ho left iv his froSiS? 00 P ° UDd3 Wdsht ° l "»» iinnm^V, 1 En R laKd employs about 1100 me j, and has a salary list, including pensions, of about £800,000 per annum. The governors and directors of tho Bank m.\- ° 6 _ wecn 'hem £14.000 per annum. Of this the governors receive £1000 each, and the directors £500 oach. In Riam oach year is named after an animal, aud peoplo bom in certain years are forbidden to intermarry. Thus, an elephant baby cannot marry a tiger, nor a Hon a lamb; and tbore are heavy penalties for lying about one s age. ° A woman has been tho keeper of tbe i Santa-Barbara (Cal.) lighthouse for thirtyM° .*?£■ t Daaaß that P erio(l sheh « s oinnlKd the tower and attended to the light herself every night, with the exception of three weeks twenty years ago. The most curiously decorated graves in the world aro tho negro graves in Soulk - u er i 0a, -,t. S^ m 9, of the3o mounds aro garnished with tho bottles of medicine nisei by ' the departed iv their final illness, and tho duration of the malady is easily guessed by the number of bottles. Sir Arthur Sullivan is an unusually quick composer. He began tbe overture io loianthe ■ at nine o'clock one evening and had n finished by seven tho next morning. Tho magnificent epilogue to tho '• Golden legend ' was composed and scored in twenty-four hours. mnnnSfAft P^S 0 ' Kcxico - »» «U»i_On mountain 640 ft. high, and the iron is from 60 to ,0 par cent pure. The metallic mass spreads m all directions for a radius of three or four miles Tho entire deposit i 9 9 ufflcient to supply all the iron required in tho world for 1000 yeors. The horse has a greater variety of gails than any other quadruped. Besides the walk, trot, gallop, an d amblo, pica or rack, trot with tho hind ; others move with legs separately in auceession ; and others execute many artificial movements, tho result of education. A Bussian officer hns been makiug esperiments, with veiy successful resultsf in the mo of falcons instead of pigeons as carriers. It seems that tbey oan fly very much faster A pigeon covers ten or twelve leagues in an hour, whereas a falcon can do fifteen. It can also carry with ease a fairly heavy weight, wbilo a pigeon can ody just manage a letter. Above all, there is not the. uangfr thafc a falcon may ba caugbt by some bird of w, e l ?u xl road ' or even ahot > f ° r i* flies co