The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-07-10 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

FACTS. Jr  -------'-'''—""'''''---pref it much mere nutritious than mutton. , A good conduct convict. earns 10d. a. week while Only one woman in a hundred insures her life.. in penal serviimis‘. ;!,gitu,da fortune to eiglit the become Tito pigeon is found in every part !of the globe. 1 ban°rru lov! mat 7timb sold reins aro in circulation twits, as long 10 , Silt:. British subjects have incomes of Over copper OW. 1 £50,000 per annam. only 71 Peon'. in this country have salaries of . Ireland has fewer suicides in proportion to popu. , over i 15.000 a year. lation than any other country in the world. Brussels posseases a clock which is wound up . In proportion to population there are fewer by the wind, and never by human hand. Jones in Ireland than in any ether European ovum Some of our largest ocean steamers can be con- : try. vetted into armed cruisers in thirty hours. , The NW al eSt bird is the kcetrel, or British spar' The Royal Arsenal at Woolwich employs about row-hawk. It has been known to achieve a stood 1000 workmen, and has 40 miles of internal rail- , of 150 miles an now.. say, I The nowt expensive Parliament in Eu.ope is Barrow has a record which no other public 1 that of France. The two chambers cost the nashool can boast, in that it has produced live i lion £300,000 annually. Spain spends £120,000 Pfllllo Ministers due tug last century. on her representation, Italy £130,000. Britain t4leepleseteo may be cured lay the administration I £150,00°. ol from a half pint to a pint of warm liquid food ' A good railway engine will travel about —say soup or milk—just before retiring. i 1,000,000 miles before it wears out. With ordin. The population of the world averages 109 WOllleil ary service it ought to last, twelve yeara to every 100 men. Eight ninths of the sudden The scarcity of ivory has set inventive wits at &Ali., are those of make. I work. and now hollow balls of cost steel are found The charge for a special train is sewn shillings I to be a satisfactory substitute for ivory billiard per mile run, and each passenger has to take an I built ordinary ticket. No special train is run under a i The average Englishman drinks each year 2 minimum charge of £5. ! bottles of wine. 178 of beer, and 6of spirits. A Thomas Guy, the founder of the hospital that , Frenchman consumes 141 of wine. 30 of beer, and hears his name in London, was a bookseller in , 11 of spirits. leaden. He amassed a fortune of nearly half a I The Japatie,s, begin building their houses at the million. chiefly by the sale of Bibles, and died I top. The roof is first built and elevated on a in rm. !skeleton frame. Then it affords shelter to the Neatly every English flagship carries eight, and ! workmen from storms. every cruiser four, fully-qualified divers, whose I Many mild 1)11,6 indicate by a change of the dutv it is to repair any damage sustained by the tone of their nearnect of rain. The blackbird, ~,,,,...1 below the water-line, clearing the propellers, for instance. rause voice is usually soft, utters a at)' recovering the anchors. shrill cry when a storm is impending. One of ties largest. tailor's shops in the world is The public in Greenwich Park will often make at Pimlico, where there are always in stock au& the whole ground vibrate to such an extent as to eient goods to clothe 85,000 men at least. This is , interrupt for beam observations at the observathe Army Clothing Department front which come !tory, which depend on the motionlessness of a the uniforms of the British tank and file. ! tray of mercury. An orange tree will bear fruit until it is 150 Live bees are sometimes shipped on ice so as to years old, and then' are recorded 1112'411110,e of keep them dormant during the journey. This is orange trees bearing fruit when 500 years old. In I particularly the Comas with bumblebees which have Malta and Naples 15,000 oranges have been picked I been taken to New Zealand, where they aro useful from a single tree, and one in the Sandwich Islands , in fertilising the red clover that has been intros:is estimated to bear 20,000. In two instance. in 1 ducted into the Colony.-- THE PENNY PICSouthern Europe 38.000 were picked from one tree. , TORIAL: _____.....L....... --- - - - ----- --,