MISCELLANEOUS.
No fever than six hundred and tea silos have buen built in Great Britain ©f which five hundred and fourteen are to be found in England, sixty in Scotland, and thirty-six in Wales. Of the English countries, Norfolk heads the list with fifty nine sil*& In Scotland, Argyll Ims twelve, and is followed by Lanark and Rniafrew, which comities have each half that number. The largest silo noted in th«; returns is in the county of Argyll. The completion of the MackayBen'nett'cablß makes the total length of girbmarine cables, according, to The Electrician, about 68,000 miles. Each cable contain* an average o£ 40 strands •f wife,. ?o that altogether there are over 2,500,000 miles of wire used in their, construction, «r ten times th« distance from the earth to the moon. Practically, all this has been laid with in the last twenty-five years; the greater part within a decade. It appears from an account of Vie uamst fcocicty now pablisbtug in Pa- v
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Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1532, 8 April 1885, Page 3
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164MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1532, 8 April 1885, Page 3
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