DID YOU KNOW

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 33, 15 December 1944, Page 6

DID YOU KNOW

That tlie upas tree of the Malay and Philippine islands produces that mostly deadly ol' poisons known as .strychnine. The nam;' is from a Malay word meaning "poison." That tiie Doer war cost Great Britain ore million pounds per week, this being the same amount as the Russians spent oil the Russo-Japan-ese- war. The tire at. War cost (1 real Britain up to I'JIS. That Sir Walter Seoit v.-as given the title oi' "'Wizard oi live North"' ai'ter in- iuui published his Border Romances. 1 neideniaUy *he \v;n one of the hardest worked of all novelists. That the I.ondon Zcri Avhich was opened in the year 1827, cor.tains the mix'; varied collection of animals to be found anywhere, in the •world. That tiie word "monitor" is I'rom the Latin meaning "showing the way to others.." It is i'or this reason that school prefects are. known as mon'tors and also why shailowdraught warships are known by the . i i i.! • liil 1 !!:.'. That an ova'ion v."as not always what il is !n the day< when Rome wa< the greatest city in tlie world it was u ; ed to denote the reception of a minor vietorlou- geniiia jor \ Iclorioiis general received -a

That large birds .seldom attack men unless provoked. All tlie same man3 r travellers have had alar\ning experiences with condors which are found in the South American Andes and are the largest Hying birds in lliq world. That the familiar .round baskets are not used at Covent Garden fruit market nearly so much as they used to be. Nowadays shallow wooden boxes arc more popular.