Interesting, Isn’t It?

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 10, 11 July 1949, Page 4

Interesting, Isn’t It?

Capable of sorting 600 letters a minute, Magic Eye machines are being developed at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, London. XXX . Stamps issued during •, the reigns of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII cannot now be used for postage. x x x Test canning of bananas has been carried out in northern New South Wales, and success is claimed for the process. Shortage of labels has held up marketing of 5000 cans. XXX To show our appreciation or agreement' during a speech we say “Hear, hear!” This is a corruption of the cry “Hear him!” t which was used in Parliament during discussion to remind members that all speakers should be given a fair hearing. XXX A human being has about 35,000,000,000,000 red blood cells in the body and about 60,000,000,000,000 white blood cells. All blood, three or four quarts of it, passes from the heart, throughout the body and back to the heart in twenty or thirty seconds, that is about 3,000 to 4,000 times a day. s s' x The discovery of lithography took place when a Bavarian, Aloys Senefelder, wanting to set down his mother’s laundry list could find no paper in the house —it had all been used up in his recent experiments —wrote the list on a flat stone with a piece of greasy substance. Later he found by accident that by inking the surface he could get impressions on to a piece of paper.