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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 169, 6 April 1918, Page 11

A boy's liuir grows one-half slower than a girl's In boys fcho average rate of growth is 3ft 3in in six years, being an average of .018 por day. Retween the twenty-first "and t'wentyfonrtli years a mail's liair grows quicker iliari at any other period. The Victoria Cross carries a pension, in case tile holder is necessitous, of ,ClO a year, and £1 extra for each bar, If a soldier iu possession of t.hn Cross is incapacitated, the pension i,H increased:l« £50. And,this, except in very rare circiimstaneoH, is for life. The greatest number of mon ever employed on one structure, was in connection with the Cfizeh Pyramid, where 7,000.000 men were in forced labour. This pyramid is 450 ft. high, and covers an area of 13 aeros, twice the dimensions of any other building in the world. In one inntanco it fook 2009 men three years in bringing a single stone from the quatry.