New, Odd and Interesting.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 696, 3 January 1922, Page 7

New, Odd and Interesting.

No J#w may purchase land in Russia*

A Russian does not, com© of age until he is 26.

The Belgians are the greatest potatoeaters in the world, and the Irish Come second. ' x •

Weak tea, with milk and sugar, 13 considered aa excellent restorative for tired horses* ,

Railways use over 2 million tons of steel a year, almost half the world’s product.

There are twenty-eight pounds ol* blood in the body of the average grownup person.

The beautiful patterns which are -'used for cashmere shawls are frequent- | ly copied from the leaf of the begonia.

The costliest fur is that of the sea otter. A single skin of this animal will fetch as much as £2OO.

Lightning does most damage in level, open country. A town or city, with its numerous projections and wires, is com-' iparativelv exempt.

The Chinese pen is a brush made of soft hair, which is best adapted for painting the curiously • formed letters of the Chinese alphabet.

Damascus is imcltmbtedly the oldest existing city in the world; Benares and Constantinople,, exclusive of Chinese towns, 1 come next in point of age.

Tall persons usually live longer than short ones, while those born in tlie spring have sounder constitutions than those born during other seasons.

Glass dating from ancient times has exactly the same component parts as that of to-day, while the processes used soems to have been something similar.

The Eskimo gives his doctor a fee as soon as ha comes. If.the patient recovers, it is kept; if not, it is returned.

The earliest complete clock of which thero is any record was made by a Saracen mechanic in the thirteenth century. ' (

Polish women are renowned for the beauty of their hands and feet. They place fineness of the hands above all other clianns.

Black diamonds come from tile province of Bahia, in Brazil. Four thousand pounds was paid for tlio finest specimen known.

Walls built during a rainy season are said by builders to be the strongest. When mortar dries quickly it becomes crumbly, and possesses hi lie binding power.

Grain, animals, ornaments, slaves, iron, and copper have been used as money by many nations; the use of cattle as currency has been extremely common.

People who blow out the gas are to be protected from the consequences of their own folly in future by a new burner, which automatically turns off the gas when tlio light is blown out.