CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 727, 2 May 1922, Page 8

CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

IfEW, ODD, INTERESTING —.— There are always about 1,200,000 at sea. Wounded soldiers aro saluted whenever they are met in France. It is estimated that one crow will destroy 700,030 insects every year. The cocoanut palm lias leaves nearly thirty feet long. Afghanistan serves as a buffer be tween British India and tlio Russian Empire. ■ In Denmark it is said that there is not a single person who cannot read and write. . In besieging a town the first German shell is always directed against the wireless installation. All members of the Japanese Government were on half-pay during the war with Russia. An average elephant, in point ot strength, can do tho work of half a dozen horses. One of the bombs dropped by a Zeppelin is estimated to have been 4601 b. in weight. Foolscap paper derives its name from the fact that the watermark on it in early times was a fool’s cap. It is said that an excellent beverage similar to tea, can be brewed from the common maidenhair fern. Hindus venerate the common marigold, and frequently adorn their idols with wreaths of its golden flowers. Longwy is known as the iron gate of France, and was fortified by the French owing to its strategical position Oil the Belgian frontier. An apple eaten before breakfast serves as a natural stimulus to tho digestive organs. In fact, any fruit eaten raw is nutritious at breakfast. New York is to reinforce its plain clothes detectives by several women, who .will wall: boats at night and protect young girls. The Atlas moth, a species found in China, has wings which measure almost twelve inches across when they are fully spread. In several towns in Germany working men are visited at their homes on pay-day by saving-bank officials to collect their savings for banking. It was not until the eleventh century that stockings first came into use. Before that time it was cusiftmory swathe the foot with bandages. The exact length of the simplon tunnel is twelve miles and a quarter. The contract price for the tunnel was over £2,300,C00. One of the big Atlantic steamship lines lias fitted every state-room on its vessels with an electric apparatus for heating ladies’ curling tongs. Fishes that live below a depth of three thousand feet and rise only at night to within three hundred feet of the surface were recently found in the North Atlantic by the Duke of Monaco. Minneapolis is outclassing all. other American cities in utilising flowers to ornament the business streets. Windowboxes and hanging gardens have been introduced in all the snipping thoroughfares. Tito home of the rosemary was origiaa!!v in the South of Europe, more especially in Italy, where it grows to the height of six or eight feet, either lining trained upwards from the ground or embedding its roots in an old wall. <• it: three varieties—gold, silver