GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 October 1901, Page 3

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

The owl’s wise look is the result of a physiological oddity, his eyes being fixed immovably in thoir sockets.

A Berlin watchmaker has invented an instrument which will measure time to the thousandth part of a second. On some parts of the coast of France, when the wind is east, the mist that appears bears with it a very noticeable perfume.

The embracing extent of the British Fmpiro may be judged from the fact it contains 10,500 islands and 2,000 rivers.

Explosive bullets were first used in India for hunting tigers and elephants. They are not used forhuating the Boers.

The Japanese believe that their emperors are descendants from the gods, the present Mikado" being the 121st in direct lino from the heavenly being. The Bank of England destroys about 850,000 of its notes every week to replace them with freshly printed ones. One evening in each week is set apart for the making of this expensive bonfire. The mortality table shows that the month of January and the first month of exceedingly ho* weather in the summer are more fatal than any other time of the year.

An immense coal bank in Wyoming is called the “ burning mountain.’' It has been on fire ever since the first white man visited the country.

Lemon baths are popular in the West Indies. Three or four lemons are cut up and left to soak in water for half an hour. The bath is very refreshing. The strongest sentiment of the Turk is his reverence for his mother. He always stands in her presence, until invited to sit down—a compliment he pays to no one else. Phonographic clocks which verbally announce the hours of the day are made in Germany. You can there get a clock that will speak in any of the modern languages.