INTERESTING ITEMS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 375, 5 July 1911, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

In China people sentenced to death :an sometimes buy substitues. Greece's average annual crop of currants amounts to 150,000 tons. Japanese people sit down in the presence of a superior as a mark of respect. When a boy first enters the Navy he receives 3/6 a week, with rations. Of the total cost of a battleship, It is reckoned that about £1,365,000 is paid in wages. Harold Hunt, aged six, of Cumberland Street, Bristol, has won Pitman's theory certificate, and can already write shorthand at the rate of eighty words a minute. Sir Oliver Lodge suggests how house-bells may be set ringing without any obvious cause. "The bellwires collect atmospheric electricity, by induction or otherwise, which the walls are insufficiently conducting to carry off freely ; consequently the bells get charged, are attracted to a neighbouring wall or pipe, and released suddenly by a spark. This little latteral jerk rings the bell." This, he says, may explain a pheoomenoa often attributed to less familiar causes.