GERNEAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 475, 19 June 1912, Page 6

GERNEAL NEWS.

Highland regiments first served in 1756.

African deserts are from thirty to forty feet deep in sand.

Ireland has fourteen thousand acres under fruit cultivation. The Testimated wealth of the United States is £25,000,000,000. Mr Andrew Carnegie gave away eight million pounds last year in charity. At the Cricklewood Home of Rest for Horses the dinner bell is regularly rung by one of the horses. Opium is nearly three times its normal price, and the value of other drugs has correspondingly increased. The super-Dreadnought, the Orion, will cost up to March 31st of this year £1,769,894. Arundel Castle,the seat of the Duke of Norfolk, is the only tenure the possession uf which carries with it a seat in the House of Lords.

In France the cheapest duel costs £lO, while it may cost anything up to £SO; and if a combatant is killed his adversary and seconds are liable to penal servitude. Small paper towels are sold in New York at 450 for Is 2d.

Anaemia can be successfully treated by fruit diet, especially with bananas. Ships can be weighed in a few minutes by means of an instrument know as a por-hydrorneter. Since 3870 nearly ten thousand lives in the United Kingdom have been saved by means of the rocket apparatus.

Careful investigation baa shown that the English measure rod pole or perch owes its origin to the pole, or goad, which was used to direct oxen

When Lloyd's has undertaken to replace any loss incurred in a ship or its cargo, agents of the company follow (every movement of the ship until it reaches its destination.

Mr Asquith declares he has not spent mure than an average of four hours a yearin bed through illness. Lord Roberts strongly believes in "lucky days." "Bob's'" lucky day on which he has experienced most of hi 3 good fortune, is Tuesday.

General Baden - Powell is lefthanded, but can use both hands when sketching. He often draws with two pencils simultaneously, holding one in each hand.

Mr F C. Selous, the famous big game hunter, is an inveterate tea drinker, and partakes of this beverage with every meal. Yet he has nerves of steel. He has been a total abstainer and a non-smoker all his life.

Mr Elia3 Taylor, parish clerk of Felsted, England, hag retired on reaching the age of ninety, after fiftyone years of service. During his term of office he daily ascended the church tower to wind the clock. He discharged that duty 185,00 times, and climbed 100 miles of etairs.