GENERAL INFORMATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 526, 14 December 1912, Page 6

GENERAL INFORMATION.

Hares are excellent swimmers, but rabbits cannot swim at all. H.M.S. Superb, built in 1876 at a cost of £531,845, was subsequently sold for £19,000. The small white cabbage butterfly has a perfume of delicate fragrance like that of the mignonette. St. Peter's, the famous Roman Church, can accommodate 54,000 people. The annual cost of feeding a battalion of soldiers one thousand strong is £18,250. Twenty-eight seconds is the tandem cycling record for a quarter of a mile with a standing start. Mr. Andrew Carnegie began life as a bobbin-boy in a linen factory, at a wage of five shillings a week. In twelve hours 36,620 vehicles pass through Mansion House Street, London, giving an average of 37 a minute. "Immunity tickets" can now be purchased at some bazaars. They insure the holders against being pestered to buy. Last October two Frenchmen rowed from Boulogne to Folkestone and' back in an ordinary light doublesculling skiff. English was spoken by 22,000,000 people at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Now more than 100 million, people speak it. Army officers in Germany get reductions on railway and theatre tickets, and take precedence of all civilians at any social functibn. Prince Von Buelow, the late Imperial Chancellor of Germany, was offered, some years ago, £1,200 a year to join the staff of "The j Times." More than two hundred country carriers' carts still ply weekly between certain country districts and some of England's pleasure towns.