GENERAL ITEMS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 October 1920, Page 4

GENERAL ITEMS

A needle passes through 80 operations in the course ol manufacture. Sound moves about 743 miles per hour. The Chinese invented paper 170 B.C. Swansea Docks can berth the largest vessels afloat. Portsmouth is the most strongly fortified place in England. Cattle-ralslng is the chief industry of Abyssinia, A church of solid coral is to b« seen on the Isle of Mahe, which is ob« of the Seychelles group. It Is estimated that the skeleton ol an average whale weighs about twenty-ftve tons. Prom Paraguay comes a new pod* bearing plant, which produce* a use* ful "vegetable silk." In all races the man's brain averages 10 per cent, heavier than th« brain of the woman. Horses, giraffes and ostriches hftra the largest eyes of land animals, &n 6 Cuttlefish of *ea creatures. According to an estimate, the gkinfl of more than 100,000 animals are used annually in binding Oxford Bibles. In 1860 only one woman worked for w»g«s to every ten men; now the ratio la one woman to four men. In Korea widows never re-aawty. Even though they had boon married only a month, they must not take a second husband.