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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 97, 29 August 1918, Page 2

It is said that a halt fraS tSa tail of the horse is the strongest single animal thread known. Whistling, according to some pEysicians, will do much towards the development of a robust physical frame* Grass is the natural food of tKe horse. On no other food will he keep so healthy, become so strong, or live so long. Russia's population is increasing at the rate of 2,500,000 a year. It now stands at about 147,000,000, >of whioh 100,000,000 are peasants. The cost of fuel on steam railways is about 10 per cent, of the operating expenses; on electric roads it is about 5 per cent. All the employees of the literary paper in Paris, called "La Fronde," editors, compositors, press-workers, etc., are females. It is estimated that greater quantities of gold and silver have been sunk in the sea than are now in circulation in the whole world. The head of a man or woman in normal health contains about 80,000 hairs. Each hair grows at the rate of .1095 inch a day, and lasts from two to six years. Many Greenland women are bald on the sides of their heads, owing to their method of dressing the hair, which is pulled back tightly and held in place by a ribbon A novel method of encouraging children in their studies is practised in the schools of Mexico. Those who show proficiency are permitted to smoke cigarettes while pursuing their studies. The death-rate of the world is about 67 a minute, and the birth-rate 70 a minute. This apparently slight difference causes a yearly increase in the population of over 1,500,000 souls. The foot should be as long as the ulna, or chief bone of the forearmthat is, from the small head of the bone to be seen at the wrist to the point of the elbow should he the length of the foot. In Formosa there is a tree between 2,500 and 3,000 years old, with a circumference of 65 feet, and the lowest branches 45 feet from the ground. The tree is a species of cypress, tha "°™ i