Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 17 March 1898, Page 2

Notes and Events.

♦ The front end of the great glacier of Alaska presents a wall 500 ft. thick and iti breadth varies from 8 to 10 miles, while its length is 150 miles. A carious tree grows in Malabar. Is is called the tallow tree from the fact that its seedi, when boiled, produce a tallow which makes excellent candles. Forty-four muscles are called into play in the production of the human voice. The longest tunnel in the world is in Hungary. It goes under ground for over 10 miles. The eyes of the birds that fly by night are generally about doable the size of those of day birds. A remarkable eel has been discovered in the Fiji Islands. It has a peculiar formation in its throat which causes it to whistle wtan in an exoited state. A snake does not climb a tree by coiling round it, but by holding on 'with the points of its scales. A snake could not climb a glass pillar. The Yukon river is navigable for about 2,300 miles from its mouth, but the navigation is interrupted at many points by bars and rapids. Tbo rate of discharge of this river into the sea is 800,000 cubic f««t of water per second, which is greater than that of the Mississippi.. The skin of the reindser is so impervious to the cold that anyone elotbed in auoh a dress, with the addition of a blanket of the same material, may bear the intenseit rigours of an Arctic winter's night.