INTERESTING ITEMS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 28, 5 April 1907, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Constantinople has been besieged 28 times.: t —T The average pulse of a healthy man should beat 72 times a minute. * Epping Forest is the largest public recreation ground in the'world. A The Tartars take a man by the ear to invite him to eat or drink with them. A In Germany a law forbids restaurateurs to serve beer to people ,eating fruit. * A doctor states that tight, unyentilated hats are one of the chief causes of baldness. * Powered rice is said to be of great eflicacy in checking bleeding from cuts and bruises. Jni some of the public schools of Germany the pupils are compelled to 1 learn to ride the bicycle. *- One hundred and twenty stokers are required to feed the furnace of a first-class Atlantic steamer. There are more varieties of domestic animals in the Russian Empire than in any other country in Europe or Asia.

A man six feet high standing on level ground can only set? objects on the same level three and a quarter miles distant. >} Mexico has had 55 Presidents since 1.821. Four of these were executed, one poisoned, four murdered, and seven killed in battle. .j The leaf of the cocoanut tree is nearly thirty feet long. A single leaf of the parasol magnolia of Ceylon, affords shade for fifteen or twenty persons. British people, it seems, eat nioro butter than any other people on. tlul face of the earth. It is partly through this that the British complexion is the purest in the world. Florida has only two species of eagles left, the baldhead and the osprey, and these are being killed so recklessly that the Legislature is asked to protect them and their eggs to prevent their extermination. Advocates of (lovcrnmenl ownership of industries may get some light from the match industry in France, where it costs more to strike a match than in any other civilised country. The business is monopolised by the Oovermnent. In the neighbourhood of the Ber« mud as the sea is extremely trans-, parent, so that fishermen can readily, see the horns of lobsters protruding, from their hiding places in the rocks' at considerable depths. To entice the* lobster from these crannies they tie* a lot of snails in a ball and dangle, them in front of his horns. When ho grabs the ball tliev haul him up. * . : The Ameer of Afghanistan has bo* come a victim to the cycling craze,| but as he is averse to using thai energy necessary to propell a bicycle,; he has had built for him. a machine* on which he can ride in comfort, while two attendants work the pedals. iQ2P,. i