NEW,ODD, INTERESTING

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 381, 7 June 1918, Page 4

NEW,ODD, INTERESTING

Tea is more beneficial if made from hard water. Potatoes in Greenland do not gzv* larger than an ordinary marble. Asia contains mare than hatf tha people of the world. The British Houses af Parliament cover nine statute acres. The ordinary active tile of a toe* motive averages fifteen years. The average reign of English Ml archs has been twenty-three years. Boy babies learn li talk mow than girl babies. A borae a*tfi dtee times its in f&od in a year; a aheap atx tinea Many watches mate fta» beate per second, or day. Of the earth's surface, l£OQtMt acres ate iiiuM te tobacco ooiture. The skeleton ■mama about an inch less than the height at a Bring person. Sudden deaths among man are eight tines greater than those among women. The largest vineyard in the war hi is 735 acres in extent, ft is at Sunny Slope, California. Half the human race die before they reach seventeen, and only aw person in 1,080 reaches sixty. British people sat more batter tfran any other nation —a fact which, it is said, results in their cosnpJexton hethe purest tn the woeffi. The heart of a vegetarian heats an an average flllysdght to tJ» urtiiiitr.; that of a meafceaier seventy-five. This represents a dtHterewe of 24.000 beats in twanty-ftaos. The Washington Monroe*, te Washington, D.C., Is the bighe* te "the world. It towers ftre hundred and fifty feet m the air, and Is composed of eighteen thousand blocks e< marble, each two feet thick. In the Philippines fishermen aaU a kind of seaweed which becomes a robstitute tor imported gelatine. The native women use it to produce desserts similar to those made atee where from gelatine. An old French lady recently bequeathed the contents of a certain cabinet to her doctor. When he opened it he found untouched all the medicines and drugs he had prescribed fer her during the previous twenty years.

Among the highest priees ever paid under the hammer for a book in England was £4,950 for the Fast and Schoeffer Psalter, printed on vettnm, 14:,9. The celebrated Mazarm Bible on vellum brought £4,Wfl.

The teak, which has passed into proverb as the best material for shipbuilding, is superior to aH other woods from the fact that it contains au essential oil which prevents spikes and nails driven into it from rusting. Korea's sacred mountain, KongoSan. or Diamond Mountain, as it is more commonly called, carries, it is claimed, twelve thousand granite peaks, rugged and grotesque in torn ami almost impossible of being scaled. The maidens of Denmark never experience the pleaaure of receiving a diamond engagement-ring. They are presented with a plain gold tend, which is worn on the third finger of the left hand. On the wedding-day the bridegroom changes the ring to the right third finger, which is tho marriage linger in that country. in every battalion in tt»e Army there is a small body of men known as pioneers, who are the only men who are allowed to wear beards. Between them they are sapposed to know something of the duties of a carpenter, bricklayer, smith, mason, pain tec, glazier, plumber, ami gasfitter.

The roar of a lien carries farther than the sound of any other living creature. Next comes the cry of a livena, and then the hoot of '.he owl: after these the panther and the jackal. The donkey can be heard tilty times farther than the horse, and the cat ten times farther titan lh»- doe. Strange as it may see*, the cry of a hare can be beard at a greater distance than that ettiier the cat or the dog.

Quinine is the greatest fever-filter known to modern seienee. It is believed to have been discovwed hy a

Jesuit about 15.%. and was christened Jesuit's Bark by the Order; Iftat it* earliest publk- use was when the wifc of the Viceroy of Per*, the' Qwutess Cbineon. was cured of an attack of

fever by the drug. Tie notoriety thus civet) to this valuable drug caused it to be tiamt'd a.&er its distinguished patient, and the bark was ♦ hereafter known as the product at the eincbona tree. This lady brought ii in Kii rope in IG.'iS, and when its value became known it fetched its weight in silver tor a certain period.