NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 425, 12 November 1918, Page 4

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

.'A chimney 115 feet iu height will, without danger, sway ten inch* ha a Wind. j A/ The occupants of a ballooa a mita high command a radius of aiaety-eu miles. Holland has over 10,004 wiadmttla, each of which drains about 31t acres of land. _. A child should be- able to speak perfectly at the age. of throe and a half years. j A bridge between England and France would, it i.; ..-siimaled. oosl thirty-four million pounds. Four and oWhalf tons of oak timber make a ton of charcoal, while of nine, timber six lo.,; are required. Canada had 83,123 motor-cars in use at the end of Wls compared with 61,060 at ihu end of 1914. New Yerk State has. nearly ten million p opuiatson, ajui more than half liv* i/i the counv.y'-s niciropolis. Be ittle nails are restored to normal ftexi bility by rubbing ihoni nightly wit'u mutton fat. The average life of a note of the, 'Bank of England is a little less than 70 days. Notes are- neva re-issued. Losing his arms and being made blind by an accident, an Illinois man has learned to read raised type with his tongue. Each stroke of a man's heart occupies about half a second; but the heart rests after each stroke, so that it only makes seventy a minute. . Among elephanis both sexes of the African species have ivory tusks, while in Asia these are generally re stricted to the male. A giraffe assumes a high position immediately after its birth. At that time be measurer. 6 ft. from his hoofs to the top of his head . Turpentine, in small doses, frequently repeated, is regarded as the best remedy there !s fjr '{right's 'l's .ease. . Such a variety of races are represented by the oueupants of the Philippines that they speak thirty-one lan Stages. The pain caused by Hie sting of a nettle is due not to the prick itself, but to a pariicle of poisonous fluid •which is injueied into ihe wound. Bread as a daily food is used by oVily about onft-third of the world's population. In many nations rice is the <-hk'f food. It an express I rain, moving at the rate of 45 miies an hour, were to stop instantly;, it would give the passene<- * sihock equal to that of falling from a heigh! of 40 ft. * Among insects, the most intelligent are those of the ant tribe, while next to them rank wasps. Bees come some way lower down) the scale. Beetles are hopelessly stupid, but even they are not as bad as butterflies and moths. In the Argentine Republic if a man engaged to marry hesitates beyond a reasonable time in leading his fiancee to the altar he is heavily-fined, and if a resident of the Republic skottW fail to marry he is taxed until he teaches the age of eighty. AH the men and most of the Mies in Japan smoke, the girls beglaning when they are about ten years of age, The ladies have pipes wit* longer stems than the men, and if one of theiu wishes to show a gentleman a Bpecial mark of favour she lights her pipe, takes a whiff, hands it te him. and allows' his* to smoke. i Bukowina has, liki se many places ■ *u that region, had a varied history i The name means "Beech-land," and i note than half the surface ef the i country is covered with forest, Aus i'" tria, which annexed It from the Turks » to 1775, has ruled it ever shot as i! ft Daeby aad C?om lead. »i <| A aew danger tteeatoM m. W« | have been told that the so* voalc \ I surely one day day grew oota* ant | Jhe earth would t'reeae to deata. TJh », ITrench astronomer Puiseux hae dls « coveted that, instead of shrinking 1 {he sun is expanding more aad more, o and that h may burst at ear mo it ment and blow tho whole erm» u i uaiUiereens. u"