NEW ODD, INTERESTING

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 427, 19 November 1918, Page 4

NEW ODD, INTERESTING

—— Women have usually t*{ksst tight tk&n men. ' Biottmg-p»j>er is made g$- jcxtam nga boiled in soda j Only 10 per cent., nt §owmn a perfume. Single women, as & raH, i&i) 3e%s«r than tingle men. . ; . The bene, of all animala. 4 tfce quickest to succumb to cold. There are fewer auiciriw. ta than in any other country. ) { In Italy the refuse gathered It streets la sold at auction. _ > The average amount ot gtctaea# 's- ; human life 1« estimated at tea dt-.-par annum. ~... Asiatic cholera Is the mo<?t mfti ; fatal disease known to medic* ' science. All Indian regiments wear the tar ban except the Gurkhas, who wear & little round cap. The strength of a horse is eqeal et an average to that of seven and a hak men. K has been shown that the water el the Antarctic Ocean ie colder than that of the Arctic. The largest sponge even found came from the Mediterranean. It was eve* three feet across, and ten t«et in circumference. Bats are moat curiously constructed, the heart's action being aided by tire rhythmic contractions of the rains and the wings. A woman's corset, worn with cmly the average degree of tightness, exerts a pressure of forty pounds on t>he ©rffans it compresses. No human head was impressed on coins until after the death of Alexan- i der the Great. All images before that time were of deities. It takes about three secoids fot; a message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other. This is .about 70G miles a second. Teapots were the invention either of the Chinese or the Indians, and are of uncertain antiquity. They came to Europe with tea in 1610. It is a strange fact that the right hand, which is more sensitive to the touch than the left, is less sensible than the latter to the effect of heat of cold. The Veddalis, or wild hunters of Ceylon, mingle the pounded fibres of soft and decayed wood with the honey on which they feed when meat is not to be obtained. In fifty years the average height of British men has risen an inch. T-lie present average height for a man of thirty of the upper classes in Britain is sft, B'a in. F""v F.ffv f. ; ' ;.:hei\ run* more iil.t; ■■ J- v. ijc Vial a 'Lie V ' 'M.'II i" .<':>!! ii Aeierica, s>y.iu >;■- o' lie nide"s of that ■„ . , : . > iii's old are sometimes met with. The age is ascertained by the size and number of layers of the whalebone, which increase yearly. One of Ihe most curious plants in the world is the toothbrush plant, a species of creeper which grows ia Jamaica. By cutting a piece of the stein and fraying the ends the native# make a toothbrush. In Denmark any person who at the age of twenty-one pays to the State a sum of J-ti 10s. is entiiled, if lie reaches the age of sixty-live, to an annuity ot £i:». But if he dies before that age the money is forfeited. Students of heredity assert that children born of very young fathers and mothers never attain .>0 vigorous a growth of mind or body as those of older men and women, while children of old people are usually delicate, serious, and old-fashioned, manifesting a dislike for juvenile sports. There is at Gibraltar an interesting colony of Barbary apes, tiie only one in Europe. Only twenty of the animals are living. They are highly prized and carefully proiected. Their home is on 'he higher portion of tlie famous rock, i\<epi at such times as the_\ are driven d<>wn by cold winds. Bread is made from chestnuts by the mountain peasantry in Italy and France. After the nut - have been blanched the> are dried and ground. From this Hour a sweet mid heavy cake is made which resembles the oaten meal-cakes -*> popular in Scotland. One of the most beautiful of the early lighthouses, and the first, tower in a sen-swept position, was Cnrdouau light 011 the coast of Frame at the entrance, to the River (iironde. It was built in Hi 11. and, although it has been remodelled, some of the original structure is Mill there, over two hundred feet high.