NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 429, 26 November 1918, Page 4

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

♦ Only nine per cent of cajwt k MB" jutation are fatal. Pigeons were first used M Mflrtora of messages 700 years ago. Sugar alone will apparently Mfttais life for a considerable time. The island of Malta is tk« Mt densely populated spot on earth. The Paris sewers are tie lanes! and moat complete in the wortd, The world annually produces two Bullion tons of butter and cheew. It is said that there is never an odd number of rows on an ear of com. The British Isles comprise no fewer than 1,000 separate islands and islets. Blind men outnumber blind women two to one. Only one person in ifteen ha« perfect eyes. The sun yields 800,000 times the light of tlie moon. Envelopes were first used in their present form in 1839. There are about 1,400 places of wor ship in London. The West Indian humming-bird weighs only 20 grains. Iron horseshoes have been found dating back to the year 481. Champagne was first made by monies in the seventeenth century. Camels can hold from two to three gallons of water in their humps. Infectious diseases are quite unknown in Greenland. The cherry, the peach, and the plum were first grown in Persia. One hundred new words are annually added to the English language. Lions and tigers are too weak in lung power to ran more than halt a mile It was 3<<o years ago in Florence, that the first grand opera was produced. A simple remedy for a squeaking door-hinge is the application of the tip of a lead-pencil to the hinge. The product of the wax-trea, of the Andes cannot be distinguished from beeswax. The fixed stars are of all colors violet, blue, preen, and red predominating. According to the return, 31 is tht average age at which professiona men marry. It is said that 6n per cent, of the cases of shortsightedness are ditary. •ixty languages are spoken in the Empire governed bv the Czar of Russia. Artificial limbs are usually made of willow wood, on account of its lightness. Moscow's orphan asylum, founded •by Catherine 11.. is supported by a tax on playing-cards. The head of a rattlesnake has been known to inflict a fatal wound differ being severed from the body. Scorpions are the most quarrelsome creatures in ihe woild. Two place;, in the saine bex w.ll al'A'u>3 siiii;; each other io deails. An elephant's sense of smell is se delicate thai the animal can scent ; human being at a distance ot I,oo' yards. * Nearly all the Hand of Pa ha doe • Is cut up iin" small farms and inland is very prolific. The chief produels are sugar and arrowroot. Scientists say thai the whole human body is full of microbes, and that u person is healthy so long as the microbes are in good condition. It has been calculated that the Whole coal supply ot our planet would barely stifl.ee t.o produce heat equal to that which the sun dissipates ic one-tenth of a second. There are in India about two hundred thousand widows age' between ten and fourteen years, atiJ eighty thousand that are less than nine years old. » * Clusters of clover, if hung in a room and left to dry and shed their perfume through the air. will drive bv.a\ more Hies than sticky saucers of fieacle and fly-traps and f!'papers can ever colled. A snail travels at the rate of half a" ii a second; a man walking, i ft. a m!: a i'a.-i runner, s.) ft.; a p \, L' ; a fic-t skater, 3S ft.; n carrier pip on. s; ft.: a locomotive —sixty miles an hour SS ft.; a swallow, l'L'o ft.