NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 437, 27 December 1918, Page 4

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

a Th* Swedish mil* ts tba unseat ti ft* wedd, A tea of oo*l produces aeaitr tsa >mri cubic feet of gas. Mansion House Street Is the aaett eat in Leadca, The screw of *a Adaatie atatasar easts about £ijm. Of th» ? growa-ap men ta WagaM If par cant, are bald. Honey will torn to wax if Mt uatoucbod for some time. OX seven Presidents of Fraaos enly one has served a fall term. Brussels sprouts are by far the most valuable green vegetable food. The first lighthouses had fires of wood and coal kindled at the top of them. Russia has more holidays per annum than any other European nation -86 in all. Bricks made of coal dust are used for paving in Russia. The coal dust Is combined with treacle and resin. A band of surgeon's plaster around the thumb, below the nail, will cure children of sucking their thumb. The smallest bone in the human body is to be found within the drum of the ear. A message passes from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other In about three seconds. Grapes are squeezed six times in making champagne, yielding wine of different qualities. The biggest wine-cooler is at Windsor. It was made for George IV., and two men could sit in it with ease. The coastline of the Pacific Ocean is only 47.000 miles, which is less by 8,000 miles than the coastline of the Atlantic. A little soup, a morsel of meat and vegetables, or a piece of fuh, a sweet, and a bit of cheese is dinner enough to keep a man in health. Hares, horse;;, and giraffes are better able to see object'; behind them without turning their head- than any other quadrupeds. Of Spain's surface only "7 per cent, is cultivated, 26 per cent, being pasture and forest, and the rest wild and barren mountain laud. On the great. Orsk goldlield. in Siberia, all may dig free of charge: but they must sell their gold at a (Tied rate to the proprietors. The great sait-mine at Wielicska, in Galicia, has galleries vhich aggregate over thirty mfies in length. The total yearly yield is 55.000 tons. The ancient Egyptians used a form of blast furnace in 2000 B.C. There are pictures of these ironworks on the tombs at Thebes. The banana h the most prolific of all the fruits of the ea:th. being forty"four times more productive than potatoes. A company has offered the city of New York 900,000 dollar;- for the privilege of removing the city's garbage for five years. Men of force and industry everywhere will toil you that it is the hardest thing in the world to do nothing. Artist gardeners in Japan earn' large salaries. They are required to twist and direct young trees and vine until they assume the shapes of various animals. The telescope, so far from being, as is generally averred, the outcome of the famous experiment of Galileo, was known at least three hundred years before his time. The largest statue in the world is not Bartholdi's statue of Liberty, in New York, bin the sphinx at Gixeh. The sphinx is 172! feet long by 356 feet high. A horse will not step on. * man Intentionally. It is, therefore, a standing order in the cavalry that if a trooper becomes unseated he must lie still. If he does this in all likelihood the whole squadron will pass over him, leaving' Liui unhurt. A new danger threatens us. We have been told that the sun would surely one day day grow cold, and the earth would freeze to death. The French astronomer Puiseux has discovered that, instead of shrinking, the sun is expanding more and more, and thai it ma> burst at any momem and blow the whole system to sniithereeß.*. At thirty the human body has readied Its full height, which is retained for a few years, after which a "growing down" process begins. At first, and for many years, the process is so slow as to be almost imperceptible; but. at the ate of about sixty it begins to bo i oli 1 cable; ami after seventy, even tuou.gr 'ho veteran does not stoop at all the fact that he is "growing down" l«'c«iii's apparent. The air after a heavy snowfall or fhower, is usually very clear, because the snow or rain, in falling, brings down with it most of the dust and Impurities, and leaves the atmosphere exceedingly clear. Tortlaeshell. as It co es to market from the West Indies, is coarse, dirty, and lustreless, und oily the moat skilful and patient manipulation makes it the rich and beautiful material ft eventually becomes.