LYCEUM PICTURES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 438, 3 January 1919, Page 3

LYCEUM PICTURES.

A big Pathe production " Fires of Youth" heads the bill for screening at the Premier Hall to-morrow (Saturday) evening. This is a picture of pathos and hamour with Frederick Ward as the iron hearted Pemberton and little Helen Badglfey m " Billy." The story shows a strange friendship between a hardhearted man of wealth and a little street urchin, a beautiful story of people who worked in a Hull pit and yet knew lore, and the master o! a mansion who sought for love in 0 Tain. An intensely dramatic picture. ' A reasonable allowance of water for a town is 80 gallons per head of the population daily, for all purposes. A waterspout spins with et-oraoM speed. Its velocity at the sea level has teen estimated six miles a minute, • The average life of a icte of the Bank of England is a little less than 70 days. Notes are never re-issued. The Esquimaux of Alaska make waterproof boots and shirts of the■kin of the salmon. Analysts say that butter Is the most nutritious article of diet, and that bacon com? 3 next. Fresh eggs sink readily in cold stale ones go down slowly, and bad ones will float. The blue coat worn by butchers originated from its being the color of the uniform of a guild. A well-known doctor states that baked banana is the Ideal food for nervous and ansmic brainworkers. The greatest force known to«cience Is that produced by the contrac' icn and expansion of metals resulting • action of heat and cold. Grasshoppers attain tK r create* size in South America *iu-re u»»y grow to a length of fi - their wings spread ou' f i f ' The albatross vartes fr-i. 12»b to « lb in weight. TU« largest ever ■= wa .s 17' a, ft. bet we- ,- , -ipse fits vii stretched wings. The largest in the i that of the Grand House Part* vhich is 100 ft In width, 2MfU Ui depth, and Jn heipbt.