HERE AND THERE.

Shannon News, 8 March 1927, Page 2

HERE AND THERE.

There are more dogs than children in the Isle of Wight. The definition of the word "Eskimo" is: "Eater of raw flesh." The British National Anthem has been in use for nearly two centuries, British oysters are said to be losing ground in both quantity and size. Even to-day there are stated to be still 3,000,000 human beings held in slavery. The skin of the human palm is 76 times as thick as that of the eye-lid. There is a species of ant which carries'* an umbrella of leaves or petaly when it raius. The last of the British-owned fourmaster sailing-ships, the Garthpool, was built in 1891. Widows are more sought after as wives thin spinsters by the men of Ulster, both bachelors and widowers. Tiger skin is rivalling the fur of the leopard for trimming sports suits and making all-weather hats. The loss to the world's wealth represented by the rusting of iron and steel is about £500,000,000 per annum. Sufficient electricity to light the Sussex village of Heathfield is obtained in the process of burning chalk to make lime. The British Army to-day has 234,500 fewer men than the establishments set up by Lord Roberts before the Great War. Anchored recently bow to stern with a coal-begrimed tramp at Lower Charlton Buoys, near Woolwich, was one of the last five full-rigged sailing ships to fly the Red Ensign, the Monkbarns. Not since the war has a "wind-jam-mer" put into the port of London. A camera-pistol has been invented. It produces automatically and simultaneously with each shot fired a picture of the object aimed at, even in darkness.