THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 26, 5 June 1913, Page 7

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Donkeys dislike drinking from or crossing running water. West Ham Guardians received 1620 applications for the post of gate porter at the workhouse. The population of England at the time of William the Conqueror did not exceed 2,000,000 all told. The costliest fur. is that of the sea otter. A single skin of this animal will fetch as much as £2OO. The Boer War came to an end on June 2, 1902, pence being signed on that date. On the shores of the United Kingdom last year fish to the value of moi e than 11 millions sterling were landed. Diamonds may be black as well as white, while some are blue, red, brown, yellow, green, pink, and orange. i The Eskimo gives Ms doctor a fee as soon as he comes. If the patient recovers, it is kept; if not, it is returned. L . The earliest complete clock of which there '■ is any record was made by a Saracen mechainc in the thirteenth century.

The beautiful patterns which are used for cashmere shawls are frequently copied from the leaf of the begonia. 'a ■. s $ Jn point of time Europe and America are nearer together now than London and Edinburgh were 200 years ago. The Chinese pen is a brush made of soft hair, which is best adapted for painting the curiously-formed letters of the Chinese alphabet. French colonies and dependencies in all parts of the world have an area of four million square miles and a population of 40 millions. Lightning does most damage in level, open country. A town or city, with its numerous projections and wires, is comparatively exempt. Dredging in the Thames below Sonning Lock, workmen brought up huge specimens of stags’ antlers, apparently belonging to a prehistoric species, jt

Tall persons usually live longer than short ones, while those horn in the spring have sounder constitutions than those born during other seasons.