ODDS and ENDS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43366, 1 September 1908, Page 3

ODDS and ENDS

j A ton of gold is worth £69,072. Roses serve as food for about 100 species of insects. England contains about 13,000 square , miles of coalfields. During last year 29,208 vessels entered the Port of London. ' Russia suffers from famine on an average every 10 or 12 years. 1 The inhabitants of the United Kingdom post 4,4000,000 letters each week. An Act has been passed in Bermuda prohibiting the use of motor-cars in the islands. A caterpillar will, in the course of a mouth, eat food weighing 6,000 times as much as its own body. The Frieburg silver mines, in Saxony, after being worked for 700 years, are about to be closed. I Among the factories in the Wandsworth district of London is one devoted ex- ' clusively to the making of dolls’ clothes. It has been estimated that less exertion is necessary to ride 15 miles on a bicycle than to walk three miles. Medical men on an average die. sooner than other professionial men. Between the ages of 45 and 65 two doctors die to one clergyman. Engine-drivers who have run their locomotives for 10 years without accident are rewarded by the Government.