INTERESTING GLEANINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 21, 22 January 1901, Page 1

INTERESTING GLEANINGS.

Men Capable op Bearing Arms.—Th» number of men capable of bearing arms U calculated ai one-fourth of the population . Great Capb or Venice.—The great eafi of Vemce—Floriana's. on the pia2ia of St Mark—lias never been closed, nignt or day. for one hundred and fifty years. Bund Readers.—lt is said that bo fewes [ than 200,000 books for the blind are borL rowed annually fromthefree-lendingUbrariei ! in diflerent parts of the old country. ! Appeakance of a Man's Height.—lt ti tound by calculation that at 328 yardi a man has the appearance of one-third Ilk height, at 437 yards, one-fourth; and at 540, one-fifth. £4,000 for a Lady's Tooth.—M. A. ..enoir, the founder of the French Mtaenm, : relates that during the transport of the remams ol AMaruland Hcloise to the Petit! 1 Außiistins, an Enßlishman offered him loo.ooofr. for one of the teeth of Hcloise Wooden Skewers.—The only manufitc. :ory of wooden skewers in the world, it is apposed, exists at Toledo, Ohio, whence lnllions of them are shipped to England, hey are made by machinery from hickory blocks. Between eighty and ninety thousand .ire turned out every day. Thimdi.es.—Thimbles lined with indiarubber arc now employed, and are said not to fall off so easily as the ordinary" unlinod thimble. They are also warmer to the skin. and free from the metallic " rust" which *< metimes takes the form of TCTdigriß,a eub> stance of a poisonous nature. AQuaict Law.—ln ijjMhftCorporation of Chester ordered, under tlu penalty of a fine of 33. 4A., that no unman , * woman should wear wKi te or coloured < - ui) that none but sick or a.-red women s\h\:i.{ vu-ur a hat unless riding or going abroad i .it, tho (Coidimwd on fourth page.) t|