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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 3

Half the zinc of the world come* from Prussia. There are over sixty known varieties of bananas. Sixty jnclii'a is the annual average rainfall all over t'he world. Kvery cat in Berlin nuust wear a metal platv containing it* license-number. Xine-tenths of (lenuany's population can be fed by products of her Own soil. On an average 2(1.0011 letters are posted without addresses in England every year.

Tuberculosis germs can sustain the greatest cold, and isumuuh only at 250 degrees below zero. Chemists assert that, letters written in the ordinary inks in use at the present time 'will be illegible twenty-seven year* hence. Bangkok, Siain, U fouilt on hamboq rafts arranged like fitreetry. each supporting many .houses. The town floats with the tides. Twenty years ago the shell-button industry was introduced into Japan by the (iermans: now .japan is shipping buttons into (lermanv. > It is 'believed by the Turks that geraniums were originally swallows, and that their existence was changed l»y| their touching the rohe of Mahomet. ' Conditions of the Arctic atmosphere are so favorable for the transmission of sound that it is possible for two persons i\ mile apart to carry on a conversation. Kile*'have llown to a height 01 21.000 fret, and an unmanned halloon carrying recording instruments has reached S-").")00 feet—a little more than sixteen miles.