INTERESTING FACTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1841, 17 January 1889, Page 4

INTERESTING FACTS.

The best camels will travel 800 miles in 8 days. Suspension bridges made of iron chains first built in China 2000 years ago. Seven pounds of American flour make as much bread as 8 pounds of English flour, Plato died B.C. 348, “ being at that time four score and one years of age, and designing to marry another wife.” Each inhabitant in England uses 90 bricks a year. The human body contains gallons of blood, but the blood corpuscles contained therein, if placed end to end, would reach four times around the globe. Te tell the difference between diamonds or crystals, and glass and paste, touch the tongue. Diamonds and crystals feel much the colder. London Gas Companies have a capital of nearly fifteen millions lingThe largest square in London is Grosvenor, 10 acres. St. Stephen’s, Dublin, has 40 acres. Each person in England requires 10 lb of soap a year. Since the battle of Hastings England has had 35 rulers, whose average length of reign has been 23 years. The pressure of the atmosphere on a man of average stature ioi about 15 tons, yet it is not felt. Adults should have 16 teeth in each jaw, viz., 4 incisors, 2 canines, and 10 molars or grinders. Zenocrates’ reputation for truthfulness was such that he was the only Athenian allowed to affirm instead of taking an oath. Dr Tanner, at New York, in 1880, lived 40 days on water only, losing 56 lb in weight. There are about 150 Astronomical Observatories in the world; the oldest is at Leyden, founded 1632. The world consumes 4 million steel pens daily. There were nearly 4 million slaves in IJ.S. in 1860. The civil war cost 655 millions—about £l4O per each slave freed. In 1834 the indemnity for freedom of slaves in British colonies was about £26 per slave.