General Items.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 22, 2 March 1906, Page 3

General Items.

—o — Enough spiders’ webs to go round the world would weigh half a pound. In the coffiin of a woman who died about a year ago at Kaschau, in Hungary, £24,000 has been found hidden iu a pillow. A German photographer, when taking a picture of a lady of doubtful age places sheets of celluloid between the negative and the printing paper, thus producing a very softening effect, which hides the marks of age. The £5 notes used by the Bank of England cost exactly onehalf-penny each. Dried currants given to horses occasionally, insled of oats, are said to increase the animals’ powers of endurance. Horses in Iceland are shod with sheep’s horn. In the Soudan, a kind of sock made of camel’s skin is used for this purpose. There are 17 metals more valuable than gold. The returns for England show a *ffiurch membership of 2O(JO above '-’fhat of last year, and those for Walesanincrease of between 13,000 and 14,000. It may interest many to know that from an artistic point of view a woman’s face is more beautiful when viewed from the left than from the right. WMen of marked ability in any line have usually one deep, perpendicular wrinkle in the middle of the forehead, with one or two parallel to it on each side. In one year a sheep, the property of a Tipperary farmer, has given birth to no fewer than seven lambs —four in March last and thi’ee m the closing days of the year.