BREVITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1003, 15 April 1908, Page 3

BREVITIES.

In "every mil^of rafl_>vay. there are seven feet > not VJoyerecl by. /rails.- This consists of small spaces? leit between, the rails to- ''allow for expansion. The smoke from the bowl of a pipe is blue; fbecause it is hi ghlf oxidised ; but the smoke issuing from : one's lips is grey, because, it is then moistened and hydrocaTbonised". According: to-Lords-Gromer,- Egyptians have- ajig^eati propensity for hoarding gold! One Iherchant hid £100,000, =which no~bne knew about till his death. ' .- „_____ The mattxesses used in the, German Army, are stuffed ,witli little rolls of paperi They are said to be more comfoi'table than those filled with fetraw^j and are cheaper. Diiring the war with Russia the girls in the -.Jiigh..- schools of Japan stayed two hours after school each day to make bandages for the soldiers.