Frozen Facts.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3932, 1 December 1899, Page 6 (Supplement)

Frozen Facts.

»•■». . — Gold fish are of Chinese origin. Some butterflies lay over 100,000 eggs. St. Mask's Cathedral in Venice was built in 828. The groat aqueduct which supplied Carthago with water was 70 miles long. ONE-half the population of Mexico are fullblooded Indians. Nixett-skvex out of every hundred Arctic explorers have returned alive. One out of every ISO inhabitant* of the United States owns or rides a bicycle. The Indian rhiuoceros has the thickest skin of any quadruped. These are about 370,000 acres under tea cultivation in British India. The late Emperor Frederick on all his campaigns used to carry" with him his military hymn book, a present from his consort. The growth of girls is greatest in their fifteenth year, and that of boys in the seventeenth. The deepest gold mines in Australia are the Magdala, at Stsweil, 2,400 feet, and Lansell's, at Sandhurst, 2,640. Tee highest masts of sailing vessels are from 160 to 180 feet high, and spread from 60,000 to 100,000 square feet of canvas. Thb fastest train in the United States is the Empire State express, which runs from New York to Buffalo, via Albany— a distance of 439 miles — in eight hours and 40 minutes. In Servia marriages can only be celebrated between sunrise and noon, the bride and bridegroom must be completely fasting, and only one couple may be married at the same time. The greatest fish-eaters in the worid are the Japanese. The eating of meat is nearly entirely confined to the rich, and even they