INTERESTING ITEMS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8615, 12 June 1924, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Pythons discard the outer lenses of their eyes when they cast off their skins, as all snakes do.

Sapphires are very popular for en-gagement-rings in Paris, following the fashion set by the Duchess of York.

Typewriters which arc painted white all over are said to improve the users’ output whilst causing less eye-strain.

In the old days of horsed fire-en-gines, it used to take two minutes to turn out ; a motor engine can turn out in from 8 to 30 seconds.

Many people sneeze if strong sunlight falls on their faces ; this s probably due to a temporary congestion of the lining membrane of the nose. *,

At one of the largest watch factories in the world fifty loaves of new bread are used up each working day for cleaning the delicate parts of watches.

Coloured shades for lights, in rooms where writing or fine sewing is done, should completely enclose the light; otherwise the mixture of white and tinted rays is detrimental.

Pilotless aeroplanes, emitting streams of luminous smoke, and operated from the ground, are to be used for writing advertisements -in the night skies, if experiments now being carried out are successful.

A man who marries a ready-made family soon wears a ready-made suit.

Life is not bearable with a" woman till it is unbearable without her.

Conductor : "How old are you, my little girl ?" Little Girl ; "If the company doesn’t object, I’d prefer to pay the f«U fare and say sctbso£«’*