INTERESTING FACTS
Only the finest white ivory, costing up to £93 per cwt, is used for billiard balls and piano keys. Chocolate, first introduced injo England as a beverage, then cost 10s to 15s’ a pound. An all-wood typewriter has been invented by a Bosnian peasant. He has’ also made an all-wood clock which keeps perfect time. Rubber shoes for horse’s are suggested as a move toward silent streets in New York. Children in Britain between the ages • of two and five, number 1,770,000. Australian cable communication with England was talked of from 1857, and became an accomplished fact in 1871. Two swimming pools will be provided in the giant liner Queen Mary; six miles of rugs apd carpets will be required for public rooms and state rooms,,
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21708, 15 February 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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