INTERESTING ITEMS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume LIII, Issue 2793, 6 November 1922, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Cod-liver oil is about 250 times as potent in food values as butter. Melancholia is often a result of billiousness.

The sting of a bee i§ only about one thirty-second of an inch in length. Over 62,000 private wells were damaged or destroyed in France during the war.

The first aerial time-table, consisting of nearly 100 pages, has appeared in Germany. A letter posted in Berlin at 7.30 a.m., and sent by air, may reach London by 5.30 the same day. Five human heads must be held as -trophies by the man of Formosa who would woo and win a wife. J. D. Rockefeller has transferred nearly all his fortune to his family, to obviate paying death duties on his demise.

Men are encroaching upon women's work to such an extent that unemployment among the latter is increasing seriously.

Joy, a greater interest in our lives, constantly new experiences all tend to keep us young, despite our years, says one scientist.

Thirty-five electric motors control the movements of the giant telescope recently installed in California for astronomical observation.

Fish, frogs, etc., which are able to change their colour to conform with their surroundings, lose this power if they become blind. Although blind, a Canadian ex-sol-dier recently passed the Canadian Civil Service examination for employment as a shorthand clerk. Reaching the record height of 33,000 ft. in an aeroplane, a Frenchman said he seemed to be flying through a rose-coloured atmosphere! when at that altitude.

In Japan dresses are often sold byweight. About two hundred rivers flow into the Baltic Sea.

An elephant rarely sleeps for more than five hours a day. The Persians have a different name for each day in the month. Over five thousand miles of nets are set nightly during the herring season in the English Channel. Alcohol was first distilled by the Arabians, and when we talk about coffee and alcohol we are using Arabic words. In the two years of its career as a republic, Poland has issued one hundred and fifty varieties of postagestamps. Salt beds covering an area of forty square miles exist in Nova Scotia. One bed alone .is said to be 900 ft. wide and 80ft. deep.

Two men photographed in a London studio were seen to steal some money from the till on passing out through the shop. The woman photon grapher developed the negative quickly, took the photograph to the police, and the men were arrested*