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Evening Star, Issue 20779, 29 April 1931, Page 11

It has been proved again and again that the average man has little sense of time. In a recent experiment each of a number of men was asked to hold up his hand at the end of a minute. The estimates of a minute varied from twenty-two to forty-seven seconds. The hungriest King was Louis XIV. of France. It is on record that at one meal he ate four plates of different soups, a pheasant, a partridge, a plate of salad, somo roast mutton, two large slices of ham, a fair share of pastry, and a dessert of fruit and preserves. Human hair is employed in the operation of a new electric fog bell. A strand of several hundred hail's is stretched between two supports, ' and on the strand is a link. As the air moistens the hair stretches, the link is lowered, and an electrical contact starts the electric motor operating the bell.