ODDS AND ENDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1918, Page 6

ODDS AND ENDS

The railway from Singapore to Bangkok, about 1000 miles, is now open for passenger traffic. Birmingham is collecting about GUU tons of old tins a year, and soiling the recovered tin at £3OO

a ton. , Six persons have been arrested for alleged smuggling of alcohol from Montreal to Toronto in tea caddies. It takes over 20,000 hales a year to provide absorbent cotton to staunch and bind the wounds of the injured. A i'ox terrier, a tortoiseshellcat, and a white rabbit, mascots at a camp in France, all sleep in the same kennel. One change of apparel for all the troops now engaged in the war represents more than a million bales of cotton. . A person begins to lose height at Ike ago of fifty, and at the age of ninety has lost at least one and a-hnlf inches. Years ago a man introduced to the world "a thin copper strip # for protecting shoe tips, and received £Boo,ooo' in royalties The sxm's light is equal to 550.1 wax candles at li't from the eye. It would take 800.000 full moons to pqua Icloudless sunshine. Seven hundred tons of paper v-ove use: ] in printing the G 3 000.000 new ration bocks. Nearly 8000 people were engaged on the work.

I" an inv.-tl ba'ftle, like the one off Jutland, from five to six thousand pounds ofco tton a minute a l '" consumed by each five warships,