STATISTICS THAT STARTLE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1924, Page 2

STATISTICS THAT STARTLE.

RECORDS OF TYPISTS 4ND TALKERS. At the recent Fur Exhibition, in London was shown a coat in the making of which twenty miles of thread had been used. This is, of course, a record, “but it brings to mind the fact that there is a. great deal more .work in the ordinary things that surround us—our clothes, houses, ornaments, pictures, and so on —than is generally imagined. Take a pair of knitted socks. There are 100 rows to each Tin of length and 102 stitches in each row at its widest part. Roughly speaking, two suck cylinders each 7in long compose a sock, so that we are faced by the startling fact that there are something like 40,000 stitches in a pair of handknitted socks.

The Cour£ train of Irish point lace which Queen Mary wore at the Coro, nation. Durbar was made by the Presentation Sisters of Youghal, and contained five and a quarter millions of stitches.

Have you the least idea how many times a painter touches the canvas with his brush in the painting of a picture? A man who had his portrait painted by two different artists took the trouble to count the number of strokes made, and found that in each case the number was about 20,000. A woman typist has worked at a speed which, by counting the letters, proves that sh© tapped the keys at the rate of 755 times in one minute; while a well-known barrister once talked at the rate of over 9000 words on hour for thirteen hours. The actual length of his speech was 124,800 words.

An engineer has discovered by the aid of a pedometer that a cook takes on an average 2093 steps in preparing three plain meals daily; breakfast, 446step*; lunch 651; dinner, 996 steps.