New, Odd, Interesting.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 July 1911, Page 4

New, Odd, Interesting.

A GTGANTIO HOTEL. New York will shortly possess the largest lrotel in. the world, built at an outlay of nearly three million pounds, the site alone costing one million .Jjpe hundred thousand pounvls. it is planned to have one thousand six hundred rooms and one thousand. 1 bat'hs, and the structure, wMdh will be erected in a central district, is to be twenty-five storo.vs■high. THE WORLD'S LAZIEST PEOPLE. There is no doubt that the Malays aro one. of the laziest people in the. world. Except in rare cases they will not take the trouble to learn when they are young, and afterwards if they .have learned, they will not exert tihe-mselves to apply their knowledge to any object which requires a sustained' effort. That they possess energy is -kniown to any one who has seen Malays engaged in any enterprise which savours of sport. They do not mind -the trouble if there is only some risk and. excitement in the work. "SNEEZE-WOOD." In Sontih- Africa is to he found the "sneeze-wood" tree, wftidi .takes its name from the fact that one canmlot out it with a saw without sneezing. Even in planing the wood the same effect is sometimes produced. No insect or worm will touch it; it is very bitter to the .taste, and its specific gravity is .heavier than water. The colour is light brown, the.Toin running very close and Itoard, and! it takes a good polish. Fkxr docks, piers, or jetties ,it ie a most useful timber, keeping sound a long while under water .