NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1219, 3 June 1919, Page 3

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

The sun gives six hundred thousand fanes the ligrht that a full moon does. Considerably more than 200.000 separate species of insects are known. Dawson City, Yukon, is the most northerly town in the British Empire. Until the year 1874 the Japanese nsed to vaccinate on the tip of the nose. A paper chimney, fifty feet high, and fireproof, is a curiosity to be seen at Breslaa. Nine million women are engaged in flerman enterprises, 20,000 being in the mining industry. Since the days of William I. eleven English Sovereigns have been crowned on a Thnrsday. Out of the 1.623.000,000 inhabitants of the world. 160,000,000 speak the English tongue. In Italy water from hot springs is extensively used in gardens for the early production of some crops.

Alcoholic drinks have been forbidden in Iceland, and the two last baskets •f champagne have been exported. The Normans who conquered England shaved tbe face and the back of the head, so that Harold's spies declared they were an army of priests. The latest chair for the victim of •ca-sickness has a movable seat vibrated by an electric motor. This is said to give surprising relief to the sufferer. AH other things being equal, a baritone voice in a man and a contralto voice in a woman will wear better and last longer tban any of the others. The cow-tree of Venezuela forms a natural dairy. Its sap is similar to milk, and is used as such by the natives. Anemone means "windflower," and is so called because it is so delicately poised that it sways with the slightest motion of tbe air.

Over sixty two thousand women in tbe United States cultivate fruit, among them being several of California's most successful fruitgrowers. The manufacture of some of the finest tapestry is so slow that an artist cannot produce more than a quarter of a square yard in a year. Chicago mothers, anxious for the welfare of their daughters, have decided to form a "card index" of eligible bachelors. The word "preface" used in the beginning of books was originally a word of welcome to a meal, and was equivalent to "Much good may it do you." Lost children in Japan do not long remain astray. It is the custom for parents to label their children with addresses, so that in case they wander any wayfarer may send them home. Byron wrote his celebrated poem of the "Bride of Abydos" in one night, and without mending his pen. The pen is yet preserved in the British Museum. Among stamp collectors a movement has been started for tbe wearing of a small metal token on the watch chain, go that enthusiasts may recognise one another. The ancient Greeks called the rambow 'The Scarf of Iris." Iris, in their mythology, was the attendant of Jupiter, always represented as being exceedingly beautiful.

The flying-fish does not really fly, but raises itself from the water by means of its lons fm<=. It can support itself in the air until they become dry, when it drops back into the sea. The origin of the phrase, "Mind your P"s and Q's" is said to have been it call of attention in the old English alehouses to the pints and quarts being scored down to the unconscious or reckless beer-bibber. Erery oyster has a mouth, a heart, a liver] a stonwh. besides many curiously devised little intestines, and other organs, necessary organs such as would be handy to a living, moving. intellitfSSi creature.

Divers in the clear waters of the tropical seas find that fish of different colours, when frightened, do not all dart in the same direction, bat that oath different kind takes shelter in thai portion of the submarine growth nearest to its colour. "To take one down a peg" » an allusion to lowering a ship's flag, which is r.-gulated by the pegs to which the line is fastened on deck. The higher a ship's colours are raised in saluting, the greater the honour. Hence, to take them down a peg is to lower the dignity.