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London is the healthiest capital In Europe. Intrinsically, Victoria Crosses are worth fourpence halfpenny each. London bridge has been burnt down six times. Anti-aircraft guns can throw shells to a height of from three to five miles. "Kid" is gipsy for "child." Hence the term kidnapping. Shakespeare's plays brought him la about £2O a year. Gray's immortal "Elegy" took him seven years to write. Colour blindness is more than twice as common in men as In women. Visit!-: ~ card-* fn C'.-.'na are usually of a bright red colour. Men have a stronger sense of taste than women
The memory i- 1 sal'l to be stronger in summer than in winter.
In the nriti-li, French, and Carman armier. a tattcry consists of r,ix guns; in the Russian Army, of twelve.
The left hand of a railway porter is usually larger than the right hand. This comes of shutting carriage doors.
Monaco possesses the smallest army in the world. It consists of 75 guards, 75 carabineers, and 20 firemen.
Shakespeare makes nineteen allusions to boots, thirty-two to shoes, and seven to slippers and pumps.
In Cochin China parties desiring to get a divorce break a pair of chopsticks in the presence of witnesses, and the thing is done.
In ancient Greece amethysts were worn round the neck to prevent intoxication : hence the name, which means, "unintoxicated.''
There are cases on record of lightning flashes striking the surface of ponds, lake?, and rivers, and killing quantities of fish.
A sentry never gives up his rifle to anyone—not even to his general, no matter how persistently the latter may demand it.
A French translator of plays once translated Cibber's comedy of "Love's Last Shift" as "La derniere Chemise de l'Amour."
11l Henry VIII.'s reign, the British Navy consisted of the Great Harry, 1,20© tons, two ships of 800 tons, and six or seven smaller ships.
If a bo\ six feet deep were filled with sea water which was allowed to evaporate there would be two inches of salt left on the bottom of the box.
In America those who vote aeainst their party In what they believe to be the Interest of their country are called "Mugwumps.''
George 111. took dinner at four j'clock; Gcorse IV. at six; William IV. at seven; and Queen Victoria and her successors at eight.
Bachelors of ever r.wem.y-nve years of age were taxed in England in the seventeenth centur;* —£12 10s. for a Juke, and for a common person, one shilling.
It Is said that the word "teetotaler" originated with Richard Turner, an English temperance orator, who had an impediment in his speech and invariably spoke of t-t-total abstinence.
The Romans punished parricides by first scourging the criminal, then sewin c him up in a leathern sack made air-tight, with a live dog, a cock, a v ipcr, aud an ape, and thus casting him into the sea.
There is no law saying that a wed-ding-ring must necessarily be of gold. Carriages have been celebrated when, in the absence of a proper ring, the ring on a church door key has been used.
Charles Dickons* writing was rery minute, and his habit of writing v. ith blue Itik upon blue paper with frequent interlineations and cross-lines, made bis copy a burden alike to compositor and prool-reader.
In the West Indio3 a large caterpillar, found on the palm tree, is es teemed a table delicacy, while the edible nests of Java swallows are so rich a dainty that the Ingredients of r. dh.h will cost as much as £ls.
Amovz the simple inventions which are awi-T-Sg evolution, and any one o which would make a fortune for itr inventor, arc; a bottle which cann ha refilled; a nut for bolts which w* ! not shake loose; a smoke-consumir. appliance; a good pencil sharpener; and a means of driving away flie3.
Pocket-handkerchief - were issued in the thirties of ln-t century while journals were subjoc' to the stsmp duty. The editor of onf of them, "Berthold's Political Han-I kcrcliicf," suggested that after si> months' wear, if the ink washe-1 r.nt he would buy the kerchiefs bacV Again from his readers. The p. ioe of this novel newspaper was louryenje.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1220, 5 June 1919, Page 6
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