GENERAL INFORMATION.

Lake County Press, Issue 1064, 14 May 1903, Page 3

GENERAL INFORMATION.

*.**. Women have usuanlly better eyesight than men. * In addition to many other sources of wealth, Canada, it is stated, has over .100,000 square miles of oil lands. * When a criminal is *, sentenced to death in Greece, he must wait two years before the execution of the sentence. * A sanitary Bible for use in courtrooms, is a new idea. It is bound in while celluloid, so that it caai be readily washed and disinfected. * Since 1850 the world has expended £300,000,000 in waging- war, and four times that sum in holding standing armies in readiness. * It is computed that at the present time there are about 200,000 i Frenchmen bearing noble titles to : which they have no right. —+— One of the most remarkable e& I ports of the Gold Coast is that of monkey skins. During the last five years an average of 175,000 skin* has been annually exported. * Flowers bloom all the year round in the Sandwich Islands. It is, therefore, believed that that country rather than Japan deserves the title" of "flowery land." _t_ v By an Italian law every cirevs that does nut perform every act promised in the printed programme, or which misleads the public by moans of. pictures, is liable to a fine oi £IOO for every offence. .!« One of the most curious plant*) in the world is the toothbrush plant, a species of creeper which grows in .Jamaica. By cutting a piece of the stem and fraying the ends tfce natives make a toothbrush. + Most of the ivory thet comes to the market is " dead "—that Is ivory taken from animals long since dead, and which has been stored away by the natives for years. There is no danger in Africa of the supply being exhausted for several geneialie** at least. U.