GENERAL INFORMATION.

Lake County Press, Issue 1066, 28 May 1903, Page 3

GENERAL INFORMATION.

Spain has had thirty-one wars in the last one hundred years. * A wild duck can fly at a speed of ninety miles an hour. * It is said that the frigate bird can fly an entire week without stopping to rest. | The Australian telegalla is the ; only bird that leaves its nest fulli fledged. * A square mile in the rich river- ! valleys of China will support ■ 3,840 people. ! —i— Very few people's noses are set properly on their faces ; 89 out of | every 100 turn to the right. * I The longest span of telegraph wire I in the world is that over the River j Kistna, in India. It is over 6,000 ft. i * To produce a cashmere shawl of ! the best quality requires the constant labour of four persons for an . entire year. I —*~ Taking all civilised countries the average ago at which women marry is said to be twenty-three and a half years. * Denmark leads the world in agrij culture. Each inhabitant has nn an ! average a capital of .£137 invested in farming. The longest railway journey in the world without changing is on the : Canadian Pacific, from Halifax to Vancouver, 3,66- miles. * There are forty-eight different materials used in constructing a piano, from no fewer than sixteen different countries, employing forty-five different hands. {. Compensation represented by a ! pension of £s~> a year is being j sought at Frankford by a man who received a paralysing shock while using a long-distance telephone. V The streams in various parts of Borneo are at certain seasons 1111- | navigable, because of the clods of i mosquitoes which infest them. j It may surprise some people to learn that a modern Atlantic liner must earn about £16,000 clear per trip before a penny of profit is made. + Reutenbourg, a German village, 1 with just 4-41 inhabitants, rejoices in the curious distinction of having an exactly equal number of men and 1 women. * Class bricks are gradually coming into use, and it is said that glass will soon be used for making statues ,or public places, as it resists the corroding effect of the weathet' much better than marble and granite * Birds cannot open the foot when the leg is bent ; that is the reason they do not fall off their perches when asleep. If you watch a hen walking, you will notice that it closes its toes when it raises tho foot, and opens them when it reaches the ground. * Cocoa is running a close race with tea as a beverage in England. It is on account of taxation. Tea is taxed sixpence a pound while the tax on cocoa is only a penny a pound, and the cheapness of the latter has caused many to begin using it. + Moustaches are not worn by men, exposed to the severity of an Alaskan winter. They wear furl beards to protect the throat and face, but keep the upper lips clean-shaven. The moisture from the breath congeals so quickly that a moustache becomes embedded in a solid cake of ice and causes the face to be froeen iu a afeort iuu. (1399}