INTERESTING ITEMS.

Lake County Press, Issue 2116, 3 May 1906, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

A penny is estimated to change hands about 125,000 times in the course of its life. .Sailors in merchant vessels have a natural dislike for a cargo of chemicals, since they are st> prolific a cause of fires ami pxplosions. The But was of Africa average only •Ift. Hin. in height, and a tribe called M'Kabba, found near Lake .Ngami, in Africa, average 2in. less. Ireland has on an average, a third more rain yearly, acre for acre, than the Kast of Kngland. The* longest street in the world is Broadway, the main business artery of New York, which is 14 miles long. *r* A German firm lias just introduced a crockery-washing machine which will wash and dry (i,OOO dishes in an hour. In u horse-riding competition, held in [iiiiiic, two ladies, the Marchioness Bourlmii del Monte and Countess* Sehejliler defeated all male competitors, including several well-known Italian sportsmen, Glasses take a higher polish when washed in cold water than when washed in hot. A slight tinge of blue added to the water improves the appearance of the glasses. .A linen cloth, which should be quite dry, is an important detail. Among Red Indians, the women, in carrying their children, strap the infants so that they look in the opposite direction. With the ISskimo women, the child is placed so that it can readily look over the woman's shoulder. Owners of vicious dogs in Dresden have been informed by the Post Office. that, unless they, remove them at once, there will be no further deliveries of letters. This is done to save the cost, of the leather leggings which the Government had to provide, for tile postmen. A glacier, when ii dislodges itself Hid sails away over the Arctic Ocean, never travels alone. In the ,vake of (»\er.\ large one floats a line if smaller companions. The Eskimos •all this phenomenon ''the duck and b.icklings," and anyone who has vat died the progress of the wild luck followed by her brood will apireciate the aptitude of the name. - The loading and unloading of Milky materials caused prolonged deays before mechanism was applied o the task. Now marwjs ore accomplished with ease. The grain ■levator sucks wheat, up from the lold of a ship, <<r from trucks, at he rate of 1-VOHii i<> 20,000 mshels in hour, and «here is a machine ditch, with six shoots, automaticaly weighs, registers, bags, ties up, md delivers 7.1200 sacks o! gram in hour. In Kussia the laundries mark linen \\ arranging each of half a dozen villi threads worked in arrow-shapes irrows horizontally, vertically, diagonally, am) so on. hundreds of diferent combinations may be obtained. \';t s marked on Kussian linen are lever written in the Russian alpha>et, but almost invariably in I,aiin haractcrs. This is a survival of Ihe ime when Russian dandies sent their inen for washing to Holland. One of Queen Alexandra's- favourite leciipations when she is at home at ■ andringhani or any other of the. loyal palaces, is that of arranging ut flowers in vases for the tables of he different apartments. In this latter Her Majesty has quite e.xcepional skill and taste. The Queen lsso collects autographed photoraphs of her friends, and has a /holi> museum of little gifts made by he fingers of her children and grundkikire.n. U9:-i.