INTERESTING ITEMS.

Lake County Press, Issue 2117, 10 May 1906, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

■«.•£•.•< . v " I Strange that men who are afraid of ( '~ j ghosts are not afraid of spirits. ;;: i —*— .J | Th prevent snow-blindni-ss the naj lives of Tibet grease their fares, and j then blacken the skin all round their , !eves with burnt sticks. >K ' .»_ j To clean, white fox fur, obtain one ' | shilling's worth of bran, bake in the ~ oven until quite hot : rub it- well in- , I to the fur, shake out, and comb. 1(i I About 2,000 vessels of all kinds ~_ ; disappear in the sea every year, car- :_ rying down 12,000 human beings, 1,. and involving a loss of about £2O, „ j 000,000 in property. The country which sells most to ~, I Japan is British India, Great Britain [y j mining next, with China third, the <o ! United States fourth, and Germany a fifth. Sunday in Heligoland begins on Saturday at. 6 p.m., when the church bell is tolled, and continues till t.b*j same hour on Sunday. Formerly no vessel could leave port between these re ' hours. io ! Mr. .Joseph Chamberlain's first er oratorical attempt, at a Birmingham i,) j debating society, was such a disaslc trolls failure that he went home in in ! disgust, and vowed that he would ic never speak in public again. d- During the year ending 1904 estates to the total -value of over 201 i : millions wore left by only rt2,lOS a people in the United Kingdom. For one millionaire of fifty years ago then- are in the United Kingdom five to-day. * Authorities differ widely concerning the amount, of British money put y into other countries. But it is not io many years since the London Stock I. Exchange calculated the probabl • ■- total of the foreign investments of c, the British people at more than ;r £." 4oii non tiOO. i- fr The live highest buildings In the w world are the Eiffel Tower, Pari*, <■'• 081 ft. high': the Washington Monun ment. 555 ft. : City Building, Phila- '• dolphin. 535 ft.; Cathedral of Col- ;| ogtie, 511 ft. ; Cathedral of Strasburg K 406 ft. "' In the Natural I-Tiatory Museum at ' s South Kensington there are on view ''" the head of the Puke of Portland's *' famous racehorse. Donovan, and the skulls of Bend Or and Stockwell. '• Close by. in a glass case, is shown a "' wonderful greyhound, fuller ton, four ■ v times a Waterloo Cup winner. To encourage working people to establish homes of their own. Nor- | way has founded a bank for working IS I men. If lends money at ."<i and 4 ir I per cent., and Rives the borrower it forty-two years in which to pay the •s I loan. The total cost of the house if ! must, not exceed £IOO. and the area d I of laud must not be r*»*e than five f- i acres. * _ >d j In some French quarries stone is is i hewn by means of st*».e! wire cables I moistened with wet sand. »:ul pas- ! sing in an endless rope o"t;r :» series 10 of pulleys. The wire, wivJch runs ;- from I,oooft. to 1,200 ft. a Hirsute. J. ! is charged as it enters the out with <i ; a jet of wwte-r and sand, wrdrh forums ;s ; the cutting material. A running 11 jc&blc of 500 ft. can mnUc a cut 100 ft. > io«a. *9±