INTERESTING ITEMS.

Lake County Press, Issue 2137, 27 September 1906, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

You can't get the best of some men because, they haven't any. Half the human race die before they reach seventeen, and only one person in 1,000 reaches sixty. * The Nile is noted for the variety of its fish. An expedition sent by the British Museum brought home 2,200 specimens. Many a fellow had discovered the difference between loving a gii'l extra vagvntly and loving an extravagant girl. J. Insurance statistics show that, if the wife dies first, the husband on an average survives nine years ; while if the husband dies first, the wife .survives eleven years. It has been calculated that the loss from illness averages 20,000,000 weeks of work in the year or 2J per cent, of the work done by the whole population" between fifteen and sixtyfive years of age. * A gigantic shoe trust exists in Russia, nearly all the shoes sold in that country being manufactured by one firm in St. Petersburg, which is one of the most prosperous stock; companies in the world. * The imports of petrol into British ports last year were estimated at between 450,000 to 500,000 forty-gal-lon barrels, or 55,000 tons, only about, half of which was for motor use, the remainder being used for drycleaning and paint-mixing. A Football was invented by the Chinese many hundred years ago. This game was cultivated as an exercise suitable for the training of soldiers. It was introduced into Japan, where it became very popular From these two countries it spread over the entire world. The people who inhabit St. Kilda, in the Outer Hebrides, number seven-ty-six only, and have no telegsaphic communication, and no posts from September until May. They have hardly any use for money, such traffic as exists being carried on by barter ; even their rents are paid to the landflord's factor in sea-birds' feathers; whilst other produce is consigned through the same channel, luid goods are sent in exchange for it. - 1014.