GENERAL INFORMATION.

Lake County Press, Issue 2138, 4 October 1906, Page 7

GENERAL INFORMATION.

One hundred new words are annually added to the English language. Four thousand and sixty-one muscles have been observed in the body of a moth. * The banana is -11 times more productive than the potato, and 131 times more so than wheat. * In proportion to its size, Grea't Britain has eight times as- many miles of railway as the United States The Calcutta "Englishman" advocates the commemoration of the Royal Indian visit by the creation of Privy Councillors of Indian birth. »r Experiments in regard to manufactured tobacco for the British Navy are. to be continued with a blend milder than the ordinary service tobacco. During the 17 years that she lived a ewe which has recently died in Nottinghamshire bore 120 lambs, including ten sets of twins and one of triplets. — On account of the risky nature of their duties all seamen of the Royal Navy serving on board submersibles receive extra pay, at the rate of a shilling a day. .r. Banns of marriage between a European Anglican clergyman and a Kaffir girl, the daughter of a native minister, have be.cn published at East London, Cape Colonv. * King Edward's first separate residence was White Lodge, Richmond, where he was given a suit of rooms in 1858. — ii, —: The colour of the Arctic fox is dark blue in summer, but in the autumn it changes gradally until winter when it assumes the tint of snow. * Professor Hyde, of Chicago, has expressed the opinion that cancer is due to the injurious effects of sunlight upon the human body. * The balance-sheet of the South Wales Miners' Federation shows that a general strike could not at present be sustained for more than three weeks. A, Thread made from the spiders web is lighter and stronger than that which comes from the silkworm. In France there is a factory, devoted to the manufacture of spider thread. There i/;. really no home life in Korea, because women are not recognised in the home. If a man meets his wife in the street he does not notice her, while, if she sees him in time, she tries to slip out of sight. Scientists have discovered that the memory is stronger in summer than in winter. Among the worst locs of the memory are 100 much food, too much physical e.vcivhc, end, strangely enough, too much education. 1015.