GENERAL INFORMATION.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2659, 12 May 1908, Page 7

GENERAL INFORMATION.

f ..Camels have from the -earliest daty-s been, tame or domesticated" • • -'X, NSVer kick a live telecfric^Wirje;jii^i' it's ctawn. . \ :...

The Simplon Tunnel has cut the length of the journey from Paris by an hour and a half.

There have been twenty-seven cases of insanity in the Bavarian lloyal family during the last 100 years.

Sixty-eight of every hundred newspapers in "the ./world 'afe printed in the English language.' ■ ~ s

The sperm-whale can remain bellow the surface? for fibout, twenty minutes at-a* time. ' Then'it cbm£s up and breathes fifty or sixty times, taking about ten minutes to so. Three million 6f ' timber are cut in the forests of the world every day. r- f v . -v t j c i ; '• \ )f? J The latest estimates give the total number of Mohammedans in the world at -200,000.000., - \ , ' r-4 ' « \ \ t 1 The elephant rarely sfleeps rnoro than four or five hours a day, in spite of his capacity 5 for hard work. t In France 4-,000,OOfc) tons of potatoes are annually used in the manufacture of starch and alcohol.

j "I' *' • J $ 1 The average .number of eggs produced by a halibut "lis millions, but a large cod will have as many as nine millions.

The oboe, or hautbois, which was common in Egypt thousands of years 8.C., :is one? of the earliest • of;musical instruments.

The term "bosh," which became common in England about the time of the Crimean War, is simply the Turkish word for nothing.

The willow is one of the most adaptable of plants. A willow shoot stuck in the wet ground will often take root and become a tree.

| The original millinq: . was a pan, and was so caMed from the city of his business, Milan, where he designed, made, and sold female finery.

The people of Iceland are so honest that there are neither prisons nor police in the country. It is said that there have been only two thefts in one thousand years.

A doctor says that persons who at-i tain their thirtiejth year fering from any serious disease are 1 likely—all things being equal—to live till they are at least seventy-three' years of age.

Jn the modern novel or play the straight, clean, unsophisticated man . who looks through shibboleths and shams is for some reason almost fdr ways a Colonial, -and generally an Austra s lia ir" Aca l e ,°'o <.J£L In the United Kingaom 46 per "

1100,000 inhabitants are in prison. | This average compares favourably ! with other countries.' In the United States 132 per 100,000 are in prison, on any given day, in Italy 217, and in Cape Colony 310.

j Needle-makers are most subject to ; consumption of! any trade; file makers /■ next, then lithographers. Miners and charcoal-burners suffer least from the disease, and next to them butchers.

The average life of a British ship is twenty-six years ; but Scandinavians make their craft last on an average thirty years. The life of an American ship averages only eighteen years. 1601