INTERESTING ITEMS

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 49, 10 July 1906, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS

■ I Japan’s annual tobacco crop is about 40,000,000 pounds. of cattle destroyed by I wild boAsts in India last year exceeded 86,000. i Best, cork comes from Algeria. There are 5,500,000 acres of cork forest in that country. One hundred and twenty-one women are employed in English tobacco factories to every 100 men. Tho working people of Italy eat less meat than those of any other European country. ! The sentries in the army of the Haytlan Republic are provided with chairs when on duty. A man, walking day and night without resting, would take 428 days to journey round the world. I The elephant has so di licate a sense of smell that it can scent a human being when the latter is a thousand yards off. The United States has in its schools more Chinese students than any other country, except Japan, outside of China. 1 The commercial wealth of India, with its population of 30,000,000, is said to be in the hands of less than 90,000 persons. * Imitation frosted glass is made by dissolving in a little hot water as much Epsom salts as it will absorb. Paint the glass with the water while \ it is warm. * If a load of coal is left out of doors, exposed to tho weather—say for a month—it loses one-third of its healing quality,. —* Few people remember that Lord Curzon is eldest son of a peer, as w&fcars'being a peer in his own right. His father is Lord Scary,dale. I The richest bed of nitre in the world is at Atacama, in Chili. It covers 5,000 acres, contains 25,000, 000 tons, and is valued at £300,000 000. Japanese inns furnish fresh toothbrushes every morning free to every guest. The brush is of wood, shaped like a pencil, and frayed to a tufty brush of fibre at the large end. A frequent cause of a watch gaining or losing is the way it is disposed of at night. A watch that has been worn next tho body til day, and is then suddenly transferred to a marble mantelpiece, or any other cold place, is sure to either gain or lose. The lliudoos consider their dead as sacred, and do not allow them to be handled by alien hands, the nearest male relative—son, father, or brother —preparing the body for burial, if there be none of these a son is adopted by the family the purpose. * The age of a horse cannot always Vie told by looking at his teeth. After the eighth year the horse has no more new teeth, so that this method is useless for a horse which is more than eight years old. As soon as the set of teeth is complete, however, a wrinkle begins to appear on the edge of the lower eyelid, and another wrinkle is added oafh year so that to get at the age ygffi soire than eight years oldCyou ml count the teeth jplug the vA inkles, /