INTERESTING ITEMS.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 21, 2 January 1907, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Half the human race die before they reach seventeen, and only one person in 3,000 reaches sixty.

+ The Nile is noted for the variety of its fish. An expedition sent by the British Museum brought home 2,200 specimens.

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 froifr dilaess averages 20,000,000 weekfc olAvork in the year or 2$ 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 gold in that country being manufactured by one firm in St. Petersburg, which is one of the most prosperous stock companies in the world. The of petrol into British , ports last year were estimated at bo- M tween 450,#100 to 500,000 forty-gal-lon barrels, or 55,000 tons, only I about half of which was for motor H use, the remainder being used for dry* V cleaning and paint-mixing t M —* — .M Football was invented by the Chinese many hundred years ago; This game was cultivated as an ex- f ercise suitable for the training ol f soldiers. It was introduced into Japan, where 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 telegraphic communication, and no poets from September until May. They havej hardly any use for money, such traffic as exists being carried on by barter ; even their rents are paid to the landlord’6 factor in sea-birds’ te*-J there ; whilst other produce is con-; signed through the same channel,' j and goods artgMMMMZchange Jor /