GENERAL INFORMATION.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 2

GENERAL INFORMATION.

One hundred new words are annually added to tho English lai gunge. Four thousand and sixty-one muscles have been observed in tho body of a moth. banana is 44 times more j rodu|iMj|tlian the potato, and J3l times more so than wheat. In proportion to its size, Great Britain has eight times ie rnmnmiles of railway as the United Slat, s The Calcutta "Englishman" advocates the commemoration of the Royal Indian visit by the creation of Privy Councillors of Indian birth. Experiments in regard to manufactured tobacco for tin* British Navy are to be continued with a blond milder than the ordinary service tobacco. During the 17 years that she lived a ewe which has recently died in Nottinghamshire bore 25 iambs, 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. * Banns of marriage between a European Anglican clergyman and a Kaffir girl, the daughter of a native minister, have been published at East London, Cape Colony. Kingward’s first separate residence was White Lodge, Richmond, where he was given a suit of rooms in 1858. * 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 anow. * 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 WaleqMiners’ Federation shows that a gen#» strike could not at present be sustained for more than three weeks. —+ — Thread made from the spiders web iB lighter and stronger than that which comes from the silkworm. In France there is a factory, devoted to <he manufacture of spider thread. * There is 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 foes of the memory are too much food, too much physical exercise, and, strangely enough, too much education. 1015.