GENERAL INFORMATION.
An ounce of 24-carat gold is worth £4 4s. Hid. + Cholera first appeared in India in the year 1774. Astronomy was first brought to Europe by the Moors. j Christianity is estimated to have 338 million followers; Buddhism, 340 million. .[. The most difficult ot animal products to find a substitute for is whalebone. * A new-laid egg averages 2Joz. In' weight, ot which shell and akin weigh about Joz. , | * I Water is a good conductor ot heat upwards, but a very bad oae of heat downwards. * Even the best furnace yet invented wastes ninety per cent, of the heat of the coal burnt in it. + Professor Huxley has said that the' chin is a better index to character than any other feature. * Judging from plant fossils found j in its bed, the Thames is an immea-: sely older river than the Severn. j + President Roosevelt’s address to hi# supporters before his last ©lection was printed in no fewer than twelve different languages. i + It is not generally known that Lord Kitchener served as a volunteer under the French flag in th* FrnncoPrussian War of 1870. 4r- t In Borneo, when a child fall* sick its name is changed, the idaa being] to deceive th* evil spirit which lw
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 39, 14 May 1907, Page 6
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