INTERESTING ITEMS.
* In Switzerland, wear men’s clothes.
Birthdays were celebrated as far back as the time of Pharaoh.
Flowers are one and a half degrees warmer than the surrounding air.
The grandfather of the French President was a working blacksmith.
A man’s chances qf sudden death ars eight times as great as a woman’s.
In Hungary you can travel by rail at the rate of six miles lor a penny.
Concrete has been used successfully to patch a hole in a ship’s bottom.
A piece of raw onion is almost a# good as ammonia for relieving the pain of bee-stings.
The first meerschaum pipe waa made in 1723, and is now in thi Pesth Museum.
The Emperor of Japan retains the services of thirty physicians and sixty priests.
Hemains of Irrigation system, 4,000 years old have been excavated in South Africa.
Belgian girls are taught to do housework and marketing as part ol their school lessons.
The Kaiser is a great reader, and his secretaries have instructions to show him everything that appears, about him in the public Press.
There are now several lady gondoliers in Venice, and the men of thq trade arc orgeuisina an agitation an gainst 1 , lOkl.
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 7
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