GENERAL INFORMATION.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 8

GENERAL INFORMATION.

Never stand an apparently drowned on his head.

When bathing from a boat always dive from the stern.

King Edward was born at Buckingham Palace on November 9, 1841.

Twenty-five million bqxes of hair pins are made in America every year.

AW pudding cloths should be mads square, of thick soft linen—not cotton.

Mark Twain was born on Novembei 30, 1835, at Florida, Missouri, U. S.A.

The officers on the pay roll of the United States army number just over 5,000.

Rags of sawdust were replaced on the wickets to soak up the rain during the last Test match in England.

During the recent forty days' visit of four British cruisers to American waters 161 men deserted.

A teaspoonful qf powdered charcoal every four or six hours will prove beneficial for offensive breath.'

At a police court recently, a man who takes a gramophone round the streets stated that he earned £5 a week* i

Mr. Charles Jarrott, the wellknown motorist, has covered th# 345 miles between Paris and Bordeaux in 351 minutes.

According to an expert, quite 50 per cent, of imported eggs rarely reach English breakfast tables uotil they are four years old.

Few people have an adequate idea of the amount of water that descends from the clouds during a rain storm. We read in the weather bulletins that twq or three inches of rain sometimes fall in a day, and that recently nearly five inches fell in forty-eight hours, in England ; but these figures really convey very little information to our minds and give us no idea at all of the prodigality of nature. An acre contains 6,272,640 suqare inches of surface, and an inch of rain means, therefore, the same number of cubic inches of water. A gallon contains 277.27 cubic inches of water, and an inch of rainfall means 22,622 gallons to the acre, and, as a gallon of water weighs 10 pounds, the rainfaM on an acre is 226,220 pounds. Counting 2,000 pounds to the ton, an inch of rain means over 113 ton# per acre. * * If a domiciled Englishman marries his deceased wife’s sister in a country where such marriages are lawful, the marriage will not be legal in .. England, and the children will be illegitimate, and incapable of inheriting the property of their parents unless left to them by name in the pweats’ 1682-