GENERAL INFORMATION.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 8

GENERAL INFORMATION.

The lake district has the greatest rainfall in the British Isles.

A bee can carry twice its owr weight in honey.

Portland cement Is made of lime and clay, and was invented in LeeJi in the year 1824.

The first convicts were landed at Bota.nv Bay in January, 1788. They were 775 in number.

Tobacco smoking, particularly cigars and cigarettes, is increasingly popular in China.’ F

A Greek prisoner who is sentenced to death has to wait two years before the sentence is carried out.

The Shah of Persia has just given a Paris firm an order for six new motor-cars for his own private use.

Cramp can be relieved by pressing the feet against a hard and" cold subas a hearthstone.

The golden eagle is poss-nsM ol such strength that it, can lilt and carry off with ease a weight of 80lb.

Hard beds are recommended by many physicians as conductive lo the most refreshing kind of sleep.

The notes of birds, while corresponding with our musical scale, also include vibrations occupying the intervals between our notes. Persons born in spring are generally supposed to have a more robust constitution than those who are born at other seasons of the year. The wedding-ring is worn on t hi* left hand because, while the right hand is supposed to represent autho - ity, the left hand represents obedience. The crown wqrn by the Austri+mJ Emperor, which is regarded as 0110 1 of the finest works of European gtd - t smiths, contains over £IOu,o».o worth of gold and jewels. English people are said to bear up better against intense cold than a gainst intense heat, the piiicipal reason given being that the cold air is less tainted with the germs of