INTERESTING ITEMS.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Tha best artificial leg costs £l6 to £2O.

Brass is the best reflector of heat, of any metal.

Lucknow boasts the larges*, room in the world without, colunfn*. It i* constructed of a kind of concrete.

A falcon trained to carry uie.isages has covered 750 miles in sixteen hours.

Seven out of every eb-Jit loaves of bread eaten in London are made from foreign wheat.

Mullet are perhaps the only fish that throw out rogubr soiJl* ies in front of and above their shoals.

Nickel and bismuth both have tlu* peculiar p*opertj of e.*:pun i nor as they cool.

Frog’s akin, when tanned, though one of tin* thinnest, .* one of the toughest lcatheis

Germany now has 54 mounta hirering dubs wi*h * total membersl.ij. of ovor 142,00(h

Inhaling air by long luvulhc in t> coTd atmosphere is >he best way tc. keep the body warm.

Tbs stars on ihe United State; coinage are six-pointed, while the United States flag carries five-pointed stars.

The smallest European coin in common use is the Prrti«gu»*se tnn*e p*is which is worth 12-l<Xith;. o* * pin-

In tho west doister of West..duster Abbey is a gravestone to John Broughton, once champion prizefighter of England.

French physicians are recommending % their patients to use in their baths perfumed tablets contaimncarbonic acid gas. In dissolM.ir. these make the water bubble vigorCUlslv . 1 , ig,- °