INTERESTING ITEMS.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Tho King of the Belgian* E l ** * n daily terror of assassination.

Austria has passed a new law. compelling every possessor of a vote to use it

Only one man in every hundred ii the Tsars Army possesses a bandkerchief. »

Something like a million and a hall steel pens can l>e made from nne ton of steel.

Human hair to the vnluc of nearly a million pounds it annually told In France.

Lavender and rose perfumet art credited with the virtue of being microhe-killers.

I* spite of the cold, mosquitoes flourbb and are an intolerable nuisance in Alaska.

The King has a special weakness for muffins, and always has one with his afternoon tea.

The Prince of Wales spends most of his leisure in reading and in pasting stamps in his album.

A great-grandson of Burns, the poet, is now acting as magistrate in an American police-court.

A hand-whistle has just been produced by a Birmingham firm tc carry a distance of two miles.

Tho Australian coastline ts unbroken by any stream of water for 1,000 miles.

German military experts say that, in the event of war, London could b€ captured in two days.

No heat accompanies the light emitted by the glow-worm, and naturalists have not yet solved its cause.

The Kaiser has just had a sundial erected in his garden, with the inscription, "I count only happy hours."

Brandy-and-water is supplied free of charge to all members of the Belgian Parliament who make a long speech.

There have been twenty-seven cases of insanity in the Bavarian Royal Family during the last hundred years.

Swedish doctors do not send bills tci their patients, but leave the payment entirely to the generosity of the latter.

A new hotel for Europeans has just been erected near Jerusalem. Most of it was built by women, paid at the rate of sfd. a day. In Vienna there is a highly efficient voluntary street ambulance society, Their services were required last year no fewer than 80,000 times.

At Apl, in the Congo Free State, there is a training school for clepharts. At present twenty-eight of these huge beasts axe being taught to carry logs of wood and make themselves useful in other ways.

There art far more sharks In the Mediterranean this year than usual. It is supposed that submarine explosions during the late war between Japan and Russia have driven those fish to seek more peaceful homes. The infant prince of Spain hoe hod his name entered on the roll of a regiment, and he wears fcts number on his bib. A bed in the barracks is reserved for hiui us the latest recruit. 10U&. f