INTERESTING ITEMS.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 50, 3 August 1908, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Tho King of tho Belgians 1* dre&flk ed and downstairs every morning by 6 o'clock.

Whistling will do much towards the development of a robust physical frame.

Twenty-seven women find employment in Australia as professional kangaroo hunters.

Red-haired pooplc arc less likely to become bald than those who possess hair of other hues.

The decrease to the world’s shipoing by wreck and breaking up averages 725,000 tqns yearly.

Chinese historians trace the l>cgilining'of a postal service in their coun try back to the third century B.C.

Two of the greatest literary productions of the Chinese are a dictionary, in 5,020 volumes, and an encyclopaedia in 22,937 volumes.

Russian railways are the most dangerous in the world, Thirty persons in every million passengers are either killed or hurt,

The sun’s rays penetrate tho water? of the ocean to a depth of some 20Q fathoms, Thus the greater part O’ the ocean bed is pitch dark.

A common-sized hen’s egg weigh* about 900 grains, and consists of : Shell and skins, about 100 grains ; white, 530 grains ; yolk, 270 grains.

An authority on the subject d«* dares that many cases of defective eyesight are caused by wearing tight collars, which interfere with the circulation of blood to the head.

Teddy : “Papa’s the captain of our ship, and mamma’s the pilot.” His Teacher : “And what arc yc-u?” Teddy : “I’m the compass, I suppose—they're always boxing me.”

What is considered the smallest dictionary in the world is in the library of the of California The book is a French-Enclish dictionary, 1 l-Bin. long by {in. wich* It was printed first in large type, and then reduced to its present fizc by photographic methods. Each page contains about 110 words, the book containing 630 pages.

The most exact timekeeper in the world is the electric clock in the Berlin Observatory. It i.r enclosed in an airtight cylinder, and has frequently run for periods of two three months with an average daily deviation of only fifteen one-thou-sandths of a second. It has been running since 1865.

A restaurant for concentrated is to be started in Paris by an enterprising French chef. The happy, diner will en;qy a menu of tabloid*. From the hors d'oeuvres to de/met t his entire mca4 will be presented to him in a few square inches. In this way a busy man will be able to eat his dinner in a few minutes, and carry it about with him in his waistcoat pocket to swallow in spare moments. ,X099._