GENERAL INFORMATION.

North Otago Times, 6 September 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL INFORMATION.

Infectious diseases arc quite unknown in Greenland, England uses six million square feet of plate glass every year.' The smallest quadruped in the world is the pigmy mouse of Siberia. Germany brews one-third of ull the beer consumed in the world, The average price of the. woil.l's wine-crop wholesale is but Is (id a gallon. To salute with the. left hand is a deadly insult to Mohammedans in the East. The most northerly lity in the world is Reykjavik, Iceland, which has 3900 inhabitants. The two little islands of .Zanzibar and IVmba furnish four-fiftlis of the cloves consumed by the world.

An English factory .haml, produces £224 worth of goods in.a year, a German only £l2O. .. It is said that 60 per cent, of the cases of shortsightedness are hereditary, I An albatross has been known to., follow a ship two months without ever being seen to alight. Window plants in Germany, are often watered with cold tea or coffee. The effects are said to-be beneficial, An English factory hand produces £224 worth of fcoods in a year, a ' German only £l2O, In South Africa, £1 has only a purchasing power equal to about 10s. I in Britain. The banana is 44 times more pro- ' ductive than the potato, and 181 limes more ,so than wheat. In proportion to its size, Great. Britain has eight times as many', miles of railway as the United States The two little islands of Zanzibar and Pcniba furnish four-fifths of the cloves consumed by the world, ! Window plants in Germany are ofi ten watered with cold tea or coffee, j The effects are said to be beneficial. ; There is no word in the Chinese j language that conveys an intimation I of what we term public opinion ; nor is there a synonym for. patriotism. j There is no canning industry among the Chinese, All their sauces and compotes are preserved in eartlij ernvaro jars, or in old wine mid beer bottles. I The colour of the Arctic fox is dark- blue in summer, but in the autumn, .it' changes gradually until I winter,--when-it assumes the lint of snow. •' -. .. • j Sharks grow a new row of teeth 'for'every year of their age until they reach maturity.' The jaws of a , full'-growji'-specimen-.can be extended j about.lUin.' :.. . ; t ' it is a curious anomaly lii the law ' that if you pay (oi';voiir,photog;'raph being >taken'iiu-::copy can be sold ■ -without vour,.consent, while if you Ido not pay foi'-lt; the photographer viiiay sell -'ebpli'sHo I ' any extent;.ng it Vi» his oopyirJtfbU ".-..' ■■■'.'--■Wi '