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Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 41

During the last 300 years there have been more changes in liat Irish ions than in any other part of men’s attire. Built of concrete in the middle of a lake, a huge relief map of the world is used to teach geography in a Californian school. The milk bill of the London Hospital has risen from £SOOO before the war to £16,000 now. Olympic games for Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos have been held at Shanghai, where 1000 fine athletic Chinese school-garls competed, a remarkable contrast to the old footbinding days. Users of the ‘“wireless” telephone will know that they are using this new invention only by the absence of the humming of the wire, making the voices much clearer. Earthquakes occur in Great Britain once a month, on an average, but only one in every 200 causes any damage. Trench maps, which were printed for military use on strong canvas, are now being used to make inner soles for tennis shoes. Two ladies recently passed, the examination of the British Auctioneers and Estate Agents’ Institute. The average daily consumption of water m London is 35 . gallons per head of the popu ration. Divorce suits in Britain increased from 1267 in 1913 to 5763 m 1919. Slang is claimed as the language of the future by an American professor. Certain forms of seaweed contain as much as 48 per cent, of sugar. As a sale of jewels at Christie’s, London, £15,009 was obtained in 10 minutes. Bloods tests arc now suggested as a means of finding out whether people are engaged in work suited, to their health and temperament. A witness in the Bow County Court had Ins held head laltooed with stars, birds a stag, and oilier animals. The promotion or reduction in rank o! Chinese officials will depend on their zeal in suppressing the opium trade. Orders have been received in Belgium foi 36 locomotives lor Chinese railways.