INTERESTING ITEMS

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 15, Issue 30, 15 April 1904, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS

The Algerian town of Oran celo brates this year tho thousandth an niveraary of its foundation. * ,i Artificial rubies are now success fully made, up to 12 or 16 carats, by M. Vorneul, a scientist of Paris. *— Damping the nostrils with fresh, cool water, enables a human being to smell 50 per cent better than ordinarily. * The ignorant peasants of central Russia believe that rain is the perspiration of the sky caused by its being so near the hot sun. * It is stated that there are mou specimens ’of the cedar of Lebanon in the gardens round London than pi. Mount Lebanon itself. . * ' The Scottish golden eagle is os fine as any in the world. The sane species is found in Algiers, biutj of a much smaller and lighter build. .|_ The building with the largest stones in tho world is not in Egypt, but at Baalbcc in Syria. The stones are 60ft. long and 20ft 4 on each side. j W* Fish that swim at a depth of 100 fathoms are subjected to a pressure of 2691 b. to the square inch. The atmospheric pressure at t.m-lcvcl h only 151 b. to the square inch. j * Running makes a person warm because a greater quantity of air is inhaled into the lungs. More oxygen is thus introduced, and the blood is heated. • j Only 104 persons in 1,000 have right and left arms of equal length. In 469 , out of 1,000 women the right arm is stronger than the left. In men 590 out of 1,000 have the right arm the more powerful. „■] j. 1 . 1 The aborigines pf th£ Islands employ a perfect whistling language, by means of which, they can communicate with eacli other over long distances, A stranger wandering over the islands is frequently surprised to hear from a hill-top the sound of loud whistling, which is quickly repeated on the ne*t hill, and so Is carried from summit to summit until it dies away in the distance. . (870.1