GENERAL INFORMATION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 13, 12 February 1907, Page 2

GENERAL INFORMATION.

In Spain, street-performers on the guitar are licensed, while organgrinders are rigorously suppressed. It takes an eyelash twenty weeks to roach a length of .lib) inch, and then its life is from 100 to 150 days German engine-drivers are given a gold medal and a sum of money for every ten years' service without accident. The stroke of a lion’s paw is tin) third strongest force in the animal? world. The first is the. blow of g whale’s tail, and the second is tinkick of a giraffe. A bell in a temple in North China has been kept ringing for a' century. A tax is levied in the district for paying' relays of ringers to work incessantly day, and night. The British Empire producer, onethird of the world’s coal, one-ninth of its copper, onc-cighth of its ironq one fifth of its lead, one-ninth of its silver, and one-half of its gold. The Kaiser having been, appointed a captain-general in the Rpanis’? Army, there remains now no European force, military or naval, in which ho does not hold honorary rank. lie possesses at least 15(1 uniforms. The tea used in the. immediate, household of the Emperor of Ghinrj is treated with the utmost care. It 1 is raised in a garden surrounded bjj a wall, so that neither man hoy beast can get anywhere near the plants. In Russia it is not considered proper for a girl to dance a wholes waltz or polka with one partner.. Throe or four men dunce a round or, two each with the same lady, returning her to her original partner at the end of the dance. Waterloo, a town in lowa, has church for which one immense gia-j cial boulder furnished practically ftßj the material. The huge stores before being blasted was 2&ft. high, wide, and 20 ft. thick. It was estimated to weigh 5,J25,0001b. A boy’s hair grows one-half slower than a girl’s, in boys the aver-' age rale of growth is MR. Min. ia six years, being an average of .0183 inch per day. During the 21st and 24 th years a man’s hair grow* quicker than at any other period. Waste-paper from the combined Government offices in London, amounts each day to no less than 15 tons. The paper is taken to a department officially Known us Urn' waste-paper office, and afterwards sent to a mill, when* if is reduced 1 to pulp and made into paper again.' The English woman is (he tallest,’ and the American comes imxi. Tim average height, of the French wornam is oft. lin. The American woman, is nearly two inches taller, and Die women of Great Britain half an inch* taller than their American sisters.. American women, however, weigh slightly more than either of the others, their average weight being about 11711). Gambling in the British Navy, though illegal, is still carried on to a greater extent than is generally imagined. Nor is this surprising, when it. is considered Dial Jack Tut has no means of spending his money while at sea. and thrift is certainly not his great virtue. Betting on games of chance is chiefly favoured, and a [tack ol cards forms one of thfl most cherished possessions of overv 1518.