GENERAL INFORMATION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 41, 21 May 1907, Page 2

GENERAL INFORMATION.

| Tlio first armoured train was uwi" at tlio EXMgc of Paris in 1871. * In Denmark girls insure against becoming old maids. | __.j | Like cholera, influenza alwayi travels from cast to west. * The eucalyptus uheds its bark instead of its leaves. j .j . | At Kingston, Jamaica, all the coaling of ships is performed by ,*omen. __* Black troops were used by tin French against the Germans in th« war of 1871. * • Butterflies havo been noticed in th« Andes up to heights of very nearly 27,000 feet. In the Franco-German war Germany mobilised an army of 500,000 men in a fortnight. * In forest land fifty per cent, more rain soaks into the ground than in open country. * Krupp's is the largest workshop In the world. Its area is fully one thousand acres. * „ The. i oro about 185 inhabited Bru.sh Isles, of whtoh Scotland claims ovor one hundred. * [ The bloodiest war on rocord waa the Amencon Civil i%r. The North lost 200,t0> men, and the Soutn 51«\00i.. *— Some co j<r flrest victories wer* won b\ troops wi.o \\«.-e practically Oorunta, Taiwera, am' Inkerman ai\ instr noes in point, Washington is practically the only rntiv-v; capital has no slums at all, out Berlin runs it close in this respoct. * _ Quite 90 per cent, of Natal boys can ride and shoot well. The Colony trains its youth better than any o&er British colony. ' _♦]« ! London is the btSt. Army recruiting ground ; Birmingham and the NorthWestern district comes next. ' 'vpjpool is one of the poorest of great centra of population. In all rijfht-l.and.Ml persons, tha strength of the left hen 1 is found by Professor Caster, a I rench physiologist, to be about nine-tenths of that of the H;'ht hand. Qui e curiously, the movement of supination, or turning the palm up'wards by rotating the forearm, is more powerful than the opposite pronation, or turning the palm down by outward rotation.

T*ie common flea is now suspected, o' .-*ui».ng many germ diseases. In ltw rrjiiKl States, it is thought that V-n.sv 's due to the little pest, anrf i« U Pioposed to establish an inr qu ry on a large scale to dlamw w»*« part, if any, tho flea pi*|S to the dissemination both o(