INTERESTING ITEMS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 17, 2 March 1917, Page 8

INTERESTING ITEMS.

-— , Horseflesh in Germany sometime* fetches 7d. a pound.

About 10,0001 b. of eiderdown is collected annually in Iceland, -7,0001b. being exported to foreign countries. Formerly the peasants used to receive over 21s. per pound for it, but the price has now fallen, to half that amount.

Near the Bermudas the sea is extremely transparent, so that fishermen can readily see the horns ol lobsters protruding from their hidingplaces in the rocks at a considerable depth. To entice the crustaceans from their crannies they tie a lot of snails In a ball and dangle them in front of the cautious lobster.

The two eggs laid by a Pigeo® almost invariably produce male and female. Some curious experiments as to which of the eggs produces th* male and which the female have re- j suited in showing that the first egg laid is the female and the second the male.

In Russia, when coffins are covered with cloth, the colour of the covering is, to a certain extent, distinctive, pink being used when the deceased is a child or a young' person, crimson for women, and brown foe widows j'but black is in no caae «ar ployed.

Quebec's forest lands cover an a*we of over, a hundred million acres.

The highest amount granted in one irdinnrv- it land ‘ mev order is fifft.