Frozen Facts.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 4253, 29 June 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

Frozen Facts.

Man attains his maximum weight at 40. Some butterflies lay over 100,000 eggs. Four-fifths of the sugar plantations in Hawii are owned by Americans. It is claimed that at present the English language is spoken by 115,000,000 people. The Tartars take a man by the ear to invite him to eat and drink with them. In olden times screws were made by hand, and five minutes -were spent in makiiig one. Now a machine rattles out 60 in a minute. The principle of trial by jury was inaugurated in 468 — every accused person to be tried only by his equals. A Chinese lady spends her time in embroidering shoes, in card and domino playing, in lounging in garden-houhes, in gossiping with her female friends and amahs, and in smoking occasionally. Germany has 5,000,000 depositors in Bavings banks ; France, 4,150,000 ; Great Britain, '3,750,000 ; Italy, 1,970,000 ; Austria, 1,850,- ; Switzerland, 1,600,000 ; Sweden and •Norway, 1,570,000. ; The barber's art in Europe dates from the time of Alexander the Great, b.o. 330. He ordered every soldier to shave, lest the beard should give a handle to their enemies. : Spaebows are very much like 6ome human beings. They have so much curiosity that ■they will gaze at their plumage in mirrors by the hour if not disturbed. The total quantity of fish (excluding shellfish) landed on the coasts of England and Wales in 1893 was 390,000 tons, of the declared value of £4,827,300. [ A new form of competition has arisen in Germany, where prizes are now given for the best turn-out in the way of babies in their perambulators witlrtheir nurses. The prizes are given for the best baby, for the best perambulator, and for the best nurse. In the Isle of Man there is a lingering superstition that to carry salt in the pocket is a help to good fortune ; and to exchange or accept salt is so good an omen that a beggar has been known to decline food unless salt was added to the gift. The bottom of the Pacific between Hawaii and California is paid to be so level that a railroad could bo laid for 500 miles without altering the grade anywhere. This fact was discovered by the United States surveying vessel engaged in making soundings with the view of laying a cable. There is to be seen in the National Museum at Washington a large sheet of plate-glass, once a window in a lighthouse on Cape Cod. During a severe storm of not above 40 hours' duration this became on its exposed surface so ground from the impact of grains of sand, blown against it as to bo no