GENERAL INFORMATION.

Waikato Independent, Volume VI, Issue 384, 13 June 1907, Page 6

GENERAL INFORMATION.

Denmark's army-is the cheapest in Europe. It costs only £2l a head,against £llO spent by England. On a rough average, ]o,()00 sovereigns pass over the Bank of England counters .daily. The water is so dear in the fiords of Norway that objects 1A in. in diameter can be distinctly seen at a depth of lb Oft. 'Every inhabitant in London oats IITBII). of potatoes in a year. A Parisian consumes on an average but U)lb. per annum, A ten per cent, lax on theatre tickets in France yields about £2 000, UUU a year ; the money is devoted to the maintaiuauce. of the poor. Medical statistics have established the fact that in winter there are throe times more men than women suffering from cold, neuralgia, tooth* ache, and influenza. A city inhabited by 20.0(H) people IS situated in the crater of the extinct volcano, Aso Sam, near Kumamoto. .Julian. Arround the city aro vertical walls 800 ft. high. I 1 The “China Times," which hails rt'oni the city of Pekin, is printed in .English, French. German, Italian, and Russian, as well as in Chinese and .Japanese. Hives of Siamese mdiltmien cut /heir hair so that it slicks .straight up from their heads. The average length of it is J A in. Sweden and Norway are the only two countries where practically every grown man can read and write,' Bavaria conics next in this respect. 'The total number of lives for the .saving of which the Lifeboat Institution has grained rewards since its establishment in IS 21 has been -11, .380.

Russia with a po) illation of 127, '"HI,000, has only 15,331 physicians. li< the Fnited Slates, with a population of about 75.000,000, there uro. 120,000 physicians. In boring an artesian well in Cali'ornia. charred wood was found at a iepth of 500 feet, and at SHO foot shells and a portion of the shall of tv ird were taken out. In several battles of the Francofnissian War the soldiers ran down to live same watering-place, and then, ■(-'turned to their positions to recoin* uence slaughtering one another. .t bhunters arc most, liable to injury if any class of railway Workers. One n twelve is injured in a year. Of -aationmasters. only one in 617 ij mrt in the same time. By means of a camera the wink of in .eyelid has been measured, and it .vas found that twenty winks can b» iiade in four seconds. A Spitzbcrgen is one of the few count-, ■ies as yet unclaimed by any nation.; Anyone may dig the ctsal found in/ he cliffs there. * The inhabitants of France insuro; .nore heavily against, fire than any„; ither nation. Compared to Great; Britain and Russia, the total amountj insured for averages at £66 per in-. Habitant for France, £39 for Great 1 Britain, and £1 for Russia. i