NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3073, 21 June 1923, Page 7

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

Spain rigidly prohibits the aduJter|tion of olive oil. A needle passes through eighty operations in its manufacture. An elephant usually sleeps only about five hours out of twenty-four. Swallows have been seen at sea over sue thousand miles from land.

The umbrellas which are used by the Koreans are usually covered with oiled paper. The Tsar of Russia is said to own more costly chinawnre than any other monarch in the world. A wounded chimpanzee stops the bleeding of a wound by placing leaves and grass on the injury. The hump of a camel is considered i great delicacy by the Arabs. It is white like veal, but tastes like beef. China is manning a chain of forts all. along her sea coast with Krupp g-uns. Telephone operators in Egypt are required to speak English, French, Italian, Greek, and Arabic.

More than three-fifths of the world'* lupply of copper comes from the American and Mexican mines. A lighthouse constructed of bamboo, which is in use in Japan, is said to have great power of resisting salt water md does not rot like ordinary wood. Before the members of a fire engine wigade can go to a fire in Berlin they must all fall in line in military fashioa md formally salute their captain. Remains have been found in the aliuvial deposits of Madagascar of ostriches, which when alive were fourteen to fifteen feet in hoight. It is estimated that by mere waste, caused by coins rubbing one against mother, the civilised world loses one ton and a quarter of gold and eightytight tons of silver annually.

The use of the surface coat of oxide m aluminium Avire in order to produce insulation for electrical purposes is gaining ground, and the process is no* being applied to copper wire.