NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 325, 23 June 1914, Page 1

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

Hico paper is never made of rice.

The population of the world is nearly 1,500 millions.

Apricots are very plentiful and in great variety in China.

There are 13,000 different kinds of postage stamps in the world.

The term “hand, 1 ! used in measuring horses, means four inches.

In Persia, cutting the hair is a sign of mourning.

People - with weak hearts should never take hot baths.

Storm warnings were first used in Holland in 1860.

As fasters, the sect of Jains, in India, are far ahead of all rivals.

No one can hrcatho at a greater \ height than seven miles from the earth,

Tho Indian rhinoceros has the thickest skin of any quadruped.

Salmon can travel in the water at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour.

Some Chicago burglars have monkeys trained to enter bedrooms and steal jewellery.

In China, when a pupil is reciting his lesson, ho turns his back to his teacher. Vegetarians claim that hair grows less luxuriantly on tho heads of meateaters. Two-thirds of all the tonnage of all tho merchant navies afloat belong to the Anglo-Saxon nations. Beethoven became deaf, and long before his death could not even hear the drums in the orchestra. Germany is able to feed about ninetenths of her nearly 60,000,000 inhabitants on the products of her own soil. A paper chimney 50ft. high, and fireproof, is a curiosity to be seen at Breslau, Germany.

The first degree of doctor of medicine (was given in England in 1209, that of doctor of music in 1463.

The Chinese have an academy of manners that prescribes etiquette for tho whole empire.

Influenza is so named because the epidemic is supposed to have been caused by the planets.

The French law treats the frog as if it were a fish, and declares all fishing for it by night to be poaching.

Tho Egyptians used gold as money at a very early hut unknown period, but first in tho form of rings, which opened and could bo strung together.

Eminent medical authorities assert that the sudden immersion of the bodyj in cold water soon after meals is extremely dangerous.

Tho first printers used to print only on one side of a page, and then pasted together the two blank pages to give the impression of one leaf.

, The sound of a hell, which can ho heard 45,000 feet through the water, can be heard through the air only 456 feet.

The largest insect in the world is the “elephant beetle,” of Venezuela, a fullgrown one weighing nearly half a pound.

A Russian is not of age until hi is, twenty-six years old. Until that time at least four-fifths of his earnings must go to his parents