NEW, OLD, INTERESTING.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 330, 14 July 1914, Page 1

NEW, OLD, INTERESTING.

$ "['lst: Bank of England destroys about o;.>0,000 of its notes every week. No school ia Canada can receive the Government grant unless the Union J..;k is hoisted every morning. Analysis say that butter is the most 'lutrilious article of diet, and that ccon comes next. The forests in India under Governnent control bring in a net profit to the Slate of ever £150,030. Germany is able to feed about ninetenths of her nearly 00,000,000 inhabitants on the products of her own soil, The Lr.iiiic over London Bridge averages daily i. : >.) : 0.)0 pedestrians and ;i0 : 00,i '. chicles. One tost for distinguishing diamond, 1 ' from glass and paste is to touch them with the longue. The diamond feels much the colder. Spain has mora sunshine than any country in Europe. The yearly average is 3,000 hours. In England if is 1.400. A law recently passed in Norway makes girls ineligible for matrimony unless they can show certificates of skill in eoo'iing, knitting, and spinning. The most w.nguinary of modern batulcs was p;o';:\b!y that of th-.< .Mosk'owa, in 131 J, when .of the 130,000 French 30,000 wore lost, and of the 140,000 Russians, 00,000. Probably the sim'pL-st court livery in the werki in that worn in the royal palace of Korea. The Emperor's servants are all dressed in garments and It lias been calculated that nearly 300,000,000 foe!, or over 55,000 miles, of liliH are used up yearly to satisfy the world's demand for moving pictures. A school for nursemaids lias been established in Boston, U.S.A They are instructed in the'care of children, and have to prepare food and simple remedies for the little ones. America has now scores of depots where an umbrella can be hired for 3d. by anyone overtaken by rain minus this useful article. These umbrellas are so well market! that, thorn is no fear of the dishonest making off with them. You hire at one point, and may return the article at any of the depots convenient to you. The ordinary microscope reveals objects of the size of a thousandth of a millimetre, or a twenty-five thousandth of an inch. But the improvements lately made by Sicdentopf and Zsigmondy have lowered this limit very much. These inventors concentrate on the field the direct rays of the sun, and thus render visible particles whose diameter is only one to five milliouths of a millimetre. There is a peculiar person on the staff of some of the Japanese newspapers, known as the "dummj editor," whose sole duty it is to go to jail in the interests of the journal. Whenever a paper publishes something unfriendly to the Government it is suppressed and the "dummy editor", sent to prison, vhile the real editor simply changes die name of the paper and continues to publish it as before. A St. Louis hanker has invented what he calls the ideal tipping system. Ho never gives a tip direct to the per : son whose services please him. He finds out his name and address and opens a deposit account at his own bank with the amount he would have given. He adds to the account regularly, and one waitress at a restaurant where he lunches is now the owner of a large nest-egg.