NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 331, 17 July 1914, Page 1

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

£ Over 4.000,000 pens are destroyed daily.

France has the most expensive Parliament. It costs £300,000 a year.

In Greece a person sentenced to death is not executed till two years have passed.

Telephone operators in Egypt are required t@ speak English, French, Italian, Greek, and Arabic.

In Norway people who are not vaccinated are not allowed to vote at an election.

At birth the pulse of a normal individual beats 136 times a minute; at the age of 30, 70 times.

In Switzerland every citizen, whether he is a householder or not, is entitled to a vote on attaining tho age of twenty.

Camels are fit to work at five years old, but their strength begins to decline at twentyfive, although they usually live to forty.

Chloroform, the great anaesthetic, was discovered by Guthrie in 1831, and was first employed in surgical operations in 1847.

Beforg a fire brigade can start for a fire in Berlin the members must aft fall in line in military fashion and salute their captain.

London’s 1-16 square miles is owned by 32,000 individuals." Only 700 people own 5 acres or more, and 14,000 own) only the houses in which they live.

A lighthouse of bamboo, which is in. uso in Japan, is said to have great power in resisting the waves, and does hot rot like ordinary wood.

The debris left from coral made into articles of jewellery, etc., is crushed, scented, and sold as tooth-powder at a high price by Indian perfumers.

No other Sovereign in the world has so many physicians as the Czar. They number twenty-five, and are all selected from among the medical celebrities of Russia.

A new printing, gumming, and perforating machine in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington turns out a mile of finished postage stamps every five minutes.

Men and women are political equals in Iceland. The nation numbers seventy thousand people, and is governed by representatives elected by men and women together.

The .highest waterfall in. the world is Cholock Cascade, at Yosemite, California, which is two thousand six hundred and thirty-four feet high, or si* feet short of half a mile.

Portugal was formerly known as Lusitania. The present name is derived from Port Callo, tho ancient name of the town now known to us as Oporto.

The State of Pennsylvania has passed a law requiring prospective brides and bridegrooms to answer forty-eight questions relating to their mental and' physical condition before a marriage licence is issued.

In Germany, when the vote of the jury stands six against six, the prisoner is acquitted. A vote of seven against five leaves tho decision to the and in a vote of eight against fourthe prisoner is convicted.;

A better method than that of ex-j posing formaldehyde in shallow plates; in order to kill flies is to sprinkle ai mixture of formaldehyde, milk, and ; water in tiny pools of from a quarter of an inch in diameter on the floors,’ shelves, tables, eto., when the (ftied ireadily drink it.