NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 336, 31 July 1914, Page 1

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

There is 281bs. of bloodwn the body of an average grown-up person.

There are 62 miles of tunnels in the fortified rock of Gibraltar.

An inch of rain is equal to 100 tons of water to an acre.

Naturalists say that a single swallow will devour 6,000 flies in a day.

The Chinese have a superstitious horror of being caught in the rain.

There is no European country in which women clerks are more em ployed than in France.

The oldest known artesian well was sunk at Lillers, in France, in the twelfth century.

About one-sixteenth of the paper output of the world is converted into books.

In Western Persia there is a race of pigmy camels, five feet in height and snow-white in color.

The deepest colliery in the world is at Lambert, in Belgium—3,soo feet deep.

Oak, ebony, and mahogany are the three best-known woods which are heavier than water.

Beggars in China are taxed, and have certain districts allotted to them in which to make appeals for charity.

The longest artificial watercourse in the world is the Bengal Canal, 900 miles in length.

St. Peter’s at Rome will accommodate 54,000 persons, Milan Cathedral 37,000 persons, and St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 25,000 persons.

At Schonbrunn, the Austrian Emperor’s palace, is the finest collection of orchids in tlie world. There are about 18,000 plants.'.

Color-blindness is, curiously enough, found mainly among the educated classes, of whom no fewer than 4 per cent, have this defect.

In Labrador there are dogs so fierce that a heavy log of wood is their necks to make them less dangerous to men and to weaker dogs.

The income tax is levied in India on all incomes of £33 and upwards, and then only one man in 700 comes within its scope.

. While repairing a temple the Chinese coyer up the eyes of the idols, that the dieties may not be offended at the sight of the disorder.

England has 11,500 ships engaged in foreign trade, Germany over 2,000, Japan nearly 1,000, while, the United States has only nine ships so engaged.

The average length of life is greater in Norway than in any other country. This is attributed to the fact that the temperature is cool and uniform throughout the year.

The lowest human habitation is said to be that of the coal miners in Bohemia, some of whom make their dwellings at a point over 2,000 feet below the level of the sea.

When the Grand Duchess Olga, the Czar’s eldest daughter, was born, £1,000,000 was settled on her, and it is said that this huge sum was safely invested in British and French securities.

A pen nib is a little thing, yet there is more steel used in the manufacture of nibs than in all the sword and gun factories in the world. A ton of steel produces about 1,500,000 pens. ,