NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 338, 7 August 1914, Page 1

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

All the world's greatest tunnels are to be found in Europe. The longest Is the Simplon, twelve and a naif mHea In length.

Colonel Benjamin Holmes, of Summit, New York, claims to have used one razor for 63 years. He estimates he has shaved himself with it 11,024 times.

Pir will grow at as great an altitude as 6,700 feet above sea level, yellow pine at 6,200, ash at 4,800 feet, and oak at 3,350 feet. The vine ceases to grow at about 2,300 feet.

The milk of a single Roquefort sheep will in a year provide from thirty to forty pounds of cheese. In that district of France there are about eight thousand sheep devoted to the cheese industry.

The greatest age which any species of insect has been known to attain is 15 years. This feat was accomplished by an ant which had been tenderly cared for by a naturalist for that length of time.

Among the Alps there are several post-offices at a height of 6,000 ft. or 7,000 ft One letter-box, from which the postman makes four collections daily, is nearly 10,000 ft. above ths sea-level.

There are in the 21 university towns of Germany 3,436 enrolled women students and 1,037 not enrolled. The faculty of medicine attracts most women, with 790 students. Threequarters of the women students come from Prussia..

Water from King Solomon's "Sealed Fountain," seven miles from Jerusalem, is conveyed to the city through modern iron pipes part of the way, and the remainder of the distance by an ancient sluiceway known as Solomon's Aqueduct.

According to an estimate, about three-fourths of the £2,000,000 it costs to build a modern first-class battleship is distributed in wages and salaries, and some 15,000 employees obtain a living through the building of such a ship.

The following are stated to be the largest incomes in Germany:—The Emperor, £1,100,000; Frau Bertha Krupp, over £000,000; Prince Henckel, £600,000; the Duke von Ujest, £300,000; and Herr Ziese, shipbuilder and landowner, about the same.

One of the fattest men on record died in Califoinia a few weeks ago. lis name was George Comsto-ck, and je was well-kncwn in he circus profession, where his weight of 4081 b., or 29st 21b., conferred celebrity on him. It took 12 men to carry him to the motor car in which he was conveyed to the hospital when .he was taken ill.

Many old houses in Holland have a special door which is never opened save on two occasions—when there is a marriage or a death in the family. The bride and bridegroom enter by this door; it is then nailed or barred up until a death occurs, when it is opened, and the body removed by this exit.

A clock constructed throughout of glass is the result of six years' work on the part of a Bavarian glass polisher. The plates and pillars which form the framework are of glass, and are bolted together with glass screws. The dial-plate, hands, shafts, and cogwheels are of glass, and glass wedges and pins are used for fastening the various parts of the running gear together. Like the clock itself, the keyby which it is.wound is of glass. The construction of the remarkable timepiece was a matter of infinite pains. Some of the parts had to be made as many as forty times before a clock UiaiL.would go could be produced.