NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

Waipa Post, Volume VIII, Issue 345, 1 September 1914, Page 1

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

Milliners do not prosper in Mexico. Nearly every woman in that country goes bareheaded.

An American can-making factory produces 42,000 different kinds of tin articles in a year.

Among every 100 Q bachelors there are 38 criminals,, while among married men the ratio is only 18 per 1000.

At Quito, the only city in the world on the line of the equator, the sun sets and rises at six oclock the year round.

The Chinese have a god for every disease, even for childhood’s afflictions, like the mumps and measles.

Men attending the pans in salt works are never known to have cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever, or influenza.-

When it is completed, the great Siberian Railway will be the longest in the world.

During last year 41,620 book's were published in Japan, whilst Germany, the most bookish of European nations, had only 31,281 volumes to her credit.

The heaviest motor truck yet constructed has been introduced in the French army. With its trailer, it has a carrying capacity of twenty tons.

Asphalt was known to the ancients, and is said to have been employed as a binder in masonry by the Babylonians.

A recently invented safe that will float in case of shipwreck is a steel cylinder divided into two compartments, one air-tight, the other to hold valuables.

Meat inspectors in Berlin are employing the cinematograph in their work. They produce enlarged photographs which show micro-organisms in motion if the meat is diseased.

The black apes of Guinea have long silky hair, and their fur is used for muffs and capes. During the last eight years one million seventy-five thousand skins have been shipped to Paris.

Thirty-two years ago women were admitted to the Massachusetts Bar to practise as lawyers on an equality with men. To-day of the two thousand eight hundred lawyers in the Boston Directory only sixty are women.

There has recently been erected in Galveston a five-storey concrete building, the concrete being made of oystershells from the reefs of Galveston. This material is said to be better and cheaper than concrete made with gravel.

The moisture of the eye is a strong solvent. Many persons have gone to bed troubled with a foreign substance in the eye and have awakened in the morning to find it gone. In many cases of this kind the foreign matter has been dissolved by the moisture of the eye.

In Berlin the firemen wear waterjackets with a double skin, which they are able to fill with water from the hose. If the space between the two layers becomes overfilled the water escapes through a valve at the top of the helmet, and flows down over the fireman like a cascade, protecting bim doubly. 1

The origin of the salt in the sea is usually attributed to the constant washing of salts from the land by rain and rivers, and the gradual depositing of them in the sea through evaporation. In every one hundred parts of sea-water there are about two and a half parts of salt. It has been computed that there are four and a half million cubic miles of rock salt in the oceans—fourteen and a half times the bulk of the Continent of Europe above high-water mark. The Atlantic is much salter than the other oceans.