NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

Waipa Post, Volume VIII, Issue 364, 6 November 1914, Page 1

NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

The weight of lin. of rainfall on an acre of land exceeds 100 tons. In the reign of Charles 11. the burning of coal was accounted a public nuisance Analysts say that butter is the most nutritious article of diet, and that bacon comes next.

In Egypt telephone operators are required to speaS English, French, Italian, Greek, and Arabic.

The Chinese calendar is"most complicated. Their have 60 years, each year, month, and day bearing a separate name.

Chicago recently passed a by-law requiring all windows in tall office buildings to be so adjusted as to be washable from the inside.

The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 beats a minute; in manhood 70; at 60 years, 60. The pulse of females is more frequent than that of males.

The wild horses of Arabia will not admit a tame horse among them, while the wild horses of South America endeavour to decoy domesticated horses from their masters, and seem eager to welcome them.

An instrument resembling a watch has been invented in Hungary by the aid of which it is possible instantly to compute the interest at any rate on any given sum of money for any length of time.

In Brittany and the Lower Pyrenees fairs are held annually, at which the peasant girls assemble and sell their hair. Parisian dealers are the chief customers, purchasing very large quantities.

Earthquakes are subterranean disturbances propagated through the earth in a series of elastic waves. How they originate is not clearly known. Many are associated with volcanic action, while just as many occur without any evidence of such association.

It is said by some authorities that artesian wells have a daily succession of ebb and flow, like the ocean tides, only the process is reversed. The times of greatest flow of an artesian well is the period of low tide in the ocean.

Indiarubber was used for the first time as an eraser in 1770, when a very small piece was sold for three marks. It was however many years later before it was put into /general use. Prior to this the crhmb of bread was used for erasing purposes.

Females, as well as males, smoke In Japan. The girls usually begin when they are about 10 years of age. When a lady desires to show a gentleman a special mark of favour she lights her pipe, takes a few whiffs, and then passes it to him.

It is estimated that if the forests of the earth were completely stocked and- scientifically worked they would yield annually the full equivalent to from thirty to one hundred and twenty times the present consumption of coal.

The Czar of Russia probably owns a greater quantity of china than any other person in the world. He has the china belonging to all the Russian rulers as far back as Catherine the Great. It is stored in the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg.

There are still hermits in Italy who live solitary lives in mountain caves, and they number no fewer than nine hundred and ninety. Among these recluses there are sixteen who are over ninety-five years of age and three centenarians, while all the others have passed the age of fifty.