New, Odd and Interesting.

Waipa Post, Volume IX, Issue 432, 16 July 1915, Page 1

New, Odd and Interesting.

The deer really weeps, its eyes being provided with lachrymal glands.

The United States has a coast line of 5,715 miles to defend.

Brass is the best reflector of heat of any metal.

The ashes of burnt corks make fine. black paint. 1

Professional etiquette prevents French judges and judicial officials from riding in omnibuses. j

It is believed that a diet of oin bread makes bigger men, physically, than bread made of wheat flour.

A book bound in leather made from human skin was sold in a Berlin auction room for £8 15s. j

Barely one-seventh of the population of the British Empire is composed of white men. .

Plaster of Paris is so called from having, been first obtained from Montmartre, Paris. I

Tobacco was successfully grown in England prior to 1684, when an Act was passed forbidding its cultivation.

It is asserted that the purest air in cities is found about twenty-five feet above the street surface. ;

Gray horses are the longest lived. Creams are usually delicate, and are seriously affected by very warm weath-

The hair on the heads of most of the hundreds of thousands of dolls exhibited in shop windows is obtained from the Angora goat. , ,1

Amber is supposed in Turkey to be a specific against the evil effects of nicotine. All Turkish pipes have amber mouth-pieces. j

Great Britain carries on more trade with Germany than with any other sountry. Prance and the United States are her next best customers. ,i

Private bull-fights are occasionally given by the very rich people in Madrid, and guests are invited to them as they would be to a dinner.

Every year about 280,000 conscripts are added to the Russian army. In times of peace it numbers 1,000,000 men, and is the largest standing army in existence.

The rocking-chair is suggested as a' remedy for indigsstion. A well-known physician asserts that the slow rocking motion after meals stimulates the digestive functions. /

At an aristocratic restaurant ' in London no woman is permitted to occupy a seat at table after four o'clock in the afternoon until she has taken off her hat; /

A new fad in the use of scents is noted in Russia. To give the human body an agreeable odour, any desirable floral essence is injected into the veins.

A law recently passed in Norway makes girls ineligible for matrimony unless they can show certificates of skill in cooking, knitting and spin* ning.

The smoking of hams, sausages, &c, is accomplished by one meat concern in Baltimore in a smoke-house heated by gas, which is said -to be a new departure.

The Russians are manufacturing a fabric from the fibre of a filamentous stone from Siberian mines which is said to be of so durable a nature that it is practically indestructible. The ma-' terial is soft to the touch and pliable in the extreme, and when soiled only to be placed in a fire to be made clean. " '