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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5516, 24 October 1919, Page 1 (Supplement)

FROM ALL QUARTERS.

The human body has 240 bones. The first typewriter was invented in. 1867. , . A hand, in horse measurement, is four inches. . 3 A fathom, 6ft., is derived from tne height of a full-grown man. Essex County Council is providing a cinema at a lunatic asylum. A woman’s brain reaches its greatest weight about the age of twentyfive, and a man’s ten years later. Elementary education in London costs £ll Is 7d per child per annum, and of that £6 16s 5d goes to the tceichor. The giant airship, R 34, is 639 ft. in length, or 100 ft. longer than Westminster Abbey. Her total weight, however, is less than half that of a railway engine. The Copenhagen police convey any person found intoxicated in the street to his home in a cab, the fare being charged to the establishment where the liquor was servedMr. Lloyd George signed the Peace Treaty with a pen made of gold, bearing an inscription in Welsh. The pen was the gift of Mr. R. Morris, M.P. for North Battersea. Of the 5,700,000,000 packets which pass annually through the post-offices of the United Kingdom, 33,000,000 cannot be delivered / because they are insufficiently or incorrectly addressed. It is not easy to estimate the amount of food consumed by each of us in a year, but one dietetic expert who kept a record of his meals during twelve months declares that he ate 180 loaves of bread, 1801 b. of meat, drank sixty-one gallons of milk, and ate no fewer than 300 '-eggs. • A phonograph has been put to a novel use by seal hunters of the Pacific. A large instrument is employed, and it is set up near the rendezvous of the animals, and soon its music attracts their attention and they lift their heads well above the water. A hunter reports that he has been able to shoot large numbers of them while they are under the spell of the sounds so strange to their ears.