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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3533, 25 May 1912, Page 10

Lambeth Guardians, wlio recently] bought a cork leg for a domestic servant. have agreed .to purchase, a wig for a bald-headed poor law schoolgirl, so that she can go out to work as a servant. It is estimated that a locomotive with ten coaches must travel live miles before it can attain a speed of sixty miles an hour. Going at mat speed the air brake will stop the train m 700 ft. In China the inhabitants are counted every year in a curious manner. The oldest master of every 10 houses has to count the families, and make a list, which is sent to the Imperial taxhouse. The longest canal in the world is in Russia. It extends from iSt. Petersburg to the frontier of China and its total length is close upon 4-300 miles. 'The baya bird of India has the curious habit- of fastening fireilies to its nest witfii moist clay. On a dark night such a nest might be taken for an electric lamp - , Over 40,000 certificates and 3500 prizes have been awarded to children in the London County Council schools for Scripture knowledge at the annual examinations. .In Java there is an orchid, the grammatopliyllum, all the flowers of which open at once, as if by the stroke of a- fairy wand, and they also wither together. A Bill has boon introduced in the Assembly at Albany, N.Y., compelling hotel-keepers to use sheets notless, than 9ft long, wide enough to reach across the bed. A clock in St- Petersburg, has 95 face's, indicating simultaneously the time at 30 different spots on the earth’s surface, besides the movement of the earth and planets. A well-known scientist’s theory for perfect physical condition is as follows: Exercise ■ moderately and temperately for a- short time at the same I‘elative hour every day of your life.. Russia’s Cross of St. Andrew has a remarkable peculiarity attaching t-o it. All- who are decorated - with it have the right once to demand a pardon for a Russian subject condemned. to death. -