FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3376, 2 March 1920, Page 7

FROM ALL QUARTERS.

A moderate trickle of water from an ordinary tap will waste 150 gallons a day, or 54,750 gallons in a year.

It requires more than a century for a cellar tree to grow large enough to yield a thirty-foot telephone pole.

In Russia an unmarried woman remains under the absolutes way of her parents until her death, regardless of her age.

A Marylebone barber rhaves his customers without using brushes or soap. "Brushes are dity, and soap removes the natural oils which protect the skin from germs," is a notice in his shop.

The privilege accorded to the soldier of buying himself out of the Army has always been recognised in times of peace. In Wellington's day, when enlistment was for life, discharge by purchase cost £SO. Later, this was reduced to £2l, and later still to £lB.

Although not yet nineteen years of age, a youth who left Leighton Buzzard workhouse to go on the training ship Exmouth became chief petty officer and sub-instructor of wireless in 1914, and is now a wireless operator in the Malay States at £250 a year.

The Vatican library is the most sumptuously housed of all libraries, and contains some of the rarest manuscripts in existence. The printed books include over 2,500 volumes issued in the fifteenth century, many of them vellum copies. The library is said to contain over 220,000 volumes and 30,000 manuscripts.