Bits Of Knowledge

The brain of an idiot contsins much less phosphorus than that of a person of average mental powers. A clever Parisian has invented a machine which can split one. human hair lengthwise into thirty-six strips. Over 500 fossil elephant teeth nav. been dredged from the sea at Mol on the coast of the Mediterrancan, since 1870. It is said that tortoise shell combsi chain. and other objects, when broten, can be repaired by heating the opposing surface and pressing them together. The highest spot inhabited by human beings on this globe is the Buddhist cloister of Hanle, ïhibet, where twenty-one men live at an altitude ol 16,000 feet. The prime of life of a man of regular habita and sound constitution is from thirty to fifty-flve years of age; of a woman, from twenty-four or twenty-five to about forty years of age. A petrified fish found by Dr. Newberry, of Delaware, Ohio, weighed 25 pounds, and is as perfect in form, po"sition or flns, scales, etc, as though it had died bui yesterday instead of 2,000 years ago. During the reign of James I. Bngland's first newspaper was bom, May, 1622, being the first issue of the Weekly News. Notwithstanding that it was ill received, its editor, Nathaniel Butler, lived bythe business for eighteen years. A Swedish mile is the longest mile in the world. A traveter in Sweden when told that he is only about a mile from a desired point would better hire a horee, for the distance he tvíII have to walk, if he chose in hls ignorante to adopt that mode of travel, is exactly 11,700 yards.