The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-07-07
Odd And Interesting


Honolulu has 40 miles of paved
Streets..d lliFsN'Af .NH
Without wasps, hg trees would not
produce fruit. n $3.50 mi9'7
I The present population on Brazil is
one fourth that of the United States.
In iceland, goldfish are dried and
ground into -four for use IN making
bread. ntf 81
Asbestos thread can be spun SO
fine that it takes about $4,000 feet to
weigh pound
! A farmer or Mills county. Iowa
gains to have killed 739 rats In little
more than d month,
The war added ten million to the
list of smokers, In France, according
to the statement OF French econo.
mis-. so4 1of
! Among every 1000 bachelors there
arc 50 criminals while among married
men The ratio is'only lS'bet 1000.
A new letter.stamp' ng machine
mostens the envelope instead OF the
stamps. and cah attach 1000 stamps
in an hou
The coral roads OF Bermuda are a.
mong the finest in the world. They
are as smooth as dance floor and are
never dirty
Few plants win grow under a yew
and the ash tree Is considered very
Injurious to vegetables growing in its
shade,
OF twelve dear and dumb" beggars
recently arrested in Paris, eleven
wre found to be in fun possession of
= the faculties of speech aud hearing.
; The steamer "Pere Marquette. "
which has been lying at depth of
SIX hundred feet on the bottom of Lake
Michigan since 1910, Is to be raised
Q in the near future ~
r In india lizards are hunted for their
skins. The skins when tanned are
q made into women's and cldldren's
shoes purses aud handbags, and are
exported. -, ~
g The jewish Feast of the Passover
! Is the oldest religious celebration
! Known to mankind. It had it's birth
: ON the banks OF the Nile 1000 years
ago In the twilight of history.
r Probably In no country of the
world are fish more largely consumed
than in Burma Fish either fresh or
l iried, or in the form OF fish paste, is
, a concomitant of every Burmese meal.
3 Cypress has the reputation of being
: the most durable OF woods. II was
much used by the ancients, and was
{ employed in the original doors OF st.
Peters, at Rome, which, on being re.
moved after COO years. were found to
be perfectly free from decay.
lluc-eyed cats are invariably deaf.
] Some forms of seaweed contain as
: much as 80 per cent OF sugar.
The Duke OF Northumberland draws
. labont 100000 year in mining royal
4 ties.
London omnibuses on recent holt.
j day carried more than 100000 pass.
4 lengers.
J Absinthe was at first used by the
French only as a flavor for other bey.
z erages.
y Drugs ana toilet preparations have
A been discovered IN tombs dating back
y to 1000 y. c.
4 Canada has a large railway mile
q aye IN proportion to population than
u any other country
a an ex.onlcer Of the British army
y claims to be the only bind chartered
4 accountant in the world
a Fifty thousand miles of navigablo
y water is provided by the Amazon
A river ana its tributaries.
4 The Great Pyramid named after an
II Egypsim king. Cheops, Is estimated
4 to contain about 100000 blocks oil
d stone.
a Jely0sh float about in the water
Y hut cannot direct their course. Thus
they are at the mercy of whatever
z current takes them.
y There Is a French railway which pre-
= vents kissing upon It's premises. and
: similar rule exists upon the State