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Show Strange Facts I Unstable Pound I Odd Chicken Coops I I ' Mti Sworn In C In some parts of China, weight instead of price of food fluctuates with market conditions. For example, ex-ample, a housewife always pays the same price for rice, but she gets a "big pound" when it is plentiful and "a little pound" when it is scarce. sss C Such places as old city warehouses, ware-houses, factories, breweries, hotels ho-tels and churches provide housing for more than 40,000,000 egg-laying chickens in tiers of individual cages equipped with feed, water and egg-transportation troughs. For instance, a $1,000,000 Florida hotel that failed a short time ago is now a "chicken coop" with 60,-000 60,-000 caged hens. 5SSF" C. Horses have been known to die from seasickness, female apes have grieved themselves to death over the loss of a baby and human beings have developed such intense in-tense melancholia from homesickness homesick-ness that it has proved fatal. SS25 C When witnesses are sworn in the law courts of Germany, all other persons in the room, Including Includ-ing the judges, likewise rise and raise their right hand. Collier's. |