Show f l Q ts o of Interest I Cuba is one of the landlords of ot off ott t t f States Slates The Guantanamo area Is lease leased from J from Cuba at t an anant anan- anan an- an t f nual rental of ot 2000 2000 Augustus tb the second of the Ceaf Cea- Cea f oars cars is responsible for the naming of the month of August The postal card was tas introduced in Inthe the United States Jn 1873 4 Special delivery of mall mail in the thet t United States States- dates from 1385 London's inhabitants men women wom wom- t en and children to took Ok an average of bus tubo tube and tram rides durf during dur dur- f ing 1928 1928 4 Were ere It not for tor a a. keen sense bense of ot sight ight the bee would wo ld have haV a difficult f tl i time in beeline b f for r home after r being loaded with honey tt t Venus has no mooil moon so 50 far as has been b learned and it has not been j 9 1 possible to determine the length of ot its da day The TIle tropical 3 year jear ear contains r mean solar days dayS' 5 hours 18 48 minutes minutes minutes min min- utes 46 seconds second Tile The housefly has has' both compound I and single eyes ejes The compound K eyes eyes' jes are aie used for far vision at a dis dis- tance of one one- or two yards Bet Between Be Be- e- e t tween een- een the compound eyes yes es are three Tingle ingle eyes ejes Which are used for far seeing see see- ing objects only a a. Inches few f few inches away The Arctic 1 ptarmigan and the snow now wl owl have a a. winter plumage so 30 white as to be all aU but invisible ag against th the background Northern hare and the w weasel sel turn white when where winter comes particularly arly In the more northern latitudes I Every hour of the day and nd night ev even n children throughout England Englan and and Wales Vales under 1 j year ear of ot age die F four Forty years ago tl there ore was nota not a. a single steel framed office in America The first one was wai erected in 1886 The average human heart beats lIb About tit times limes every tv ent twenty twenty- four a r h hours urs In Japan Ih live li birds aro are liberated tc 1 from a. a a. a pasteboard a-pasteboard cage e to christen v ships t There are about acres s in Ameri American an devoted voted to the cultivation of tobacco tobacco- It Is estimated that the world of tobacco acreage a. a co is over 4 acres p. p The he legislative assembly re recently celebrated a its thousandth tb birthday It is said to tobe tot t be e th the of oldest of the parliaments Tobacco imports in the British Isles l last st year totaled over oer 95 9 95 p People of ot Great Britain bought pianos last year sear Orf the upper air air currents attain a a. a Velocity of from to ta miles a an hour Living organisms organisms' 1 have e a ae e been found fo in oil brine at more mare than feet reet beneath the surface of ot the i earth carth I Influenza germs are not visible Under kinder an ordinary microscope Each group of f fifty persons in an nn audience or cr congregation atlan gives off oft he heat t equivalent to that of an un average average aver aver- age ago size steam radiator Each compound eye of a common housefly has hundreds of tiny he a form tubes and a nerve pigment at atthe atthe t the base o of ot each tube each having havinga a 8 double convex cornea over it it The number of Indians in the United States States' at the taking of the tho federal census census census' In 1910 was Portions of ot Berlin BerUn rise and fan fall as the level of underground waters fluctuates Insects have no noses but breathe through their skins It was ne near the close of ot the century that firecrackers were first us used d to celebrate Independence Independence Independence Inde Inde- da day da July 4 4 |