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ODDS AND ENDS FROM EVERYWHERE Tliere are 550000 more hien than women in Canada CanadaThe The raising of stags for their horns is a curious Chinese industry the horns being cut while soft each year and used in the manufacture of medi ¬ cine cineWhen When a man walks a mile he takes on an aver ¬ age 2203 steps but when lie rides an average gear lie covers a mile with an equiva ¬ lent of only 027 steps stepsIn In 1919 7025 new books and 909 new editions were published in America in all 8591 Britains output amounted to 7327 new books and 1295 new editions in all 8022 or twentyeight liiore than America AmericaChina China exports tea in solid lumps like bricks for consumption in Tibet and Siberia The tea leaves are pulverized mixed with water and molded into hard cakes The bricks weigh about five pounds each In this form tea can be carried overland more easily as it occupies much less space The cost of the Prince of Wales Canadian tour 25000 is modest compared with the expendi ¬ ture involved in some previous royal journeys King Georges visit lo India cost nearly 1250060 King Kdwards visit as Prince of Wales to India in 1S75 cost 1500000 1500000Tattooing Tattooing in some countries is a useful art In Samoa when a woman is married several tattoo marks are placed dn her and Irath in Fiji and Samoa the birth of each child is registered in tnis way on the mothers hand At Tahiti serious crimes are punished by tattooing a murk upon the forehead of the delinquent
