News in Brief.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 October 1917, Page 4

News in Brief.

i r | Bulldogs are more disposed to deaf- ■ ness than any other breed. | Cuba has a scented climbing plant j whose leaves are as hard as wood. The lirst church in Australia was opened in Sydney on August 25, 1793. Camphor should not be placed next to furs as it will make the color lighter. It lias been computed that about 36 Water-mills were in use among the ancients. Tho heaviest anchors weigh! about 77cwt. million babies are born in the world each year. Jules Verne's income., with all his tireless industry, never averaged over £1200 a year. On August IS, ISIO, Governor Maequai'ie issued his building regulations for Australia. In times of peace London contains 16 embassies and legations representative of foreign countries. The Free Land Grant System in New South Wales and Tasmania v was abolished on August 2, IS3I. On August 24, 1781), "instructions" were issued allowing land grants to n-iilitary settlers in Australia. Tho income of Mr Henry Ford, tho I American motor car manufacturer, amounts to over £7,000,000 a year. In the fight off Chili the German ships Leipzig and Dresden fired over a thousand shells, and only seven hit. The amount of tobacco consumed in Great Britain last year was 4,728,6001b more than during the previous year. The average length of punishment for officer prisoners of war in England who attempt to escape is four months, j Titian began to sketch before he was four years old. In after years his fav- | ourite models were his wife and daughter. Blondin began to toddle across a rope when ho was four. At the ago of eight ho performed before tho King of Italy. Rev. J. H. Locke is serving ina grocer's shop at Epping, Essex, while the owner, a member of his church, is in the army. Until the war Belgium, with a population of 7,500,000 was one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Eight thousand eight hundred and five artificial limbs have been supplied to soldiers in Great Britain by the Pensions Ministry. We use an average of eight matches each person a day. It takes the constant labour of 60,000 people to make matches for the world. Sergeant-Major Keys one of the i orderly-room clerks at Worthing (England) recruiting office, is a Mutiny veteran and is S2 years of age. The committee of the Chatham (Eng.) Working Men's Institute has arranged to issue to each member twelve halfpint beer tickets per week. The present title holiness, as given to the Pope, dates only from the fourteenth century. Before that time it was used by kings and emperors. Thirty thousand gramaphonc records of speeches made by eminent statesmen, appealing for support to the War Loan, are to be distributed in Russia. Nine hundred women tram employees at Cologne—over two-thirds of the total number—haye struck work. They demand higher wages and more free days. The thickest-skinned animal is undoubtedly the whale. Nowhere is its skin less than several inches thick, and in some parts it is said to be nearly 2ft. There was a meatles day once a week in the first training-ship of the Marine Society, acquired in 1756. Each boy was, however, allowed a quart, of beer per day. Over a thousand "penny dreadfuls" os the lurid defective type were found in the possession of Arthur Fowler, aged 16, sentenced at Nottingham to three months for stealing. j J ( ( |