News in Brief.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 December 1917, Page 1

News in Brief.

A wireless telephone has been invented that can be used 011 a motorcar even though it is travelling at forty or fifty miles an hour. , The "S" (Simpson) rays, produced by the clectric combustion of tunsgato of iron and manganese, prove to liave valuable curative properties.

A cricket match between one-legged and one-armed elevens, in which the latter won, was played at a party given to a number of wounded soldiers.

Returns from 150 wood-pulp mills in the United States show that last year they used 2,410,000 cords of wood in making 2,229,000 tons of pulp for paper. Archdeacon Dennis who recently died at sea, translated the Bible into Ibo, the language which is current among 300,000 tribesmen in Southern Nigeria. Thirty-three years of liis life spent in gaol was the record of a man sentenced in London to twelve months' hard labour for theft. He is sixty-three years old.

The paper used by the British and Foreign Bible Society for its cheap editions of the Scriptures c.jt just 2d a pound in pre-war times, 'jfo-day the price is Sd.

Included in the exhibition of war photographs at the Grafton Galleries is one said to be the largest photograph in the world . It is 22ft long, lift, high, and was taken at Vimy liidge.

The growth of municipal golf courses in the United States goes ahead amazingly. Nearly every city of 200,000 inhabitants has at least one course in which the fees are almost nominal.

One of the most durable woods is sycamore. A statue made from it, now in the Museum of Gisch, Cairo, is believed to be nearly GOOO years old. It is entirely sound and natural in appearance. M. Nicholas Ambaticois, a Greek shipowner, has given £20,000 to the French Government, the interest on which is to provide pensions for the families of the French sailors killed in Athens last December.

The discovery in Buda Pesth that forty thousand pairs of soldiers' boots were made with brown paper soles resulted in the arrest of eighteen bootmakers, nineteen factory managers, and ninety-six other persons.

Mr Henry Dove, who lias died at the age of ninety-three, began his working life as office boy to Robert Stephenson in 1837, and was in Stephenson's employ while the London and Birmingham railway was being constructed.

The head has seventy-seven muscles — eight for the eyes and eyelids, one for the nose, eight for the Hps, eight for the jaw, eleven for the tongue, eleven for the larynx, eleven for the ear, seventeen for motions of the head and neck, one to move the hairy scalp, one the eyebrows.

Ten out of the thirteen members of the Royal Commission which investigated the financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland reported that two and three-quarters millions annually had been taken from Ireland for imperial purposes in excess of her proper contribution.