News in Brief

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 February 1918, Page 1

News in Brief

.* * : Ireland, with less population than Scotland, has more than twice the niimber of police, and the cost .is £1,450,000, compared with £000,000. • A robber-proof railway car has been made, which is capable of sending deadly cvandie of potassium fumes into the •faces of the attacking band. To do away* with the germ-carrying glass milk-bottle, si> difficult toi s clean, paper milk-bottles have been indented, to be burned after-onco using. ! During the war, the trade of Canada has increased from £172,800,000 in 1915 to £400,000,000 last year, the greater part of the trade being in exports. The combinatiofyof a phonograph and a telephone onffbios hospital patients to hoar music when they please, while other patients near by arc not obliged to hear. •> Investigation of the sun's heat proves it to bo a variable star, and an expedition to the 'cloudless region in South America' is to bo made to gather further facts. Sincc tho beginning of the war .about 90,0Q0 pensions have been granted to the mothers of unmarried soldiers killed in action, on whom they were previously dependent. It is stated that recently a British aeroplane travelled across to Franco with a pilot, six passengers, and 7001b of luggage, doing the trip from Hendon to Paris in t w ° hours. , . Aluminium pcncil that.„ Writes on glass or porcelain, producing marks that can be etched with acid or burnished to resemble silver, has been invented by a Swiss.