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Levin Daily Chronicle, 22 October 1918, Page 3

George t.ov-t'. of Briersey Hills, Staffs, who is <le..cribcd as the heaviest man irt Great- Britain, was rccsntly cailed upon to report for examination. He turned tlve renlc of 34st, and is 48 years of age.

The numb.r of motor cars in Europe is 522,112. Great Britain heads the list with 171 607 cars in 1917, and Germany ranked second with 95,000 cars in 1914, Jic lust year for which are available.

An orchid with long black tentacles and a white and black eye set in the centrc, causing it to resemble a octopus, was exhibited at the Hortky fund Society 's show at tho Lo~..uuii Scottish Drill Hall.

Wisconsin University, U.S.A., has purchased the library of the late James Collins, of Dublin, who was said said to have made of the largest and most compl.tc collections of Irish literature in exi. tencc.

Lu uinous house n-mbers and street name-plates traced in little button-like mirrors which reilcct and magnify tho smallest .glimmer of light rre to be used in Paris, where in the d:uke. t streets ordinary signs cannot be seen.

Machines of the Curtiss type are used in the regular aerial post inaugurated in the United States. The}" arc capable of carrying from 3001b to 0001b. age for tho new service costs a shilling an ounce. Six machines are already in scrvicc and as tho public demand grows they will be rapidly increased.

When a soldier with only one hand was charged at the Thames Police Court with being an absentee, it was stated that lie was twenty months in hospital ,and that upwards of , forty pieces of female flesh had been grafted on to one of his legs. Ho was an old Grenadier Guardsman, and had four sisters, each of whom had lost their husband in the war.

The United States Senate has ratified unanimously the treaties between the United States and Great Britain for the reciprocal operation of their respective conscription laws. It is estimtaed that 310,000 British subjects in the United States, including 60,000 Canadians, and 54,000 Americans in Great Britain, in : eluding 36,000 in Canada, aro effected.

There is no intention to sanction an aerial post, service during the war "between Stavanger and Aberdeen.- Tho policv of the British Air Board has always been that if aeroplanes are suitable for such services, they can be- far better employed in war operations. Similiar representations from "France lir.vc also been temporarily declined for the same reason.

Samples of sea salt collected by the Carnegie during her last voyage in the Pacific Ocean and the subantarctic re gious have been examined for their radium contents by Mr 0. W. Hewlett. Tho amount of radium was found fo be negligibly small compared with th • values that have been found by .loir and others for salt collected near laud, and this result is in accordance with the" prevailing view that the radium contents of sea salt' diminishes with increase of distance from land.

At Wellington yesterday a 17-year-old youth was given probation for twelve months after answering a charge of 1 throwing rotten fruit at Hon. W. D. 8. Mac Donald on election night.