NEWS IN BRIEF

Levin Daily Chronicle, 22 October 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

A person begins to lose height at the age of fifty, and at the age of nincty has lost at least one and a half inches.

The sun's light is equal to 5503 wax candles at Ift from the eye. It would take 800,000 full moons to equal cloudless sunshine.

Years ago a man introduced to the world a thin copper strip for protecting shoe tips, and received £800,000 in royalties. Seven hundred tons of paper were used in printing the 03,000,000 new ration books. Nearly 3000 people were engaged 011 the work. In a naval battle, like the one off Jutland, from five to six thousand pounds of cotton a minute are consumed by each Ave warships.

The Prinojp of Wale's Fund has reached a total of £0,422,838. Of this sum £3,911,218 has been allocated to date for distribution of relief.

There were 137,408 gross of human hair nets invoiced at Chefoo, €hina, for the United Statfiis during 1917, compared with (i 4,308 gross for 1910. Five more weekly papers in England have increased their price, bringing tho total to 1194, of which 141 arc daily papers and 1053 weeklies.

Normally it takes one-twentieth of a second for the hand to respond to a motion seen by the eye, says a report of the National Physical Laboratory.

In England there arc nearly a million people in receipt of old age pensions, of whom only 330,000 are men. The cost is approximately twelve millions a, year.

Some (500. men have gone from tho London Times to join th'e King's -forces. Of these, forty have bccfi killed in battle and 110 have been disabled by wounds and sickness.

By permission of the' King, tho Wallasey ferry boats, Iris and Daffodil, which played sucli a prominent part at Zecbrugge, have been rc-christened "with the,prefix "Royal."

Tlic rccord for hard work at Woolwich Arsenal is hold by a fitter in the gun-carriage section, who has not missed a single shift of 15 hours daily since the outbreak of the war.

German burglary insuranco companies in 1917 paid £900,000 in claims against £75,000 in 1914. The railways paid in 1917 £3,000,000 compensation for goods stolen, against £200,000 in 1914.