NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1721, 5 June 1917, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fish cannot live in foul water, nor man in foul" air.

Some GO languages are spoken in the dominions of the ex-Tsar.

The British Prime Minister receives on an average, live hundred letters a day.

Gas helmets are now being made in a certain war factory for the use of horses.

Wolfe’s tomb in Westminster Abbey i> now covered by twenty Canadian colours.

The law as to billeting does not extend to the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.

£4,001,520 is required for London education in the coming year—an increase of £15,000.

Peace terms are first set forth in a preliminary treaty, and subsequently confirmed in a definite Irealv.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century ’people were hanged in Great Britain for the illicit manufacture of sail.

Over 50,000 permits have been issued under the regulations of the Defence of the Realm Act in the. British Isles.

The First Lord of the Admiralty has live private secretaries, including two M’s.P. who are unpaid, and a naval secretary.

-Authentic records show that cin-ders-from a forest lire in the treetops in Northern Washington were carried 20 miles.

The highest temperature ever known in a human being was recorded in (he case of an Italian. A victim of lung disease, his temperature was 138.

For soldiers on leave in London, there are now between 9,000 and 10,000 beds provided by the churches, the Y.M.C.A., and other organisations.

In Porto Rico electric wires are obstructed at times by a parasitic plant that settles and grows upon them, obtaining nourishment from the air.

Appearance of solidity Ims been given motion pictures by :m inventor who photographs two films nl (lie same lime from slightly differ(*nf angles.

It lias been decided that a volunteer cannot claim expenses for uniform, equipment, purchase of shot, ole., as a deduction for in-

come-tax purposes. The coldest inhabited country is said lo be the province of Werchojansk, in Siberia. The daily mean temperature of the entire year is 2.47 decrees below zero.

The casting of a perfect, bell is a diflicult matter. The material generally used for the making of bells is known as bell-metal, and consists of a mixture of copper and tin.

Before the war all potash was imported from Germany. To-day it is manufactured in England. This will he another valuable industry for Great Britain after the war.

The Cross of the Legion of Honour has been conferred on Adjutant Raoul Lufbery, an American aviator, who enlisted under (he French Hag, and by December last had brought down six enemy aeroplanes.

With full military honours, the funeral took place at Romscy, Hants, of John Kneller, who fought in the Crimean and Indian Mutiny campaigns. He was nursed at Seb-