NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1726, 16 June 1917, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

A Laplander will often skate 150 miles in a day. Dutch children often use their wooden shoes as toy boats. Soldiers cannot be billeted on the premises of mi , foreign consul. Admiral vm Tirpiiz usually wear.-c!a-lic--hied hoots and slmes. No ''’omanjqi-s.. 'vvkFoech ! sown AlUTaaM’ a bool from beginning to end. In Christian worship the use of hells goes back as far as the fifth century. Owing to the demand for gold, wedding rings arc now being made of platinum. Twenty thousand tons.of potatoes are needed,by the British Army every month. High bool heels were first used in Persia to raise the feel from (he burning sands. The Newport (Eng.) Golf' Club members have decided to plant potatoes on their course. Billeting was declared illegal in 1(171), but authorised in the Army Discipline Act of 187!). The Princess of Monaco has a pair of jewelled shoes belonging to the seventeenth century. Forty pounds was paid last month for a 42 lb. ham, the purchaser being a Hamburg merchant. The suburbs of Bagdad extend for 20 miles along the banks of the Tigris, both above and below the city. Twenty years ago China paid a Bank of England cheque for £4,400,50(1 as part of her indemnity to Japan. According to-oculists, poor window glass is responsible for eye strain on account of the faulty refraction. Hostages used to be taken for security that peace stipulations were properly carried out. The custom has ceased since 1748. The greatest anaesthetic, chloroform, was discovered by Guthrie in 1831, and was first employed in surgical operations in 1846. A report: of the German Farmers’ League says that the average price of a horse which before the war cost £25 is now £2OO.