NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1739, 24 July 1917, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

President Wilson is the 27th President of the United States, the roll beginning with George Washington in 1789. He is the sixth of the number whose paternal ancestry was Scotch-Irish, the others being Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Arthur, and McKinley. The revenue from the Bradford Corporation’s grease factory amounts to nearly £50,000 per annum. Tins sum represents what other people have thrown away. No loss than 120 ions a week of valuable grease are ex true led from the waste products in the wool industry. Our.friends of the I idled Slates have a big food “push” on. Not only" are gardens, lawns, paries, and vacant lots being cultivated, but, in acreage, maize, oats, and potatoes will boat all records. All that will be wanted is'safe transport —in other words, getting the Him under. A rat’s tail serves it as a fifth hand. It is an organ of touch, prehensile, like Ii 10 tail of a monkey, and is provided with a complex system of muscles. By its aid the animal is enabled lo walk along a narrow rope, using i( to balance with or to gain a hold. When there is occasion, it is employed as a spring, by help of which the rat can jump to heights otherwise inaccessible, - “I never knew a New Zealand soldier whom I did not consider equal lo 10 Germans,” said ChaplainCaptain Burgiu, in the course of an address at Auckland on Wednesday of last week. “At the battle of the Somme I was engaged at a dressing station just behind the front line trench, over which the men leaped to the attack. Wo saw them go over, and wo did not have to wait long before wounded and prisoners commenced to come in. I saw one New Zealand soldier bring in eight German prisoners, and all he had in the way of weapons was a pair of scissors.”