NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1751, 25 August 1917, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Brazil is immensely rich, and the minerals arc very considerable and valuable, comprising gold, silver, iron, diamonds, topazes, and other precious stones. Record takings by the Glasgow tramways are announced. For the year ending May receipts totalled £1,245,000 —£96,000 over the previous year. Passengers totalled 388,000,000, or 26,000,000 over last year. Three hundred years ago, in England, it was customary to add beer ' to mortar to produce the required consistency. It was asserted that the beer rendered the mortar more durable than if it were made with water. Brazil is the naval power of South America, and its navy consists of three Dreadnoughts, two old battleships, five pi’otected cruisers, and other smaller craft, including eleven torpedo-boat destroyers and four submarines. AN EXCELLENT COUGH MEDICINE. The soothing and healing properties of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy make it especially valuable for coughs and colds. It is pleasant and safe to take, and contains no narcotic. For sale everywhere.— Advt.

Mice cannot exist on Papa Little, an island in St. Magnus Bay, on the west of Shetland, To test the truth of this statement several mice at various times were taken there, but the soil proved so uncongenial that they soon died. Knives and spoons are of great antiquity,' but the use of forks is comparatively modern, indispensable as these adjuncts of the table may now appear, they had not become at all general at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The French Government has conferred the gold medal “des epidemics” on the Queen of Roumania, who since Roumania’s entry into the war has devoted herself entirely to the hospitals for contagious diseases. Marvellous cures have been effected in a Liverpool (England) military hospital in the treatment of wounds by the saline process, in which a current of electricity is passed through a solution of salt and water, the resultant solution being applied to the affected parts for prolonged periods. A dead Hungarian soldier found by (ho Italian troops had in his hand a lelter, which read in part: “May he who starled this war be cursed, even if he is an emperor! May God punish him and our cowardly officers, who keep away from the firing line and spend their days drinking!”