NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1758, 29 November 1917, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■Dew has! a preference for some colours. There is no “lighting-up” time in Ireland. . Mme. Albani began learning music when she was only four years -old. 'Over a hundred peerages have been created in the past fifty years. Nansen’s North Pole ship, Nimrod, is now carrying coal for our allies. Manna is a natural product- of the ash and lareh'iu Sicily, Calabria, etc. Otto of roses is the oil which swims at the top in the distillation of rose water. In the mouth of a conger of 341 lbs., netted'at Bognor, Sussex, was a sole weighing 1 Alb. Seven hundred thousand fewer births took place in Germany last year than jn 1914. Last year 50,000 miles of cinema film passed through the United States Customhouses. Eight existing plants are depicted on Egyptian monuments, and many have been found in mummies. St. Pierre believed that evensquare league contained at least one peculiar vegetable and insect. Ten sovereigns were found in the freewill offering box of St. Mary’s Church, Hitehin, Hertfordshire. Seventy thousand bells have been received by a bell foundry at Hanover to be recast into war material. Three hundred thousand spare razors for the use of the army have been collected by the Cutlers’ Company. Up to the present 4-9,600 Iron Crosses of the first class and 2,200,500 of the second class have been awarded. When lightning strikes a tree it runs between the bark and the wood, and if resisted by knots, strips the former off. Japanese officials in Korea are hoping to establish a leper colony on an island to be placed under the control of missionaries. The stuffed raven, “Grip,” immortalised by Charles Dickens, in “Barnaby Rudge,” realised seventy-eight guineas at a recent auction. There are 1,563,934 Church members and 1,712,086 Sunday school scholars in the Congregational denomination throughout the world. The French sergeant who recently bombed Essen was three, years ago a hardware merchant, without a thought of war in his head. A wireless telephone has been invented that can be used on a motorcar, even though it is travelling at forty or fifty miles an hour. The “S” (simpson) rays, produced by the electric combustion of tungstate of iron and manganese, prove to have valuable curative properties. A cricket match between one-leg-ged and one-armed elevens, in which the latter Avon, Avas played at a party given to a number of Avounded soldiers. Returns from 150 Avood-pulp mills in the United States slioav that last year they used 2,419,000 cords of Avood in making 2,229,000 tons of pulp for paper. Archdeacon Dennis, who recently the Bible in - to I bo, the language whin renl among 3,000,000 tribesmen in Southern Nigeria, Thirty-three years of his life spent in gaol avus the record of a man sentenced in London to twelve months’ hard labour for theft. He is sixty-three years old. The paper used by the British and Foreign Bible Society for its cheap editions of the Scriptures cost • just 2d a pound in pre-Avar times. To-day the price is Bd. Included in the exhibition of Avar photographs at the Grafton Galleries is one said to be the largest photograph in the world. It is 22ft. long, lift, high, and avus taken at Yimy Ridge.