NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1760, 4 December 1917, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Only one man in 205 is over 6ft. There are a lot of starters who never arrive. The best marksmen are usually those with grey eyes. There are over 5,000 solicitors in practice in London. A Russian does not become of age until he is twenly-six. It is estimated that over 4,000,000 pens are destroyed daily. Blankets were first made in England by Thomas Blanket in 1705. The French unit of horse-power is one-seventh less than the English. The average Englishwoman is two inches taller than the American woman. A floor 14ft. square might be covered with a single ounce of goldleaf. The Bank of England has 32 different methods of detecting forged banknotes, A square foot of a Persian rug means twenty-three days’ work for the weaver. In Austria smoking is to be restricted to twenty-five cigarettes or ten cigars a week. An oculist says that scarcely one in twenty of watchmakers suffers from weak eyes. The growth of girls is greatest in their fifteenth year; of boys in their seventeenth. According to the insanity returns in England, 16 cases in 1 000 are caused by love affairs. 1 A snail student has ascertained that it takes the little creature fourteen days to travel a mile. Over 400 lambs have been reared this season on the links of the Bramley Golf Club, England. George I. was for some time one of the churchwardens of St. Mart-in’s-in-the-Pields, London, The Admiralty have ordered 160,000 silk neckerchiefs for the navy from Macclesfield manufacturers. The fishermen of . Deal recently took from the sea three large barrels of winej each containing sixty gallons. The fattest form of food is nuts; almonds contain more than half their weight in easily digestible fat, A thirty years old wooden sailing ship, of 215 tons dead weight, has just been sold in England for £3,350.