NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1763, 11 December 1917, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Some butterflies lay over 100,000 eggs. An eagle can live 28 days without food. Grass is fetching £lO an acre in mid-Devon.. The Irish are the most moral nation in the world. The. first photographs were taken in England in 1802, A fly buzzes its wings at the rate of 352 times a second. The first envelope ever made is kept in the British Museum. Welsh miners are paying half-a-erown a pound for new potatoes, The Food Production Department’s 372 officials cost £65,890 a year.. As a rule a man’s hair turns grey five years sooner than a woman’s. A goat lives ton years, and gives an average of a quart of milk a day. Lions and tigers are too weak in lung power to run more than half a mile. First arrivals of Guernsey tomatoes in London have sold freely'at 3s a pound. It is estimated that a million acres of oats will be sown in Ireland this year. In Continental churches notices may be seen requesting women to keep on their hats. Out of every £1 (hat Ireland receives through exports, 19s did comes from England. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was educated at a church school in North Wales. The farmer in Japan who has more, than 10 acres of land is looked upon as a monopolist. In 1841 Ireland’s population was 8,175,124, It is now but four millions and a-third. From May Ist, 1851, till the end of 1911, no less than 4,207,432 people emigrated from Ireland. Exhibited, sold, and resold, a cockerel realised for war charities, in England, a total of £5,080, Nearly 95 per cent, of the 2,000 workers in Gloucestershire hospitals are giving their services free. The average wage of the agricultural labourer in Ireland before the war was from 12s to 13s a week. Olive oil is the greatest body fattener; it is also excellent for the complexion, and a valuable aid to digestion, Two Lincolnshire farm labourers have brought up 29 children out of 35 born, 26 of these being out and at work. Visitors to the Zoological Society’s Gardens last year numbered 1,084,249, the second largest number in its history. An undersized lad of 14 was said, at Lambeth Police Court recently, to be earning 36s a week at Woolwich Arsenal. Kings, in the earliest days, were merely the “fathers of families,” and the word is derived from the same sources as “kin.” The total expenditure by the National Service Department up to July 11th was £163,118, of which £84,491 went on advertising. Of 5,322 old Etonians in the war, 817 have been killed, and honours won include 10 V.C’s, 270 D.S.'GJs, and 329 Military Crosses. Mr J. Templeman, father-in-law of the Mayor of Guildford, Surrey, has joined a local choir, although he is 81 years of age. The total number of male and female prisoners in local and convict prisons is 9,229, as compared with 16,727 on March 31st, 1914. The Kaiser has given to the Hohonzollern Museum at Berlin the golden pen with which he signed the mobilisation order of July, 1914, In building the Nishi Ilongwanji temple of Japan the heavy beams of the roof were hoisted into place with ropes made of human hair. Jamaica is to pay £60,000 a year for 40 years from the termination of the war towards the reduction of the war debt of the United Kingdom. The Malay States have contributed 1,000 officers -to the army and navy, one Dreadnought, 30 to 40 aeroplanes, and £2,000,000 war loan. Anciently, the wedding ring was first placed on the thumb, then on the first finger, then on the second, and lastly on the third, where it remained. Jupiter has four moons. Their names are 10, Europa, Ganymede, and Caliisto. Ganymede, the biggest, is believed to be about half as large as the earth."