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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1770, 29 December 1917, Page 4

from Owing of every chiJcUin the A gardner has pepmented, by grafting plant bn to a potato root, ducing what hd calls a “tomatatbeßj ’ Salaries in the Public Health Department of the City of London last year were £5,308, whereas retiring allowances totalled £0,078.., Chinese and Japanese bells are elapperless and never are swung, their tones being produced by strik-'. ing them with wooden mallets. A thoroughbred which won eight races and £1,509 for his' various owners has been sold in the Malton Cattle Market for livo and a half guineas. It is stated that an attack of hiccough that withstood all other treatment for 19 days was cured with one dose of quinine, 10 grains. There were 502 M’s.P. receiving their salary at the end of the year, apart from forty Ministers; 128 M’s.P. declined to receive the £4OO j a year. ~ I A fan has been contrived for a military aeroplane which, by revolving, turns the dynamo that furnishes current for the car’s wireless apparatus. Jamaica is to pay £OO,OOO a year for forty years from the termination of the war towards the reduction of the war debt of the UnitedKingdom. When the Grand Duchess Olga was born £2,000,000 was settled on her, and it is said that this huge sum was safely invested in British and French securities. Last year 1,000 persons were killed and 5,589 injured in railway accidents in Great Britain, being 403 and 20,151 fewer respectively as compared with the previous year. Private Hayhurst, who, although only fifteen years old, enlisted at the outbreak of war, lias been killed. His brother, when fourteen, actually served in the trenches in France. The average length of life is greater in Norway than in any other country. This is attributed to the fact Unit the temperature is cool and uniform throughout the year. One of the longest bridges in (lie world, the railway bridge over the Amur River at Khabarovsk, (Siberia, has just been completed. It took Jive yeai's to build, and is 7,593 ft. long. The total war expenditure of Aus-tria-Hungary for the first three years of the war amounted to £l,102,000,900, while the expenditure for the fourth year of the war is estimated at £500,000,000. Henry Elionsky, a freak swimmer of New York, has performed the of swujww|ig ti pN rather rolling, thrcftfgti'ilxe water for a distance of seven miles securely tied to a chair. His legs and arms were hound, yet he covered Ihe distance in good time. What anxiety and responsibility will accomplish is shown in the appearance of the Prime Minister of Britain, Mr Lloyd George. Before the war, he was one of the youngest looking members of the House of Commons, with long dark hair. Today his hair is snow white.