NEWS BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1778, 19 January 1918, Page 1

NEWS BRIEF.

The soldier’s daily ration at the front includes 3ozs.of cheese. Works of art and antiquities may not l)e exported from Russia. Balliol, founded in the year 1262, is the oldest of Oxford colleges.

Paper dresses of proved durability have been invented in Germany. All political exiles, it is announced, will be allowed to return to Russia.

Naturalists say that a single swallow will devour 6,000 Hies a day.

Out of 111 different kinds of snakes in the United States only 17

are poisonous

Canada and New Zealand have supplied (he bulk of cheese required for the front.

Most of the cheaper padlocks used all the world over come from South Staffordshire,

More people over 100 years old are found in mild climates than in the higher latitudes.

The Universal Postal Union was first established in 1875 between (wentv-two countries.

Aeroplanes can now be launched from the decks of vessels while the latter are moving swiftly. The sun has been found to be 465,000 times as bright as (ho full moon at its average distance.

It. lakes eight: times the strength to go upstairs that is required for the same distance on the level.

An ordinary silver fork will write on coated book-paper almost as clearly and easily as a lead-pencil.

Vacations for worn-out nurses from all the fighting armies are provided by Norway’s ■ people and hotels.

The first steamer on the Thames was the Marjory, in 1814. The

Richmond followed her a year later. The constant labour of four persons for an entire year is required

to produce a cashmere shawl of the best quality.

Female fish of all species are considerably more numerous than males, with two exceptions —the angler and the catfish. The membership of the Young Women’s Christian Association now numbers 780,000, with branches in 930 countries.

The letters delivered in London on Monday are 30 per cent, more numerous than those delivered on any other day in the week.

Two hundred pounds in Liberty Bonds has been offered as a prize to the first United States aviator who bombs Berlin from the air. Over one-fifth of the world's inhabitants belong to the British Empire, which occupies approximately one fifth of the earth’s surface.

The French President receives £24,000 a year, and gels, in addition, fruit, vegetables, game, fuel, oil, gas, electric light, and,washing free. Grey horses live longer than those of any other colour. Cream-colour-ed steeds are usually delicate, and much affected by warm weather.

In China’s constitutional convention a vote was passed assuring full religious liberty, by giving all religions the same rights under the laws.

In spite of the enormous fallingoff in immigration, the population of New York city increased last year by 200,000, which is 50,000 more than usual.

A teacher of singing declares that a two months’ course <>t proper breathing exercises should increase the circumference of the chest two or three inches.

People usually live longer in islands and small peninsulas than on continents. Barbados, Greece, Madeira, and the Shetland* are all favourable to long life.

A man complained to the New York Police that he had been robbed of ten thousand dollars. Arrests were made, but nothing was found until the police examined the man himself. They found his ten thousand dollars in his stocking.

Someone saw smoke pouring from a window in Chicago recently. He rushed to the nearest fire alarm box and turned on an alarm. Fire Company 46 dashed gallantly to the scene, only to be told that a beefsteak was burning on the stove. A wireless telegraph has been invented which indicates the direction from which a message comes; two of these instruments, at some distance apart, listening to the same message, enable the operators by triangulation to locate the sender.