NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1780, 24 January 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mulches in France are lo he 50 per cent, dearer.

Fork is about (lie most buoyant substance (here is; Iml if sunk 200 ft. in the ocean it will not rise gain to the surface, oAving lo the great pressure of Avatcr. At any less depth it will gradually work its way hack to light. •

The Royal Institute of .Science of Lombardy has passed a resolution, which it proposes to place before the Italian and other Governments adopting the Latin language as universal for scientific purposes. A meeting is to he. held to study practical methods of application. The Holy Synod of Russia has decided to increase the number of reasons in favour of divorce. A neAV Bill submitted by the Procurator contains thirty-tAvo reasons, which include religious discord, excesses, illness Avhich threatens the health of the other party, and drunkenness.

A man arrived at an Indianapolis hotel recently Avearing shoes of black and red leather, fitted out with tiny electric lights and fastened with padlocks instead of luces. Unfortunately, ‘in the evening he lost the key to his padlocks, and he hud to go to bed with his shoes on.