NEWS IN BRIEF.
A woman’s foot should he oneseventh of her height. Nearly 10 per cent, of European flowers are scent-giving. Missouri has the greatest bodies of lead ore in the world.
Holland has over 10,000 acres devoted to the cultivation of bulbs. Twenty thousand women clerks are employed on British railways.
French scientists have found that newly-fallen snow is highly radioactive.
The wings of a big bi-planc are so strong that they will support 120 persons.
The Aldwych Theatre, Loudon, has been leased as an Australian Y.M.C.A. centre.
A handful of tungsten powder will make the filament for a thousand electric lights.
Queensland has fifteen technical colleges, which is attended by about 8,000 students. The heat wave that ended August 4th, caused the death of 955 persons in New York.
\\*(uti rails are now systematically straightened, smoothed off, and used over again.
Wine made from banana juice has been invented by two Frenchmen in Cochin China.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1785, 5 February 1918, Page 4
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157NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1785, 5 February 1918, Page 4
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