NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1802, 16 March 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

One-eighth of the children born in the United States die before they are a year old. A recreation hut has been opened on Mount Olivet, in Palestine, by the Church Army. Theh Salvation Army is now accommodating refugees in Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Milan, A cedar log which fell in a forest thirteen centuries ago is still perfectly sound and usable. The bones of very aged persons have a greater proportion of lime than those of young people. The cost of maintaining children in some workhouses in England has increased from (is to 9s weekly. The average prices for wheat, barley, and oats were higher last year than they have been since 1836. After 75 years of life, the average nian has eaten 110 tons of food, some 1,500 times his own weight. The aniline dyes have proved to be the best germ-killers and arresters of noxious growth known to medicine. » • The Boskup human skull, recently dug up in South Africa, is probably ■ several .hundred thousand years old. Closed fur two years, the largest brick kiln in the world, at Fletton, England, is being rc-opeued with women labour.