NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1802, 16 March 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A bronze tablet in memory of America’s great neurologist, Weir Mitchell, has been unveiled in the University Buildings at Philadelphia. Revolving brushes, operated by a hand lever, clean a man’s hat and shoes at the same time in a machine designed for public places. An electric light that is switched on to illuminate an automobile slop as the door is opened, lias been patented by an English inventor. A fast penman writes at the rate of 30 words per minute, and in an hour’s steady writing he has drawn his pen along a space of 300 yards. Hammersmith (London) Borough Council has collected during the past year 132 tons of wasteymper, on the sale of which a profit of £244 has been realised. The American Y.M.C.A. has raised £10,000,000 from two million subscribers in two months. Bazaars and theatre matinees have been, strictly prohibited. Cotton supplies in Great Britain t have been unexpectedly increased by the arrival of 89,000 bales from the United States, not included in i any official figures. The university of Warsaw which was suppressed in 1832, was reopened in 1864, and has seventyfive professors (who teach in Russian) and over 1,100 students. To realease a man for service, Mr Samuel Sandham, proprietor of the Station Hotel, Cooksbridge, England, who is 55, has undertaken the duties of a local railway porter. At a Red Cross sale held at Wilmslow, England, recently, between £7,000 and £B,OOO was realised. The gifts included a Shire mare (a prize-winner), fat beasts, pigs, and other animals. » Upwards of 80 women are menti- " oned in Lieutenant-General Milne’s despatch for “gallant and distinguished services rendered during the past six months” with the British Salonika Force. The war correspondents in France have now adopted the practice of typewriting their despatches straight oft' instead of writing them. They say that typewriting does not interfere with composition or style. One of the most costly varieties