NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1805, 23 March 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 7,000,000 farms in the United States. Heavy eating, like heavy drinking, shortens life. The bone frame of the average whale weighs about 45 tons. / Holland has over 10,000 acres devoted to the cultivation of bulbs. New Orleans has a nunnery, all the inmates of which are coloured. Under the new regime in Russia, women will be permitted to act on juries. Amber is found coloured black, white, brown, and green, as well as yellow. Acetylene gas is now used on some French railways for illuminating carriages. All the blood of a man’s body passes through his heart once in every two minutes. The cost of maintaining children in some wox-khouses has increased from 6s to 9s weekly. Posts planted in the earth small end down last longer than those planted in the position in which the free grew. Out'of 1,000 men who marry, 332 marry younger women, 570 marry women of the same age, and 80 marry older women. The term “millinery” comes from the Italian town Milan, which was formerly the centre of fashion for ladies’ hats. Blood-counting apparatus, before this war always imported from Germany, is now successfully made in Philadelphia. Of thirteen male members of the village church choir at Kilham, Yorkshire, twelve joined (he. army, and five have been killed. The Defence of the Realm Regulations whitdi make compulsory the installation of the wireless telegraph on certain British ships of 3,000 tons and upwards, has been amended by the reduction of the tonnage to 1,600.