NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1819, 27 April 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Cleopatra's Needle, weighs 180 tons. Bombshells were first made in Holland in 1495. The dinner fork was introduced into Italy in 1008, It is said that 400,000 people live in one-room apartments. Gold is taken to the London Mini in ingots' weighing each about 180 ounces. Sufferers from rheumatism should eat freely of celery; both raw and cooked. The trade of Canada has increased from £172,800,000 in 1915, to £400.000,000 in 1916. ’ Europeans prefer white pearls, but in China bright yellow pearls

Only six persons in ever/ 1,000 live to be seventy-live years obi, and only one reaches !,ic century, are the most valued. Hun prisoners re eive 30oz. ot meat .per week In England; the Hetmans, never, give our men more than 12JO/.S. i The salary of the Director-Gen-eral of Recruiting in England is £1,200, and that of the DeputyDirector £I,OOO. Mr Daniels, United States Navy Secretary, ha? received so far 40,000 suggestions for eliminating submarines. The water in Norwegian fjords is wonderfully clear, quite small objects being visible at a depth of 20 fathoms. Glass mirrors were known in A.D. 23, but the art of making them was lost and not recovered until 1300, in Venice. The average number of persons in each family of the United Kingdom is, as nearly as possible, four ami a-halt. Toads lay, on an average, 11,500 eggs a year, according to a naturalist, but only one egg in a thousand develops into a toad. A British_officer, while cashing a, 'cheque at the Crcdito It alia no, Rome, was robbed of his wallet, containing £4,000.