NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1821, 2 May 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mahomihedans salute with the left hand. A flea can jump over a barrier 'SOO times its own height. Soap was taxed £2B per ton in the time of Queen Anne. The first practical sewing machine was invented in 1841. The feeding,,expenses of the London Zoo are £IOO a week. A complete set of British birds’ eggs is worth about £2OO. Football was a crime in England during the reign of Henry VIII. The first locomotive was built by Richard Trevithie in 1804. The world record for weightthrowing is now 561 b., hurled 43ft. 1-Jin. The Marquis of Bute’s mansion near Roth,say, Scotland, cost £2,000,000. In, Great Britain niore'deaths oc-

cur in December than in any other month. One hundred Japanese physiciansare attending to the wounded in Roumania. Over 1,000,000 pawn tickets for .sums under 10s are issued weekly in London. The output. of the Rand mines, South Africa, averages about £2,300.000 a month. Two whales, one of which was 30ft. long, were washed ashore recently on the Scottish coast. The population of the British Empire exceeds one-quarter of the population of the world. The population of Japan show’s an increase of between 700,000 and 800.000 every year. ,In coining gold, the British Government has a profit of id in the £lO, or about £2OO per million. Paper as a surgical dressing is successfully used in thp New York Orthapaccjic Dispensary and Hospital. European experiments have found* that explosions can be caused; in gasworks by sparks from telephones. A w’cll-kuow’n London Cca expert considers that one pound of tea should make between 210 and 280 cups; The amount of waiter evaporated from the oceans is 30 inches a year, an aggregate of 273,000 cubic kilometres.