NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1830, 23 May 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Post offices were first established in 1464.

In 1572 vagrancy was punished in England by death. The English Channel has an average depth of 110 ft. The rapid growth of the nail is an indication of health.

Quarantine was first enforced at Venice in the year 1127. All Germans in Siam, men and women, have been deported to India. India’s “Our Day” Fund has reached one crore of rupees (£666,600). Hearing, as a rule, is more acute with the right ear than with the left.

In all races the male brain is 10 per cent, heavier than that of the female.

Roller skates were first invented in 1865 by an American inventor named Plimpton. The oldest known English picture is one of Chaucer, painted on panel in the year 1380. The nourishment in three baked bananas, weighing 11b., is equal to that of 261 b. of bread.

Cards entitling customers to four glasses of whisky a week are issued by a Glasgow firm.

Welbeck, the Duke of Portland’s place, has a park ten miles in circumference, with 41 lodges.

In the United States an area of a square mile is termed a section. Thirty-six sections make a township. There are more words in the English langage than in the French, Italian, and Spanish languages put together. Five thousand pounds has been subscribed in Cairo in response to an appeal by Lady Allenby for comforts for the troops. As part of its contribution 'to the war, the Philippine Islands is to finance the construction of a tor-pedo-boat and a submarine.

Orders for the confiscation of all food supplies, except in stated quantities for personal consumption, have been issued in Pctrograd.