NEWS IN BRIEF.
Artificial fog is produced by two Zeppelins of new type which were recently sighted over Lake Constance. It is reported that the craft were sent to a German seaport for further experimenting with their camouflage operation.-. Vulgar extravagance marked a dinner held recently in Philadelphia, where six men sat down at a fashionable hotel at a feast which cost the host £2OO a plate. The giver of this banquet presented a plate of gold to each of the guests on leaving. Every eighteen pounds- of bone can be made to supply enough glycerine for an 18-pounder shell. Glycerine produced at home can be bought by the Government for £SO a ton, for that which is imported Great Britain has to pay £3OO a ton. A “Frugality Dance" was held in .Montclair, Xcw Jersey, recently. Tho.-e wearing patent leather shoes, silk -tockings, or high collars were lined 2id each for each offence, those wearing marel waves od, while wearers of evening dress, or “costumes,’’ had to pay Is to the management.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1868, 24 August 1918, Page 1
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173NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1868, 24 August 1918, Page 1
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