NEWS IN BRIEF.
An apparatus for aerating water was patented in 1807. The highest clouds are only about ten miles above the earth.
Gloves were (irst worn in England in the reign of Edward If.
Card-playing was (irst introduced into England in the year 1350. Tea plants at the age of seven years yield 7001 b. of tea to the acre. President Wilson golfs every morning, and goes twice a week to the theatre.
The game of billiards was invented by a Frenchman named Devigne in 1572.
That most indispensable article, the pin, was invented in England in 1543.
A woman tractor driver has ploughed thirty-four acres in a week in East Sussex.
More than 22,000 teachers have left the British schools to join tha linin’ and navv.
Nine acres of potatoes have been planted by the authorities in Richmond Royal Park, Surrey. The citizens of Grimes County, Texas, have agreed to use no wheat until the next harvest.
Dr. Hermann Rosemeier, former editor of the Berlin Post, predicts a social revolution in Germanv.
A chauffeur to one of (he highest officers at Camp Green, U.S.A., is a millionaire several times over. A London fortune-toller who boasted she had told the fortune of (he Kaiser 27 years ago was fined £5.
Six weeks profit on waste paper collection by Depford Borough Council (England) amounts to £SO 8s Bd, being at the rate of nearly £SOO a vear.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1885, 3 October 1918, Page 1
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237NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1885, 3 October 1918, Page 1
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