NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1886, 5 October 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In the parks and open spaces of the London County Council there are no fewer than 1 1,000 allotments. Grey horses are (he longest lived. Creams are usually delicate, and are seriously affected hv verv warm

went her. When Lilian was bombarded during Hie early days of this war, liou-e windows rallied in Gotland, a hundred miles away. Over eight thousand special constables have been serving in (lie London Special Constabulary since the beginning of the war.

Feathers strewn in tJio jnilli oi' :i bride took the place ol' rice and confetti at a wedding' held at Boston, Lincolnshire, recently. If every bullet had found it-' billet, all the combatants on both sides would have been wiped out in the first three months of the war. A dug-out similar to the Y..M.C.A. dug-out in France behind the tiring line has been built outside the Aldwych Hut in the Ml rand, London. Engineers in Norway are planning to consolidate and unite several small water-falls to obtain 200,000 hydro-electric horse-power in one plant. Of eighty-six chaplains who have given their lives at the front, liflyseven were Church of.Kngland members, and nineteen Roman Catholics. Sea-shells murmur because the vibrations of (lie air, not otherwise observable, are collected in the shell, and by its shape are brought to a focus. East Finchley (Eng.) Baptist Sunday School has, at a cost of £9O, scut to men serving with (he forces, 2150 letters, 8200 newspapers, and 1400 magazines. Sold just after the declaration of war for i'lß,ooo. and in 1015 for £15,250, the steamship Sydney Reid, 2,852 tons, has just changed hands for £42,000. The largest painting in the world, exclusive of panoramas or eyeloramas, is in the grand salon of the Doge’s Palace at Venice. It is 84ft. wide by 34ft. high. School children in Germany get reward stamps for collecting old papers, scraps of metal, rags, and even hair, all of which”'arc used in Germany's extremity. Russia, with a population of nearly 130,000,000, has only about 19,000 physicians. The United States with a population of about 100,000,000, has over 120,000 physicians. Not yet nineteen, with over two years* service at the front in the Royal Fusiliers, Sergeant-Major Arthur Bailey, of Hounslow, London, has been promoted regimental sergeant-major,