NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1887, 8 October 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Kent churches hold special “allutmeiiteers' ” services.

Berlin chemists advertise a drug to deaden the pangs of hunger. During the war 12 French deputies have given their lives for France.

Something like 8,000,000 tons of coal is annually consumed in London. For playing "Thais” for a cinema him, Miss Mary Garden received £20,000. There is a run on grocers' empty boxes in England for making rabbithutches.

Chairs are being experimentally made of paper, twisted and reinforced with steel rods.

It requires an average of more limn twenty million pins per day to supply the British people. There is a 250-year-old pear (ree at Glynde, Sussex, which still hears fruit heavily each vear.

Jn place of jam, dates and oranges are now periodically issued (o our troops in France at tea-time. Three women grave-diggers arc to be employed at Felerbomigh Cemetery, England, during the summer. Milk, according lo an aitlhorily, appeases hunger more quickly and satisfactorily Gian any oilier food. Orders have been issued in Warwickshire for the breaking-up of 81,000 acres of grass laud for cultivation.'

11' you save the ash of all the cigars ymi smoke yon will have consumed .1,000 before you have a pound of ash. The depth of water has a great influence on the speed ol steamers, the vessels moving more slowly in shallow water.

By an alteration in the size of L.C.C. tramway tickets one hundred tons of paper palp will be saved annuallv.

Friends can now send prisoners of war interned in Holland not more than ,C 25 a head per month, by money order. II is eslimaled that Hie revenue derived from I he duly of Id on cheques in Britain was, in the lasi linaneial vear, £1,3-18.000.

Tile largest winged insecl in the world is the atlas moth of Central Brazil, its wings extend lourleen inches (Tom lip to tip. Private Britiand, Fan-1 Lancashire Regiment, has had a piece of shrapnel extracted from his hear! while in Leeds Inormary.

The number of Dover men who have joined the services is greater in pruporiion than the number from any other town in Fmgland. The women of Bnrmndn are noted for their line complexions. This is partly accounted for by the lad (hat they cal plentifully of onions. The biggest match factory m the world is the Vulcan, al Tidaholm, Sweden, Before the war it employed 1,200 men, and made 000,000 boxes a da v.

An estate of 1,300 acres has been purchased bv the British Government. near Rembrey, Carmarthenshire, as a farm colony for discharged men.

The rector of Apslcy Guise, Bedfordshire, has organised a "labour battalion” in his parish lo dig allotments belonging lo absent sailors and soldiers.

The volcano of I.lcleakala, in the. Sandwich Islands, lias the biggest crater in the world. It is nearly 30 miles in cireumfereiiee, and 3,000 fed deep. There arc 100,000 Smiths in the I “idled Stales Army, 1.500 of whom are named William; there are 10.000 Miller.-, 15.000 W'il-oiis. and 1,000 ./(dm Browns.

The German lank i- about Iwen-ly-lhree feel in length, weighs for-ty-five tons, and has a crew consisting of one otlicer and eighteen ol her ranks.

Everv tun ol Atlantic water, when evaporated, yields 811 b. ol sail; a ton of Taeitie water 7010.; Arctic and Anfardic water.- yield 851 b. to (lie ton; Dead Sea water 18710. Soon after Major Quarry, of; Reading, England, was killed in action, Ids dog,, alter a long search (raced him. The dog was shot by a sniper, and Jell dead beside bis master.