IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1893, 22 October 1918, Page 1

IN BRIEF.

The swan is (lie longest-lived bird.

Deprived of food, the mole will starve to death in a dav.

in 471 working days the Wiu> Cabinet held 575 meet lags. There were three million Americans under arms on September Ist. Julian is cutting away its forests nl the rule of 1,000,001) acres a, vear.

Lieutenant Xungesseh, the noted French airman, has now 38 victories to Ids credit.

The American tobacco crop is expected to be 12.(> per cent, better than last vear.

One species of hectic has, in (he male, 5,300 facets in the eye, while the female has 4,550. Last year 533,833 cases of measles and Gorman measles were notified in England and Wales.

Connecticut, U.S.A., inis seven policewomen, and is the lh>t Slate to give them full authority.

Though fair-haired people are not so strong as those with dark hair, they usually live longer. Little woollen dolls are being worn by'Paris women as fetishes to guard against accident from air raids. By treating them with certain gases, a Frenchman has succeeded in keeping eggs fresh for ten months. All the leading British golf clubs have invited members of the American forces to play over their courses. At a north-east coast port of England a catch of fish landed there by a trawler recently realised £lO,790.