NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1900, 7 November 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Danish manufacturers have succeeded in making good quality margarine and lard from hardened whale fat, and the industry will be attempted in Norway. Equal pay for equal work done by women filling - places of men in war industries has been announced as a policy of the Army Ordinance Department in America. Following training at St. Dunsslan’s, Leonard Jackson, blinded while serving with the Cheshire Regiment, is again shaving his old customers at Rock Ferry. A placard over a bridge in Finland, where 30 officers were crowded under water with bayonets by Germans and drowned, reads: “Swimming school for Officers.” Russian economists figure on paying their country's debts from the proceeds of 1,125,000,000 acres of timber in Russia, which is 03 per cent, of the whole world’s timber lands. A cargo of peanuts saved a ship from sinking recently when submarined off (he Atlantic coast of America. The peunuls swelled, filled the bomb holes, and kept the ship afloat. A record catch was made at Lochatsh, Ross-shire, recently. In a single night a fishing boat caught herrings which sold for nearly one thousand pounds, a record price for a eateh. Papal friendship for the King of Bavaria lias been signified by a recent gift made by His Holiness to King. The Pope sent him a dia-mond-studded medallion of the Madonna. Eating thrift slumps was the extravagance of some mice at Livingston, Montana. They secured entrance to the money-drawer of the local post office, and devoured the stamps. Diamond diggers in the southwestern portion of the Transvaal report more valuable returns during the first two months of Ibis year than have ever been recorded in these alluvial deposits. * Life insurance carried in America at the end of ID 17 exceeded £.12,000,000,000. The largest payment on a single lif t* in 1017 was £170,000, in the ease of Frederick R. Hazard, of Syracuse, N.Y. Every company of American soldiers abroad is allowed to adopt one war orphan. The total cost to each soldier is about Is a month. Each company is enthusiastically doing its share. The total of the .-alaries of meiubehs of the House of ( ‘ominous not in receipt of salaries as Ministers, officers of the House, or officers of His Majesty's Household, was during tiie last financial year £101),140. Exemption lum been granted to a man named Beardsley, who is the owner,.manager, and only employee of a ,yoal mine near Matlock. He mines 20 lo 25 tons of coal weekly, and last year his output was 1,000 tons. Representative Snell, of New York, says thal because of restrictive Federal waterpower laws, only 8 per cent, or 10 per cent, of Ihe 00,000,000 horse-power available for development in the United Slates has been utilised. According to (he official organ of the American Expeditionary Force, the “Buddies” smoke .10.000.000 packets of cigarettes every month; during the same period they dispose of 3,000,000 cigars, 403 tons of bar chocolate, and 20,000,000 sticks of chewing-gum.