NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1927, 16 January 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Post Offices Avcre first established in 1404. ' Punctuation marks Avcre firsts used in 1490. • More than 3,000 women Avork at the Admiralty. There are 55G charities registered in London. In 1572 vagrancy Avas punished in England, by death. The English Channel has an average depth of 110 ft. The Kimberley diamond fields were discoA’ered in 18/1. England Avas first divided into .-.hires in the seventh century A.D. London’s underground railways carry 900,000,000 passengers a year. Over a million tuns of food were shipped io our Allies in March. Sloav rivers run four miles an hour; rapid ones seven miles. Hearing, as a rule, is more acute with the right ear (ban with the left. The average man needs I,ooolb. weight of food to sustain him for a year. A fog in (lie Atlantic Ocean is generally about thirty miles in diameter. The first English’Temperance. Hall was built in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1827. In all races the male brain is ten per cent. hcaA r ier than that of the female. Roller skates Averc first invented in 1868 by an American inventor named Plimpton. Bank of England notes are numbered ImekAvards from 10,000, hence the figures 00,001. The Ameer of Afghanistan has a subsidy of .6120,000 a year from the Indian .Government. The nourishment in three baked bananas, Aveighing 11b., is equal to that of 261 b. of bread. A bee, .unladen, will Hy forty miles an hour, but one coining homo laden with honey docs not travel faster Ilian twelve miles an hour.