NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1927, 16 January 1919, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Only one man in 205 is over Oft. Some butterllies lay over 100,000 eggsAn eagle can live twenty-eight days without food. The best marksmen are usually those with grey eyes. The lirst envelope ever made D kept in the British Museum. The lungs of an average man eontain about live quarts of air. Blankets were lirst made in England by Thomas Blanket in 1705. The French unit of horse-power is one-seventh less than the English. A boa and python have the largest number of ribs of any animal, the number being 320 pairs. Of American animals, the moose, elk, and caribou are natural trotters. Memory, it has been ascertained, is stronger in summer than in winter. A square foot of a Persian rug means twenty-three days’ work for the weaver. The growth of girls is greater in their fifteenth year; of hoys in their seventeenth. In Austria smoking is to be restricted to I wenty-live cigarettes or ten cigars a week. Hand-grenades were being produced in the Baited Slates at the rate of 2,000,000 a month. According to (ho insanity returns in England, 10 cases in 1,000 are caused by love affairs. A snail student has ascertained that it takes the little creature fourteen days to travel a ffiile. Over 400 lambs have been reared Ibis season on the links of the Bramley Golf Club, England. George I, was for some lime one of the churchwardens of St. Marl-ins-in-llie-Fields, London. In (he three years' of war 033 Scandinavian ships have been torpedoed or nunecl, and 500 sailors killed. Olive oil is the greatest body fattener; it is also excellent for the complexion, and a valuable aid to digest ion. The fishermen of Deal recently took from the sea three large barrels of wine, each containing sixty gallons. The fullest form of food is nuts; almonds contain more than half their weight in easily digestible fat. America has 20,000,000 men of military age, and every year more than 1,000,000 youths reach (he age of twenty-one. London’s 22,000 policemen guard more than 4,000 miles of streets and roads, and at least 1,125,000 houses and shops. There are 32,430 buildings, churclies, and chapels in which marriages can be legally solemnised in England and Wales. The mining population prior to the war was something like 1,150,000. Fully 400,000 of them joined (he navy and army. No European country can produce its own requirements in fat. Germany can only produce some from linseed and (allow. There is no “substitute” for fat. Oils and fats are identical in composition, their only difference being in their- melting point. Mr -1. Tempiemau, father-in-law of (he Mayor of Guilford, Surrey, has joined a local choir, although he is eighly-one years of age. The wealth of the United Stales is now about , £48,000,(100, 000, which is more than the combined wealth of Britain, France and Germany. An old Scots Guardsman, who volunteered for active service throe years ago, and is still serving, has fifteen grandchildren on active service.