NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1928, 18 January 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

The Him of a soap bubble is so thin that' fifty millions of them would he required to make one inch. Shark meat has recently been included in banquet menus in the East, and has been pronounced very palatable. The Egyptians were the first to make use of artificial eyes. They were made of gold, silver, copper, or ivory. Nearly 20,000 British South African natives have been recruited for service behind the lines in France and Flanders. The brine springs at Droitwich (England), are richer in salt than any other water in the world —even than the Dead Sea. The Zeppelin is the only engine of war that is peculiarly and exclusively German by invention and contrivance, and it is a failure. Losses from lire in the United States increased over £8,000,000 last year, due to war conditions and the speeding up of industries." A New York Supreme Court re-

cently awarded' £6,000 for the loss of a right foot, and another Court £s,ooo_for the loss of a husband! Jamaica is to pay £60,000 a year for forty-years from the termination of the war towards the reduction of the Avar debt of the United Kingdom. A thoroughbred that won eight races and £1.509. for his various owners has been sold in the Mai ton Cattle Market, Yorkshire, for Jive and a-half guineas. The British mercantile marine proudly claim that of the first 1,000,000 men sent from the United States to Europe 000,000 were carried in British vessels.