NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1930, 23 January 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The first steamer was built in Ireland in 1820. There are over 5,000 solicitors in practice in London. A Russian does not become of age until he is twenty-six. More than 18,000 dugs have served on British battlefields. A lly buzzes its wings at Ihe rate of 325 times a second. A Chinese genius has devised a system of Chinese shorthand. Fumigation by tobacco smoke will destroy insects on plants. . As a rule a man’s hair turns grey five years sooner than a woman’s. The skslelon measures one inch less than the height .of the living man. A goat lives ten years, and gives an average of a quart of milk a day. The average Englishwoman is two inches taller than the American woman. The man-power of the United Slates includes 000,000 negroes of all hues. Subscriptions of New Zealanders to War Loans amount to over £4O per head. Salicylate of sodium is one of the best remedies to counteract bloodpoisoning. Water used last year for cleaning and watering the London streets cost £1,844. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was educated at a Church school in North Wales. Every six minutes a merchant vessel arrives and another departs from American purls. The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters, while the Tartarian is made up of 202 characters. Sheep thrive best in a pasture infested with moles, because of the heller drainage of the land. Two thousand soldiers at the front were candidates for the Church of England ministry. It is claimed that twenty sheep are required to provide sufficient; wool to keep one soldier dollied. Boiled water tastes Hat and insipid because the gases it contains have been driven off by heal. Two hundred thousand pounds of lemon-drops arc rationed each month to the United Slates Army. The printing ink used on the Bank of England notes gels its deep black lint from naptha smoke. An elephant’s sense of smell is so delicate that it can scent a human being at a distanceof 1,000 yards. Red hair is of that colour because it is supposed to have a larger proportion of sulphur than black hair. Fifty million ovslcrs always lie on the Whilstablc beds, and the sales sometimes amount to £200,000 a year. Ladies’ silk dresses sometimes contain tin to make them rustle, and only the microscope can detect its presence. Two Lincolnshire farm labourers have brought up 20 children out of 35 born, 20 of these being out at work. * In the lighting towards Damascus, one section of Arabs marched seventy miles in’lwenty-four hours, fighting part of the way. Plans for an aerial tire-lighting unit, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, are announced from Ban Diego, California. A hoy named Ronald Cain, of Codicole (Herts), sou of a wellknown Liverpool brewer, runs a cinema show of his own for charities. The Malay States have contributed 1,000 officers lo the army and navy, one Dreadnought, 30 lo JO aeroplanes, and £2,000,000 War Loan. it has been discovered that by cutting frozen sheep and telescoping them a saving of 35 per cent, cun he made in shipment and storage space. As a means uf preserving the memory of fallen M’s.P., Mr Churchill suggests a name-plate on (he back of the seals they had in the House. Two brothers, serving in the Colonial Forces, who had not met for ten years, recently found themselves in adjoining cots in a Surrey hospital. A man's full menial power is not reached before the age of 25, and the development of talent is must marked between the ages of 30 and 45 years. It Inks seven days after death, according to Siamese belief, for the soul to reach heaven, and prayers are kept up during that period to help it on its way.