NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1932, 28 January 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

London was the first city to uso coal. The Seaforth Highlanders were first, raised in 175(1. There are 200,990 Boy Scouts in, the United Kingdom. A nightingale’s song can he heard at a distance of a mile. The modern system of fortifications was adopted about 1,590, 11 is said that freckles are frequently due to hud digestion. The thread of a silkworm is cue(liosuandlh of an inch (hick. The Paris sewers are the largest and the most complete in I lie world. The nations richest in horses are the Argentine Republic and Uruguay. The new Curtis biplane makes the enormous speed of 11.9 miles an hour. The largest watch in the United States weighs 1151 h.; the smallest 113 oz. Troy. The Grand Fleet and the escort services consume 7,900,000 tons of coal a year. It is believed that Stonehenge was erected 1,700 years before the birth of Christ. To main tain the Red Cross Society costs £9 a minute, or more than £13,000 a day. Proof of his will discloses that Paul Cinquevalli, the famous juggler, has left £26,217. Frogskin has been very successfully used in grafting on granulating wounds in the wav. A soap bubble is round because every part of its surface is equally pressed hy the atmosphere. The porcupine is so called because his mime comes from two Latin words meaning a thorny pig. The apple grows wild in the Sandwich Islands. There are forests of them, most of them neglected.

The tone of a hell or glass can he stopped hy (lie linger, because (he vibrations are tints checked.

A tuning fork does not sound in a vacuum, because there is no air to convey the vibrations to our ears. The oldest railway in France runs between Paris and Havre. It was built more than half a century ago. A Katherliam (Yorkshire) postman lias completed 45 years’ unbroken service, during which he has walked 153,000 miles. The total expemlilurc hy the British National Service Department up to July litli was £103.118, of which £84,49.1. weal on advertising.

It is estimated that the coal mines already developed contain so much coal that it will lake the world a thousand vears to consume it.

The guinea-pig grows more quickly than any other quadruped. It is full grown when six weeks old, and begins to hear young at two months. Fifty young ia four litters is the record of a Flemish giant rabbit. The animal, which is only one year old, is owned by a schoolboy in (Jobbum, Surrey.

Gu ground which before the war was used for football in Yorkshire, the crop this year is likely to produce from 20 to 25 tons of potatoes to the acre.

Lightning has severely damaged a tree, introduced from China in 1751, and known as "the tree of heaven,” on the lawn of Burwood House, Gobhain, England. The first horseless carriage was invented in Paris in 1748 hy Vaucanson, and its operation was witnessed hy Louis NV. it was moved hy a large clock spring.

A Montreal bank lias been held by the court to he blameless for losses growing out of advice given to an investor hy the manager of its investment department.