NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1938, 11 February 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The sen is continually beconfing suiter.

In a tenement house in Dublin there are hi voters —all men.

Of a thousand persons, only one readies the age of a hundred years. The violin varies more with the weather than does any other instrument.

Denmark’s pigs have fallen from 2,490,70(1 in July, 1914, to 020,800.

During the war 40 Victoria Crosses were awarded to Canadian soldi-

Sufferers from rheumatism should eat freely of celery, both raw and cooked.

Dr, Joseph Kidd, who attended Lord Beaconslield, has died at the age of 94. A service hook in the Maori language has been prepared by the Church Army.

Antonio Mango, a Sardinian, has received no fewer than 101 wounds in the war.

Paper shirts have been issued to Japanese soldiers as a protection against cold. One of the curious things about the Oulf Stream is that no whales are found in it.

There are 157,000 negroes in the American army, of whom 20,000 were sent to France.

Carmuthen presented its freedom to Mr Lloyd George in a portfolio instead of in a casket. The velocity of the wind varies from (he rate of five miles an hour to 100 miles —a hurricane. American airmen have chosen the word “airnats” as their name, an abbreviation of “aeronauts.”

A caterpillar is so greedy that iu one month it usually devours G,OOO times its own weight in food. War contracts in Spain fur the United Slates affecting orders amounting to £8,000,000 have been cancelled. Four hundred thousand eggs have been collected for the wounded by Mrs Max de Bathe, of Reading, England. Several hundred aeroplanes for use in the mail service have been released by the United Slates War Department. The largest mail-carrying steamer in the world was launched recently. It is 18,000 tons, and is named tho Son Florentine. Two fatal cases of anthrax caught by the use of new shaving brushes are recorded in Chatham's annual health report.

A committee has been formed with a view to the erection of a monument in Pails (o Rougel de Lisle, the composer of the “Marseillaise.” A scientist of Saskatchewan, by the manufacture of gas from wheal straw, has been able to run his automobile with satisfactory results.

An American chaplain recently returned war zone says that 10,000 Americans have married French girls, and more are expected to follow.

Ten pairs of live foxes have been shipped from Prince Edward Island to Japan, with a view to starting the breeding industry in that countrv.

Of soft wood in New South Wales it is said that only 250,000,000 ft. is visible, while 21,000,000 ft. is cut annually, and timber takes 50 years to mature.