NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1945, 27 February 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A baby horn at Birmingham with its heart outside its body, hut attached there to hy two small tidies, has died. In other respects the child was normal. There have been only three or four such cases reported in the last 590 years. A daring Jcavcl robbery was committed at a shop in AVhileelmpei. A well-dressed woman, after being sluiAvn some rings, run off with a tray of I hem Avorlli .C. 1,300. A similar theft occurred, in the same district a Aveek before. No arrest was made.

A rigorous audit has heen ordered of the expenses of “Comrade” ■Ant on off, one of the greatest Bolshevist dignitaries and commander of the Southern army, Avho has spent in a relatively short time--100,000,000 roubles, n’bmimtlly £lO,000,000. A remarkable bird found in Mexico is the bee-martin, Avhieh has a trick of ruffling up the feathers on lop of its head into the exact resemblance of a beautiful flower; Avhon a hee comes along to sip honey from the supposed llowcr it is snapped up by the bird.

Pneumatic tyres were the outcome of a device used by an Irish doctor to diminish the jolting of an invalid chair for a patient of his. He fastened around the Avheels a piece of ordinary garden hose filled with Avator. Instead of water, air was afterwards used with improved results.

At (he morgue in Paris, where are laid out the bodies of the unidentified victims of unsolved crimes, detectives are told off to Avateh the croAvd of visitors avlio come to look at the ghastly remains, for it is avcll known that murderers have a peculiar fascination in seeing the dead bodies of their victims again. A somewhat strange coincidence has been noted in Jamaica, where, in the district of Portland, an earthquake on August 4th, 1914, preceded hy a feAV hours the ucavs of the deciarntion of war. On the morning of November 11th, 1918, an earthquake'in the same area was felt, shortly before the report of the signing of the armistice arrived.

The earliest (rain ferries Avere designed by British engineers. One of the first avus that installed across the River Nile in the fifties of the lust century, Avhile those between Gran!mi and Burntisland on the Firth of Forth, and across the River Tay, Avhieh preceded the building of bridges across these estuaries, wove established as long ago as 18(30.