NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1957, 27 March 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Eggs covered with boiling water, and allowed to stand for live minutes, are more nourishing and easily digested than eggs placed in boiling water and being allowed lo boil furiously for three ami a half minutes.

The little island of St. Hilda, the most remote of the Hebrides, is one of the healthiest of all the British isles, it is only when the supply ship arrives (here, as it does two or three times in the summer, that anything happens. Then the whole population catch cold, and are ill for about four days.

One of the most dramatic war endings Avas the conclusion of the Peninsular Mar. Wellington had just Avon Ids triumph at Toulouse, the casualties on both sides numbering some 15,000, and the armies Avere rejoicing or sorrowing, Avhen a tired courier rode up to amiuunco that the Avar had been ended Jive days before Avith the abdication of Napoleon. The greatest bridge in the Avorld, all things considered, .is the cantilever bridge across the Firth of Forth in Scotland, Avith its lavo spans of 1710 feet each and three lowers of 300 feet above the water. The design was made in 1881, and six years was.required for its construction. The bridge has a total length of 8,008 feel, and carries i>, double track railway.