NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1962, 8 April 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The firs! steamship crossed the .Atlantic in 1819. The world's census of shoe]) iwell over 459,999.099. Eighty per cent, of the population of Russia arc peasants. There are I.ODH.DOD square miles of unexplored polar region. Al 2.990 ft. there is a perpetual smoke screen over Sheffield. Greater London’s food bill amounts to nmre than £6, 000,000 a. week. Police warnings to boy smokers are to appear in London tobacco simps. fa JitLS, 1,189 persons were killed by automobiles m (be Slate ol New York. The total number of births in, Germany in .1010 was about 40 per cent, less than in 1913. Japan's exports for .1.918 amounted (o £ 1.09,800,090, and her imports to £100.800,099. The men of Portugal, as a class, have the reputation of being the best dressed in the world. An Italian decree aulliorises Hie issue of iron and nickel coins in substitution for copper coins. At a depth of 45ft. under the ground the temperature of the earth is uniform throughout the year. The combined population of South. America, including Venezuela and the Guiauas, is about 55,037,152. JamaiVn is said to contain about five hundred species of ferns, or one-sixth of the ferns of (lie whole: world.