NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1964, 12 April 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A memorial tu Simon d-,; Montforl, wlm.-c forces were defeated in the battle of Evesham, 12(55, when he fell, is to be unveiled at Evesham (Worcestershire). The French Government has been invited to arrange with I lie Allied Governments for the creation of an international medal and ribbon in commemoration of Hie war. Finland’s merchant licet, whose gross tonnage before the war was 470,00(1 (mis. has been reduced by one-sixth during the war. The loss is estimated at £2,800,000. Versailles, its palace and gardens,, are said lo have,cost anything from £40,000,000 to £(50,000,000. The exact amount will never he known, as it is said that Louis XIV. (the “great monarch”) who was ih<i pioneer in I lie const ruction of Versailles. was so scared when ho saw the bills come in that he tore them up so that no one should know of the enormous expenditure. The first reference to a magic lantern is generally believed to be that made by one Athanasius Kirch-i er, in his hook published in IG4G, In IGGS, a “learned Dane” exhibited such a lantern, which was doubtless much like the modern one. The first magic lanterns were made in Eng- _ .bind, by Philip Carpenter, in 1808, but it is much more recently than that the lantern has been sufficiently improved to be such a valuabhi help to teachers, in the class-room.