NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1970, 29 April 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Snow does not alleviate (hirst. Visiting eards were lirsl used in France. There arc 509,000 farmers in Great Britain. • Philadelphia has a street made with compressed grass. £IOO,OOO are given away to beggars in London every year. Germany is said to have abolished the (ipt)ing system in her restaurants. The eutton manufacture of Lancashire is the largest industry in the world. The greatest gold mines in the world are the Ivand mines in South Africa. During (he war the naval personnel has grown from .120,000 Lo some 500,(100.' About 5,000,000 ounces of platinum have come upon the market -dice it began lo he mined. Horses, giraffes and ostriches have the largest eyes of any members of the animal kingdom. The peace treaty ending the Fraiico-Pnissinn war of 1870 comprised hut ten flu uses or articles. The rat population of Great Britain on January Ist last, was -10,000.000 —one rai to every human being. When the armi.-uicc was signed then 1 were about -10,000 “Wanes" (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps). The ex-Kaiser possessed about forty pa laces, and had fourteen estates scattered Hi rough seven provinces. New York has 300 lirsl and scc-mid-class holds, with a total of over .100,000 bedrooms and 100,000 employees.