NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1982, 27 May 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manchester has a larger Jewish population than London. Rice is the principal diet of onethird of the human race. In Arabia the horse is a favourite article of flesh food. Russians speak English better than any other foreign nation. More than 1,000 divorce suits Avcre tiled last year in Portland, Oregon. HaAvaii this year, it is estimated, Avill market 5,000,000 cases of pineapples. The ex-Emperor William 11. Avas the first King of Prussia who ever lost his throne. The Amazon drains an area of 2,500,000 square miles —ten times the area of France. In Portugal the ability to read and write is one of the requirements for voters. Armoured trains Avere part of the defences of the east coast of England during the Avar. Although ridiculed as a craze, it is a scientific fact that sour milk conduces to longevity. The Avorld’s most crooked river is the Jordan, which Avandors nearly 220 mil.es to cover 00, The number of coavs in Denmark decreased by 200.000, or by 20 per cent., during the last year. Lake Erie produces more fish in proportion to its surface area than any other body of water in the world.White wedding dresses are com-

paratively modern. Daring the middle ages crimson Avas the bridal colour.

India holds the record for images. It has been estimated that there arc quite. 300,000 images of the various gods there. Men and women avlio Avork among lavender, gathering it or distilling it, seldom have neuralgia or nervous headaches.

Spanish paper money bears the portraits of great literary men, painters, musicians, generals, and other notables of the nation.

EartliAvorms have no eyes, but the ends of their mouths are sensitive to light. They can thus distinguish betAveen night and day. An otficer Avith great experience of army horses says that roans are the hardiest, the best-looking, most even-tempered, and easiest to train. It is said that there are t-oday in A'arious European com’ents more than thirty princesses, members of many of the great ruling houses in Europe. There is every prospect that some of (lie amusing trench papers produced by the TTeneh soldiers Aviil survive the Avar and continue their publication in Paris.

A food scientist slates that one and a-lmlf pints of milk Avith half a pound of pea Hour would supply all the essential ingredients fora whole day’s food.

The first attempt to transport the mails by air is credited to the British, under whose auspices (be experiment Avas made with varying success in India in 1011. Loch Lomond, for the first time in 24 years, lias been frozen over from Balloch Pier to Inch Murrian Island, a distance of about three and a-Jmlf mites.