NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1987, 7 June 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Actual workers in Russia under Bolshevism number only 3,000,000, according to the Bolshevist organ Isvestyia.

The total value of enemy property seized in the United States is estimated at between £140,000,000 and £160,000,000.

From September, 1916, up to October 12th, 1918, 1,486,686 rats and 47,730 iguanas were destroyed on the Island of Guam.

Built of concrete on a rock foundation, a large reservior at Rosyth will hold about 60,000,000 gallons of oil fuel for warships. The prehistoric art museum lately revealed in Southern France contains rock engravings estimated to be 30,000 years old.

A recent invention in France is an electric clock that runs without attention as long as its battery is in good condition.

Chicago has a Norwegian population larger than that of any Norwegian city except Bergen and Christiania —about 75,000. A field-marshal of the British Army never retires, but remains on the active list and draws full pay until the day of his death.

Austrians in the invaded provinces of Italy damaged 431 industrial plants, causing a total damage of more than £11,350,000.

Marriages of American soldiers in occupied Germany cannot lie permitted, according to a decision of (ho United States Third Army Command. The invention of bells is attributed to the Egyptians, who are credited with having made use of percussion instruments to announce the sacred fetes of Osiris.

M. Fokker, the Dutchman who invented the German war aeroplane, lias relumed to Holland from Germany, desirous of ronaturalisaliun to Dutch citizenship. The deepest coal mine in the world is at Mens, the town where the Allies fought so gallantly at I lie beginning of the war. The pit there is over 4,000 feel deep. Lieutenant Porten, a German airman, is to be tried at Berlin for having sold in November bmt a whole aeroplane park at Vihia for £99,400 to the Bolsheviks. A survey made by the United States Employment Service indicates that approximately 1,500,000 women wefb doing men’s work at the close of the war.

As a means of conserving lubricating oil, which during llic war became very scarce in Sweden, practically all machinery was equipped with ball bearings. The word “magnet” is derived from the name of the city of Megnoisa, in Asia Minor, where the properties of the loadstone are said to have been discovered.

Water is a great conductor of sound. A hell which could he heard four or five miles on land would, if submerged and sounded, he heard sixty miles under (he sea.

No bird is allowed within the walls of (lie While House. This was due to the wife of President Hayes, who made it a rule,.for she disliked to see any birds caged.

When the earth is well covered with snow the temperature of the ground rarely falls below freezing point, although the air may he fifteen or twenty degrees colder.

In Unyoro, British East Africa, the natives can marry on the instalment plan, hut the wife is not to be delivered to (lie purchaser until the last instalment is paid.