NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1988, 10 June 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

There are 8,800 American soldiers in Siberia.

Belgian ea.sualties during' the war were 102,882. Great Britain ha* 5,400 square miles of coal fields.

The world uses, nearly 2,000,000,000 lead pencils a year.

At once time in Switzerland eggs were used as money.

France spenl £00,000,000 on artillery during the war.

Aiithrupodmorpholugically is the longest word in English. The best protection' of plants from being frost-bitten is snow.

Leathern coins were in in use in France in the fourteenth century.

Bavarian poachers have shot 70 gamekeepers since (he revolution.

Bank notes were issued in China 2,807 years before the Christian

The retina of the eye retains an image for two forty-fifths of a second.’

A monument is to he erected at Vigo in memory of Spanish sailor victims of U-hoals.

Whistler's painting “Lady Meux” lias been purchased fOr approximately £40,000. It is a curious fact that notwithstanding its thickness, (he elepha - nt's skin is verv sensitive.

Foundations are being started for a new; building in New York with an aeroplane rout landing. Of 50,000 Jews who served in the war, five won the V.C., over 1,000 .the D.C.M., and 250 the M.M. The suicide rate of Germany Avas, before the Avar, the highest in (he Avorld —21 per 100,000 yearly. Lumber production in (ho United Stales in 1.018 was 3,000,000.000 ft. less than the 1017 production. Italy is to have a ugav port near Voltri, Gulf of Genoa, to cost £5,800,000, and to ho completed in 12 years. Britain sacrificed one-half of her merchant marine ami two-thirds at least of her foreign trade, during the Avar.

New South Wales Government is arranging (o sol lie 200 returned soldiers in vineyards on (he Hunter River.

English farms produce 1.050,001) lons of meat annually, which is just sufficient jo give a pound a week to each poison. A dowering plan!, according to scientists, abstracts from (he soil 2ao times its own weight in water during its lire, 11 of ore the war, song canaries wove reared in Germany: now most Oi the singing birds are produced in England. ’

| During flie war. 30 destroyers, 100 mine's weepers and 12 new types t of submarines were added to the ■ British navy. j There are about ; .jx limes as j many motor cars ami trucks in the ( railed Slates now than there were I j sovon y(*;;rs ,i^n. Oil March Ist the acreage in France of cereal craps under cidtiration was about 30 per cent, less than normal pre-war acreage.

The Simplon tunnel was begun in It.'OO. raid 15 years 'Acre occupied in completing the whole length of twelve and one-third miles. To electrify the whole of I lie. Swedish railway system bv electricity from water-power w!!i take 30 years, and cost more than £10,000,000.

.More than two million lons of shipping were added to (he British navy during the war-, at a cost of between £250,000,000 and £300,000,000.