NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2023, 2 September 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

—- ; Daylight-.saving was practised in 1700.' . c'V ' Newfoundland is shipping .frozen lish to England. '■ Silver • candlesticks '-were used in Britain in 059 A.D. Over 5 per cent, of the convicts in English prisops are womeli. It is a remarkable fact that .a pigeon coos without opening its bill. The first descent by ■ parachute was made by A. J. Garner in 1797. About 700,000,000 lbs. of silk cocoons are yearly produced all , over the world. , In olden days people used to boil snails in barley water as a cure for a cough. The number of dogs in Great Britain has decreased by 1,000,000 during the war. The peak of TenerilTe, in the Canary Islands, throws a shadow 50 miles across the sea. The art of paper-making was first introduced into Europe by the Moors about the Twelfth Century. The Isle of Man is.large enough to hold all the people on Ike earth on IjtHe more than half its area. A certain M.P. for Harwich once .-mod his constituents for his wages, and the claim was successful. Over 40 per-cent, of the houses at Bilston, Slab’s, are let at rents ranging from 2s (id to 4s (id weekly. In 1918 about 2,(>29,000 tons of fuel oil were shipped from the Lmtcd States for the allied navies in Europe. The lumber production of the I nf|o(l States in 1.918 was 32.7(50,000 feel. The production for 1917 was 30,000,000,000 feel. Heaving is the only sense which is not active in a new-horn child. That—.sense is dormant until tiie third or fourth day. , A woman's chance of marriage is greatest between Hie ages of 20 and 25, when 52 per cent, of marriages take place.

Among the li wild animals destroyed in India in 1017, 1,205 were timers, 0,037 leopards, 2,784 dears, and 2,147 wolves. Uiydi heels are not Parisian in origin, hut: Persian. Their introduction its the women was to raise the feel oft the burning sands.

Taxation beh.ro the war in Great Britain, Pranoe, and Germany was, per head, in the proportion of 73, 80, and -!0 respectively. Industrial disputes during the last three years in the United Kingdom numbered: 101(5. 1,270: 1017, 2,410; 1918, 3,5:18; totalling up to 7,218.

Jn his first interview with the Governor of ,St. Helena, Napoleon said emphatically: "Egypt is the .most important country in the world,”

Illicit stills lii the number of 411 were discovered in Britain in the excise year ending March, ,1018. All, except two in Scotland, were in Ireland.

British merchant shipping’ sunk by the Germans during the wav is officially estimated at having an aggregate tonnage oi 7,(138,020. No charge fur admission is made in many of the Chinese theatres, which depend entirely on the pro tits from the sale of drinks and food products.

The greatest mortality from any disease at: the present lime is from cholera, of whieli ihere is an epidemic in Bombay.. One in every two eases is fatal.

Port Said, the second port in Egypt, unlike Alexandria, is a new creation, having been built in 1850, at the time of the construction of the Suez Canal.