NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2031, 20 September 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The world’s total shipping is 37,000,000 tons.

The bowler hat was worn by the ancient Greeks. The two-wheeled bicycle came in--to vogue about 1880, -An apron is the .first article. ot‘ .clothing mentioned in history. Glasgow is to have a special staff of ‘‘fly-lighters,” who will wear uniform.

Italy has 4,800,000 lemon trees, which produce 1,200,000,000 lemons per annum.

Pa ssengers using . vehicles in London highways have traided during idle last 15 years. The daylight saving law in the United States saved 1,000,000 tuns of coal during the war. The domestic goose is a long-liv-ed bird. Many instances are known of geese attaining forty years. The. first English viscount was John Lord Beaumont. He was created viscount by patent in 1440, - In South America it is said tlfcrc is a race of cats to which “meow-’ ing” is an unknown accomplishment.

The clothes in which Lord Nelson died on board the Victory are still preserved at Greenwich Naval Hospital. The famous King Charles statue in Whitehall, London, was protected firm air-raid danger at a cost of £450.