NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2040, 11 October 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The prices for perfect scent extracts are high; as -much as £IOO and £2oo'iin ounce in some cases. A pound of genuine violet extract has, before now, been sold for £2,000. A pound of Parma violet essence has ■fetched £350,

The Emperor Charles Y. had. a watch which, weighed 271 b. The watches of that day were very much like ordinary clocks. They were cylindrical in shape, finely chased, and had a hinged lid on one side to expose the dial,,.'"-'" Nothing will induce a skipper of the old school to sail on a Friday. Rumour has it that one intrepid unbeliever who - dared to leave the docks at Grimsby on a. Good Friday was hooted through the lock-gates by the scandalised populace. A man weighing 1501 b, {just under list;) will contain approximately 3i cubic feet of gas—oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen —in his constitution, which at an average price per thousand feet would be worth about 12s for illuminating purposes.

When heated, steel passes through a beautiful range of colours, from the most dazzling, seething yellow to dark yellow, reddish brown, purple, and finally to dark bine, all these temperatures having their particular uses when a tool is “quenched.” j It is estimated that the rabbit-! skin industry in Otago brings in at least £50,000 a week, ami it is accepted as a fact that there is no profiteering in this line. Ihe men who find the rabbits get practical!.' the whole of the. sum, less a fixed, commission.