NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2041, 14 October 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ale was used as a beverage in 104 B.C.’

A salmon has been known to produce 10,000,000 eggs. Leigh-on-Son lias a floating refreshment house for the use of bathers. -

Electricity gives employment to over 10,000,000 of (he world's peo-

Durlng- the pasl three years 1/3,000 persons have emigrated lo Canada from (he United Slades. Sweden Ims formed a company lo investigate the goldliclds said lo have been discovered in Lapland. New houses, prior to Ihe Avar, covered some .1,103 acres in London and suburbs on an average everv vear.

Over one-ha If of Ihe merchandise exported from the United Slates in 1948 came to' British territory.

Ten goals’ fleeces arb reqnirufl to make a cashmere shawl, which lakes three men six months lo complete.

The cx-Kaiscr’s palace in Berlin ;it one time kepi 50(1 housemaids and 1,800 liveried fool men in employment'.

Pod-shaped bacteria are called bacilli; 50.000,000 of these placed side by side Avould measure hut an inch. ""

South Africa has morCTh-an 32.000,000 sheep, producing annually more than 170,000,000 pounds, of wool.

The red hat of a cardinal is said to cost him at least £500; in some cases more than a king pays for his crown!

There are plants which eat and drink, some which bleed A\iien buried, and others that are senlilive to the slii/lilesl touch.

Georges Ponliquen, on November 2nd, 1012, at Paris, remained under water for (hum. 20 4-5 secs. This is the world’s record. Sail to the extent of 5,000,000 square miles, with a layer one mile in thickness, is the estimated result of the sea drying up.

Chimpanzees almost invariably rinse out their mouths after eating, and a certain young orang-outang always used a tooth-pielfc A few years ago a flood of beer broke loose from a brewery in London, and 0,000 gallons rushed in a cataract down the streets, overl a Ivin,g and drowiting people.

In I lie West Indies and throughout Centra! America the caterpillar of the so-called cabbage palm-tree is served up as one of the most inviting morsels obtainable. Only some 113,000 tons of herrings caught by British vessels in 1013 were actually ealen in LOU!. The remaining 408,000 tons were exported, chiefly to Germany and Hussia.