NEWS IN BRIEF.
The flesh of all varieties of whale, except the “orca” or killer whale, appears to he edible, but the best meal comes from the grey whale and from the so-called “sulphur bottom” variedv.
A low form of vegetable life is said to exist still in some of the deepest craters on the moon, but astronomers can prove sufficiently clearly that human life as we know it does not exist on the moon.
In (he Southern Slates of Brazil the inhabitants scoop the aggs of the white ants out of their ovenshaped nests, and, after having washed and pounded themjase them as a paste to spread on bread.
During the war the .death-rate in battle in the United States Army was 57 per 1,000, and the deathrate from disease was 17 per 1,000. In the Civil War the rates in the Union forces were 33 and G 5 per 1,000 respectively;
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2044, 21 October 1919, Page 1
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153NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2044, 21 October 1919, Page 1
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