NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2055, 15 November 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The thumb nail is the slowest growing l nail on the hand. There are to-day about 23,000,000 lied Indians in America. The hand of a normal-sized human being 1 contains 25,000 pores. Gas pipes, measuring over 2,000 miles, run under the streets of London. More than 5 per cent, of all the convicts in English prisons are women. England expects to realise £200,000,000 a year from the (ax on alcoholic beverages. Cigars- that ai*e sometime,<- 18in. in length are smoked by Ihe natives of the Philippines. London Bridge.is crossed every day by 110,000 foot passengers and 22,000 vehicles, , Turquoises are thus called because the first specimens came- to Europe by way of Turkey. The sky reflection of the light of London has- been seen in favourable weather. 50 miles distant. In Egypt the telephone operators are required to speak English, Italian, French, Greek and Arabic. Certain Parisian tailors regularly issue fashion-plates containing the designs for clothing for pet dogs. The ancient Greeks, one of the most intellectual of natiohs,, were distinguished for their small heads. There is* a city on the coast of Southern California which is wholly built on stilts, and where no rent is paid.