GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2057, 20 November 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A queue of 200 people lined up outside a house at West Fading in which there were three unfurnished rooms lu let, The French airman Malicon haitowu twice under (he Bridge of Mir, near Nice, in a Caiutron biplane 11 yards wide. The arch of the bridge is 20 yards wide and only 0 yards high.

The first airplane funeral in Toronto look place when the remains of Baby Leonard Allen, sou of Martin Allen, were carried by the airplane to Mount Pleasant cemetery, four miles from the child's homo. A second airplane, containing an employee of the funeral director, followed. The parents- of .the child motored to the cemetery. Foreign demand for motor cars is being taken advantage of by- thieves who are doing a good export business. It is reported from New York thaWaboul 90 per cent, of the ears stolen and nut recovered are being exported. A fence for stolen cars has been found in Cuba, from which port the cars have been ex-" ported to other parts of the world. An idol, pronounced officially by the Smithsonian, Institute, Washington, to be- of Aztec origin and at least 10,000 years old, lias been dug up in a sandpit near Eureka, Montana, The idol is of stone, it is evidently of a god, and sits on its legs with its hands folded in its lap. The thing lias a Chinese look, but photographs sent to Washington brought a reply that it is an Aztec idol. The sculpturing is of a high character. The question now is, how did the Aztec idol get to Montana ?

Gleaning went oul o(' fashion with the disappearance <>l‘ tlie old windmills watermills, because cottagers can no longer get their gleaned coni ground. But the “harvest bell,’’ which notifies to the villagers when they may begin gleaning and when they must cease, is, it seems, still rtyig in some rural parishes within reach of London. .At Farnham, in Essex, the “gleaning bell’’ rings from the tower of the parish church at 0 u.ra. and 5 pan., as soon as the harvest is sufficiently advanced. One penny is paid to the bell-ringer by each family that gleans, so ho can hardly bo nailed a profiteer.