NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2058, 22 November 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Scottish Parliament met. for (he last time in 1707, Serjienls are said to be able to live lor six months without food. A bride in Korea speaks not at all the first day of married life. A negress at Wilmington, C.S.A., is a grandmother at the age of 27. 'Wasps recently swarmed on a goat’s back in Surrey, and slung it to death. In Norway married couples may travel on the railways for a fare and a-half. The first regular daily newspaper was printed at Frankfort, Germany, in 1015. It is a singular fact that, while hares are excellent swimmers, rabbits cannot swim. Mohammedans do not wear silk. As it is the product of a worm they consider it unclean. Inside a 4Mb. brown trout caught near Louth, Lincolnshire, was found a full-grown rat. On Board a steamer, 130 miles off the coast of Brazil, til specimens of moth were taken. Lake Erie produces more fish to the square mile than any other body of water in the world. Nearly 100,000 German officers and men are considered deserters from the German Army during the war. Canaries in their wild state are of a striped greenish colour. The yellow canary is due to breeding. A certain county of Connecticut boasts of its record of having had but two murders in nearly 100 years. Certain tribes of Eskimo have never used salt, and cannot eat food flavoured to the white man’s taste. Certain landholders in Scotland are bound, under monetary penalties, to marry at the King's command. In the alluvial deposits of Madagascar there have been found the remains of ostriches which were 12ft. or 14ft. in height. Natives of the Soudan are raising money for the erection of a medical college at Khartoum as a memorial to Lord Kitchener,