NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2076, 10 January 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

A watch, on the average, has 175, parts. Galileo made the first, telescope 300 years ago. Squirrels’ hair makes a fine quality artist’s brush. There are 700 pieces of wood in a single aerpplane wing. 1 'The total war costs have been estimated at £40,000,000,000. The average cow consumes in a day 100 pounds of green food. English coal-beds, it has been stated, wall be exhausted in 1905. Lifeboats saved 200 vessels round the English coast during the war. Those fish which sleep do so with their eyes open, as they have no eyelids. In order to make a pound of silk it takes 1150 worms, going at full speed. Oil which is used in the manufacture of soap is now made from tomato seeds in Italy. Wine-tasters, employed in their professional duties, seldom swallow the wine they taste. Lettuce acts as a sedative upon the human frame, owing to the opium in its milky juice. Due to the Avar, 30,000 English raihvay waggons at least are out of use owing to lack o’f repair. Plum pudding avus almost unknoAvn in England before the middle of the seventeenth century. The harbour of Rio do Janeiro has fifty miles of anchorage, and is said to be the finest in the avox’Kl.