NEWS IN BRIEF.
The human hand, from the wrist to the end of the middle linger, is one tenth of the total height of a man of- perfect proportions. Last year 8,(522 new hooks were published in the United Kingdom, or 90(i more than in the previous year. In 1914 there were 11,537 new books. The_Mexican pelado (poor class of native) has solved the problem of the final disposition of discarded automobile tyres. He uses them for shoes. The English law is that a child born in England or within (ho British dominions is a British subject, whatever the nationality of the child’s parents. A fabric closely resembling silk is .now being manufactured from trees that arc natives of the tropical regions of Asia, Arnica and South America. America has expended a vast amount of oratory on the subject of (he Peace Treaty, 7,300,000 words being spoken in the Semite last summer and fall.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2114, 13 April 1920, Page 1
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154NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2114, 13 April 1920, Page 1
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