NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2137, 8 June 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ordinary white bread contains 40 per cent, of water. The wedding ring was .originally worn on the thumb. An ounce of tobacco will fill the average pipe sixteen times.

Silver is the earliest currency mentioned in the Scriptures, . There are more than 90,000 trained nurses in the United Kingdom.

Oarsmen in the early days of the University boat races rowed in tophats.

Since the start of the war, shillings to the value of £8,35(5,(5(58 have been coined. ' America’s motor ear manufacturers now have a capacity of 7,250 motor ears per day. America, in IS) 1(5, produced twothirds of the total amount of oil in the whole world. Women are said to be not only proposing in America, but even paying the marriage fees. In proportion of its weight, the wing of a bird is twenty limes stronger (hah the arm of a man. A silent, keyless clock, which contains only four wheels and no springs, has recently been patented. Krupps (Essen) em'ploycd 80.000 hands before the war. This grew to 3 15,000, and now stands at -15,000.

In olie night recently 4(5 fishing boats caught 12,000,000 mackerel 'off the Cornish coast, breaking nil records.

Alexandra Palace, London, has a Grand Hull which will seal 32,000 persons, in addition to iin orchestra of 2,000. Tobacco weighing 35,000 tons will he accommodated in new warehouses being built in the Victoria Docks, London. Nearly forty tier cent, of the babies horn in England are now exempt-ed-from vaccination because their parents object. Glycerine weighing 2,130 lons was recovered from the waste fat of army food in England in the three years 191(5 —1918.

The world’s babies born every twenty-four hours are more than siiilieient to repeople Bourneiimnta; they number, in fact, 82,200.

The longest word in English in which the vowels a, e, i, <>, u, all occur, once each, in alphabetical order, is Ahsteminously. In Canada’s 3,730,000 square miles there is room for the entire world’s population, allowing nearly one and one-half acres for each person. London’s daily water consumption is 209,000,000 gallons, and an expert estimates that at least 4,000,000 gallons a day are absolutely wasted.