NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2140, 15 June 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pistols are said to have been invented in T 545.

The Avorld’s shortage of coal is 107,500,000 tons. Thirty thousand cubic' feel of air Aveighs roughly one ton.

Caterpillars six inches long have been found in Australia.

The Panama Canal avus opened to commerce on August 15th, 1914.

The tAventy-six aldermen of the City of London are chosen for life. The rateable value of London has just been quoted at £15,540,751.

The ('dour yellow is said to have a, very beneficial effect on the health. The tortoise is supposed to live to be anything betAveen 390 and 100 years old.

The per capita grain consumption in Italy exceeds that of any other European country.

Drunkenness is -worst among those faces to Avliom alcohol has been imrodned most recently. London’s education bill for the year ending March, 1921, is estimated at over £10,000,000.

The population of Alberta, the Canadian province, averages iwo persons per square mile of territory.

The letters £ s. d. arc the initials of the Latin Avords librae, sohdi, denarii, which mean pounds, shillings, pence. Camel’s hair brushes arc not made of the hair of camels, but of hairs from the tails of Russian andjSiberian squirrels. A horse does not live much more than twenty-seven years, and it: hard-worked would probably not live as long its that. Of the land under cultivation in England, only one ncre in seven is devoted to the direct production of food for human beings. King George rules over more Mohammedans than the Sultan nl furkey, and over more Hebi'CAV:- than there sire in Palestine.

In May of 190(i the police told the Chesterfield magistrates that the car they challenged avus “Hying” at the rate of three miles a minute.

Besides London and Xew lork, the only other cities that have passed 2.000,000 in population are Paris, Chicago, Petrograd, Tokio, Berlin, and Vienna.