NEWS IN BRIEF.
Sparrows have been known to live for 40 years. The llama, like the camel, is known only in a slate of domestication. In the polar regions the sea contains less salt than at the equator. Six thousand children finish their school career cat'll year in London. Hawaii ha.- 600 species of (lowering plants peculiar lo the island itself. In India, if a man Is not married tit. the latest by his 25th year bis reputation suffers, Specimens of the albatross have been found measuring 12ft. from Aving-tip to Aving-tip. A French aeademist estimates that it took 395 shells to kill one man during the Avar.' The sAvalloAv his champions who claim that their bird has flown 129 miles in an hour.
Move than one-half the sugar produced in the avovUl before the war Avas from the sugar beet.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2142, 22 June 1920, Page 4
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141NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2142, 22 June 1920, Page 4
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