NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Polish alphabet contains forty-five letters.
An ant can carry several limes its own weight with ease. The tip of the tongue is the most sensitive part of the body. The women of China are becoming habitual patrons of the cinema. One pound of dried tea represents about four pounds of fresh-gather-ed leaves.
Less than 50 per cent, of tl\g people struck by lightning are fatally injured. In an ordinary book the let lor Z will occur, on an average, twice in 3,000 words.
Cashmere shawls arc manufactured from the hair of a diminutive goat found in Tibet. The sum of £123,000,000 is spent yearly in Great Britain on pensions ami allowances.
The Antarctic is the shallowest of the oceans, the depth averaging 2,000 fathoms or less. Among the aborigines oE the Andaman Islands skulls of; relatives are worn round the neck.
Sunspots recently observed are estimated to have covered nearly 500,000,000 square miles each.
One central station in Germany is supplying elecricity for light and power to IGfi villages.
The estimated cost of the official naval history of the war is £23,000, and of the air history £IO,OOO. The total cost of St. Paul’s Cathedral was £747,954 2s 9d, which amount was discharged by coal taxes.
The only relies which London possesses of*the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough are a pair of kettle-drums.
One of the greatest dykes in Holland is forty miles in length, and has been holding back the water for centuries.
A mussel recently gathered on the Welsh coast contained seven pearls, the largest being twice the size of a pin -head.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2147, 8 July 1920, Page 4
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270NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2147, 8 July 1920, Page 4
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