NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2155, 27 July 1920, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There Avcre no barracks in England until 1793,

There tire over (iOO private schools in London. Soft water is Avaler minus any organic matter.

Witr pvoliteers arc to be faxed in Czeeho-Slovakin.

Tuesday is considered unlucky for Aveddiugs in Spain. The word “aristocracy'-’ originally meant the rule of the best men. Payment of £4OO a year to British M.’sP. costs about £280,000 a year. The house-sparrow is estimated to lly at the rate of nearly 75 nples per hour, A law lias been promulgated in Cairo declaring aerodromes a State monopoly. Tests recently made go to prove that disease germs cannot: live Jong on melal.

. The British Government has appropriated £3,000,000 to encourage civilian aviation. The archer iisli has been knoAvn to squirt a drop of water from its month as far as five feet.

Silver mining has re-started at Trefriw, North Wales —the only •silver ore mine in Britain.

A hairpin was used for emergency operations several times by Army during’ the war. The Bank of England was established in 1091, making it the oldest national bank of Europe. The" Saturday half-holiday was the rule in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

It is suggested that several prisons in Sweden should be closed, owing to a dearth of prisoners.

The British museum contains a large spider crab measuring eighteen feet- across its outstretched legs. The population of Belgium at the beginning of .1919 was 7,555,570, females being in a majority of 73,510.

A Marconi dictionary just issued includes 3,000 words dealing with wireless telegraphy and telephony.

An attachment for alarm clocks to awaken deaf persons by jarring their beds has been invented in Europe.

Before the war Austria-Hungary was one of the most important lumber producing countries in the world.

The total daily consumption of water for every purpose in New York City, approximates 660,000,000 gallons. A family of six who could live comfortably in Wales on £2 10 6d per week now require £7 11s Bd, without coal, A new invention for motorists is an attachment to the petrol-tank which whistles when the petrol is getting low. The area of the British Empire is 13,000,000 square miles; that of the Roman Empire was 1,600,000 square miles.

In view of tlie high price of boots and shoos, a league in favour of the use of sandals- has been formed in many Spanish towns. Ostrich feathers valued at £350,720 were imported into England from South Africa during the first three months of this year. “How not to get run over” is fhe title of pamphlets being supplied to London County Council schools for the guidance of the children. Grass hoppers are reported as having been picked up in swarms at sea, in some eases no less than 1,200 miles from the nearest land, A friend for v you! NAZOL instantly relieves coughs and colds. Get a Nazol Inhaler.