NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2161, 10 August 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Stone cannon-balls were used a--i late as 158!). All aerodromes in Germany are now open to British aircraft.

The sun rotates on its axis in about twenty-five days seven hours. The world's output of cocoa is estimated to exceed SCK),D(K),OOtMb. this year.

The sum of £1,3;.)(),.13d,0t)il is invested in the railways of the United Kingdom. The artiticial Itower industry in England is estimated to employ over 10,000 persons. In IUO3 there were but 220 motor owners in Canada. Registrations in 101!) totalled 32-1.880.

British fisheries are more valuable than those of all the other European countries combined. German’ helmets are being used as the base of roadway instead of sobblestones near London. A fortune is being made at Genoa ii, the reclaiming of coal lost overboard while coaling ships. All clouds are within six and ahalf mill's of tile earth. Above that height they do not exist. Asbestos, which is a mineral, conies principally from Canada, South Africa, Russia, and America. !l is estimated that the United Stales has resources sullicienl to provide for 250,001),000 inhabitants.

The only animals living in very drv places which seem able to do entirely without drink arc reptiles, The Atlantic, the second largest of the lour great oceans, has an area of 30,000;000 square miles. Last year the number of visit onto the Loudon Zoological Gardens reached the record total ol 1,;.)15,012.

The ermine fur. with which we are all familiar, is furnished by the stoat, a small animal of the weasel tribe.

In Siberia it winter rainbow sometimes lasts all day. it is caused by line particles of .-now suspended in the air.

The great dam across the Nile at Assuan is one and a-quarler miles in length, ami has 1.80 sluice-gate-.

The British .Museum contains the oldest known examples of Chinese writing, in the form of inscriptions on animals’ bones.