NEWS IN BRIEF.
The French Minister for Marine lias decided that all vessels with a minimum crew of 80 shall be provided with a cinema.
A, camel, when burdened, can travel twenty-live miles a day; when unburdened, as many as sixty to seven!v miles.
The first railway was built for the British coal mines, .11 was a horse car track devised and used early in the sixteenth centurv.
The Indian experimenter, Sir Jagadis C. Hose, is (ho first Indian 1.0 bo made a Fellow of 1 lie Woyal Soeioly for seienlilie rosea roll. Manehesler, which is thirty-five miles IViim (he sea, is, thanks to (he Ship Canal, ilio third greatest' port, in the Knifed Kingdom. Of 1.(170,000 houses in Belgium atthe beginning of the war, (i-1,000 were eompletely destroyed, and 11,000 rendered uninhabitable.
The doctors of Quimpor, a town in Bril any, have formed a trade anion, and have decided not to attend strikers or I heir families.
The wine output of the world is approximately 4,000,000,000 gallons, and of this quantity Europe is responsible for 3,000,000,000 gallons.
Imitation precious stones usually consist of an upper and lower layer of the genuine stone with a thickness of suitably-coloured glass between.
During the first three months of this year, 03,885 alien passengers landed in the United Kingdom, 01,301) embarked, and 182 were refused leave to land.
r’rance placed (100,000.000 francs (nominally £24,000,000) in bets on the racecourses last year, out of which the State received more than 50,000,000 francs. The coinage of the United States minis since the organisation of the Government has amounted to uearlv
(5,000,000,000 jtlocos, valued at over £800,000,000. The largest glass l)otUe ever blown stands Oft. 3in in height, and is capable of holding 108 gallons. The glass is nearly a quarter of an imdi in thickness.
Among the 500 specie's of hummingbirds .some are so liny (hat a full-grown bird, stripped of its feathers, does not exceed the size of a humble bee.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2162, 12 August 1920, Page 1
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327NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2162, 12 August 1920, Page 1
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