NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2167, 24 August 1920, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Scribbled note on a scrap of paper lias been accepted in a Californian court as the will of Gastav Westerholm, a marine engineer, leaving all his property to Jessie Limon, fifteen years old, a schoolgirl. The girl works after school hours at an hotel, and her diligence so impressed Wcslcrhohn, who stopped there one night, that he left his estate to her.

The Bank of England counts among its distinctions the rather strange one of being the only unlicensed premises in London with the right to brew and sell beer. Thirty-five years ago Japan had 200 factories, employing 15,00 P people; now there are 25,000 factoremploying 2,000,000 people, of whom 850,000 are women. Sunday-mlsland, in the Pacific, is really the tallest mountain in the world. If rises 2,000 feet out of five miles of water, and is thus nearly 30,000 feet from base to summit.

“I’ve got no use for barbers,” declared Henry Kierie, a Finn, wheu charged with vagrancy in an English police court. Kierie said he was 27 years old. His hair flowed down to his shoulders, and his face was hidden behind a tangle of whiskers. Kierie would not respond to questioning, and declined to state why ho evaded the barbers. He said he had no religion. “I’ll fine you two shillings,” said Judge Fitzgerald, “but you needn’t pay it if you will get a hair cut and have your whiskers trimmed.” Kierie went back to gaol.