NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2184, 2 October 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Lawn tennis only came into existence in 1874.

Therhvare 10,000 wounded men still in hospital in London. One factory in Philadelphia produces 0,(100.000 saws a year. ‘ Potatoes seldom grow larger than marbles in Greenland. In the interior of an ordinary piano there U about a mile of wire. To get one pound of diamonds, nearly ,I(i,000,000 pounds of rick must be treated.

Manufacture of pneumatic tyros in 1020 will bales of cotton. .

About 14,000,000 families in the United States of America own their own homes.

Methylated spirit was recently sold by a Liverpool chemist at a profit of 415 per cent. Soot is doing serious damage to London’s big buildings, by eating away the stone. M'alisend-on-Tyne Haims to have the cheapest gas in the world at ,10’fd per 1,000 cubic feci. A snail, crawling without a pause, would occupy fourteen days and Jive hours to (ravel a mile.

Old age pensions, which com the British Government 112,-425,821 in 1014, have more than doubled. No four-shilling pieces have been coined at the British mint since 1880, and no live-shilling pieces since 1002.

The new tele.-|'ope of the Mount Wilson observatory in California is 250,000 limes more powerful than the human eve.

Output of Indian coal in 1010 was a. little ov r 21.750,000 lons, acompared with 10,8-17,000 in the previous year.

Although there is a..-,-; Hi A. ,| t .- uiand for long haimyl, Hi A, ilie clippings from thru’s heads have no eomm/MUinr value.