NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2206, 23 November 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There-arc mure than 12,001) varieties of orchids.

The average life of an oyster is about 10 year-. There are 3,000 women ministers in the United Slates,

A watch so small that it can be worn in a finger-ring is fashion’s latest- fancy.

The Match Tax brought the British Exchequer nearly ,£3.400,000 last year. A skilled worker can (urn out about throe dozen artificial Hies for fishing in a day. The cost of Columbus’ expedition that led to the discovery of America was £1,400. Salt-water bathing is to be brought to Paris by means of a pipe line connection to the sea. Stucco is being applied on outside walls of houses in England by means of air pres-ure guns.

The rooms of the Shakespeare hotel in Stratford-on-Avon are named after the plays of the poet. In Japan burning or hanging in effigy is still regarded as a means of punishment to faithless lovers. The 400 English sheep seirt out to the peasants of the battlefields of the Marne are all doing remarkably well.

A public clock at New Barnet,. England, lately struck two or three thousand limes continuously during the night. There is not much difference between the average life of a dog and of a cal. A dog averages 12 years. and a c:;t 10.

When the war broke out, the number of automobiles in use in Canada was 67,415, but to-day the number is 400,000.