NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2207, 25 November 1920, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A race of pygmies recently discovered in the Belgian Congo are only 4ft. in height, and very like apes in appearance; yet they neither lie nor steal, and will marry only one wife.

The salary of an American Ambassador to Great Britain is only £3,500, compared with the £IO,OOO (excluding entertainment allowance) which England gives her Ambassador to Washington. The British Foreign Office recently approved without a question a refund to the Egyptian Government of £OO,OOO. Later is was found that there had been a clerical error, and the sum should be £O,OOO. The Great Wheel, which for over 20 years has been a familiar sight to visitors to -Paris, and has given thousands of them a bird’s eye view of the city, is to disappear. The work of dismantling has already begun.

Animals have nol all the same means of regulating bodily temperature. Dogs and cats sweat chiolly from the pad of the feci; pigs mostly on the snout. But some, such as rats and rabbits, do not perspire at all.

Liverpool has now eompleled TOO of'(be (olal of 1,200 now houses which are being provided. Some of (he occupiers took in their furniture before the paint was dry. Tire applicants for the bouses numbered 14,000. Carlsbad, the famous health resort, is built on a crust, underneath which is a subterranean lake of boiling water. The hot sulphur springs have to be ceaselessly watched and the pressure kept down, lest the town he destroyed. In the British Museum are to be seen 1.0.U.’s which go back to 2,500 B.C. In the Assyrian and Egyptian department there are a number ot (day (ablets recording trading and loan transactions of Babylonian civilisation 4,000 years ago.

Wives whose husbands were killed in the war lose their pensions when they re-marry. Nevertheless, war widows in {treat Britain are, remarrying at the rale of 2,000 a month. It this rale continues, they will all he re-married hy the end of 1027. No more grinding of teeth with WADE’S WORM FIGS.,