NEWS IN BRIEF
The average life of a coin is 25 years. Drops of water cannbt touch redhot iron. Chicago has 4,957 miles of streets and alleys. The Forth Bridge contains 48,000 tons of steel. England has about 3,000,0U0 acres of woodland. The ex-Kaiser has founded a hospital at Amerongen. A
Afore herrings are eaten than any other kind of lish. Coin-in-the-slot machines dale hack to about 200 B.C. - New York got its first (ire engines from England in 1731. In 1839 Englishmen wrote, on an average, only three letters a year. A mosquito lias 22 teeth, all of which may be seen through a microscope, A San Francisco lady possesses a unique collection of 240 books on etiquette.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2227, 15 January 1921, Page 1
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119NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2227, 15 January 1921, Page 1
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