NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2234, 3 February 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

An enormous secret trade in cocaine lias developed in Germany. During 1920 there have been 104 unsolved murders in Xew York.

Baby taxis, for two passengers, arc gradually replacing the rickshaws in Japan.

Japanese launch • ships with tho release of a Hock of birds to ensure the vessel’s safety. The United States industries use practically 0,000,000 pounds of bronze powder annually. In an attempt to cure himself of tuberculosis, a Willesden ex-soldier is living on white slugs. The disarmament of Heligoland will be completed shortly. The destruction of the harbour has begun. It costs between £2OO and £3OO a year now to keep a boy at one of the big Eiiglish, public schools. Patents applied for .in England last year numbered 32,853 —the highest number at least for the last ten years.

Toads in India are so used to snatching at objects that they have been known to snap up and eat redhot charcoal.''

For every 150 places for domestic servants in France, the employment agencies there say there are' only 10 servants available. ' imitation"rat-tails, made of string and skin, were used recently to deceive the Paris authorities into paying rewards offered. In the Great Fire of London, in 1 OCti, 13,000 houses Were destroyed, and 200,900 people were forced t<> camp out round London. Rouge and lipsticks, sleeves above the elbow, and transparent, stockings, are now forbidden in the Chicago High School for Girls.

By means of five headlights, used in different codes, the London District Railway trains indicate some 30 different destinations.

British scientists have decided, that passing* electricity through freshly-cut- timber makes it more resistant against decay in fungus growl h.

Thirty per coni. «;f the men be--1 ween 18 and 60 show evidences of: approaching organic disease, or already have it, says a rioted'* phy«teian. Beiva, in Portuguese East Africa, is a city of zinc. Eor all the buildings, and almost everythin';' else, from railway cars lo collins, zinc is used. A total of 70,000 passengers was carried in 38,054 flights in England for 12 months of civilian living, ending on October Ist. There was only one fatality.