NEWS IN BRIEF
A dragon fly is absolutely harmless, for it has no sting. There are 1,750,000,000 human beings now living on earth. A mosquito has 22 teeth, all ol which may he seen through a microscope. Britain gets two full moons in one month about once in every two and a-half years. At. twenty English lifeboat: stations the boats are now launched by agricultural tractors. The glow of a luminous wntolldial recently betrayed the presence of a burglar at Brighton. It is the boast of the dairymen of Holland that in their country there is a cow to every inhabitant. The population of Brazil is now 30,553,509, or more than one-t'ourih
that of the United States. The aerial fare from London to Paris is ten guineas for a single trip, and eighteen guineas for a return trip. A year in Jupiter equals about twelve of our own. The planet travels at the rate of eight miles per second. Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, has decided to adopt the British coinage in place of (lie French, which it has been using.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2257, 31 March 1921, Page 1
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182NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2257, 31 March 1921, Page 1
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