NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2274, 10 May 1921, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

According to one French statistician, at 50 years old the average mail has slept 6,000 worked

6,500, walked 800, amused himself 4,000, spent 1,500 eating, and 500 ill. Vienna police statistics show a remarkable diminution in crime last

year, especially in murder and robbery. The number of robbery cases fell from 102 in 191!) u> 38 iii 1920.

According to the census taken on 3 February Ist, Denmark’s population is now 3,2(38,807, which is 347.537 more than in 1916. The total figure includes 184,133 from North Slesvig. Many Indians of North America are lilting motors to their canoes, and they now move rapidly up and down the rivers where for centuries the tribesmen have invariably had lo paddle their canoes. After a number of tests, it lias been decided that six-wheeled omnibuses, which seat 48 instead of 38 passengers, may he run in Paris on certain wide thoroughfares ‘ where their great length will not hinder traffic. One of the most famous sources iif echoes in the world is the Whispering Gallery in the dame of St. [hull’s Cathedral, where even the slightest; whisper or the sound nude by the ticking of a watch returns distinctly after the lapse of i few seconds. There is an echo ' lear Bingcni, in Germany, which ivill toss a sound to and fro no few■r than 17 times, , — - - 1