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NEWS IN BRIEF

One ton of coal vie Id-, nearly 10,000 ft. of gas. Our blood constitutes 7.7 per cent, of our weight.

The latest census shows that New York lias 153,000 negroes. London had 3,471 fires last year, the damage being £1,941,955. Westmorland is the most thinlypopulated county in England.

Last year 100,000,000 letters were earned by air mail in the I'.S.A,

A locomotive -engine which cost £2,950 in 1913, has now risen to £IO,OOO.

'English postal services have a surplus of £3,469,828 on last years operations.

In the two years since the Armistice Britain has spent £800,000,000

on armies. Canada -has formed a Koval Air Force, which is to have a strength of about 5,000. The number of telephone calls in the United Kingdom for the past year was 850,000,000. Woodrow Wilson is the first exPresident to make his permanent home in Washington. Telephone expenditure in England has risen from £0,000,000 in 1914 to £14,000,000 now. The product ion cost of a ton oJ: coal in America is 15s, compared with more than 30s in Britain. The people-of India speak 173 different languages, and these are subdivided into many more dialects. Jamaica is paying Great Britain an annual contribution of £OO,OOO towards the cost of the war. The number of boys sentenced to be birched by the English Juvenile Courts during 1920 was 1599. The cost of the American Presidential election amounts to 10,335,000 dollars, or more than £2,000,000. Dancing is suggested as a compulsory study at West Point, the military academy of the United States. j Two Kansas students have codij tied all the U.S.A, laws in 2,000,000 ■ words, the biggest law book in the world. I Rockets are to be used for scattering oil on angry seas. At present the oil can only be poured round the- ship. Daily weather reports for the benefit of air travellers are uow is- ! sued by the meteorological office in England. There are over 800,000 telephonesin Canada, and the number is* be- ! ing added to tit the rate of 75,000 annually.

A baby recently lived for a quarter of an hour without its lungs expanding, a thing hitherto supposed impossible. Geese’s eggs are stated to be the best, from the point of view of nourishment. Hen’s eggs come fourth on the list.

The bronze propeller screws first fitted to the Mauretania wore but, through the action of salt-water, in three months.

Though the domestic cat avoids water, it is a natural swimmer when immersed. Even a tiny blind kitten swims strongly. The British Government has placed £1,000,000 in the hands of the Air Ministry for the development of civil aviation.

Biblical mention is made of 19 precious stones,six metals, 104 trees and plants, 35 animals, 39 birds, six fishes, and 11 reptiles.

It is calculated that every year a sum of no less than £50,000,000 changes hands in wagers on the racecourses of England.

Corrosion of the ironwork in the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, has lifted the whole of the dome three-quarters ol' an inch. Passengers carried hist year by the group of English railway companies known as the “Underground” totalled 1,487 millions.

One hundred young women from Austria have arrived in Chicago, where the supply of household help lias been gradually dwindling. A star twenty-seven million times is big as the sun has been “measured” by a device recently worked out by an American scientist. London has one pedigree searcher, one macaroni manufacturer, two baby pacifier makers, two coat-of-arms carvers, and ten stringers of pearls.

“Dead ends”—termini where trains have to stop and tufti —cost tho London tramways £200,000 annually for the time wast ed in turn -

Cleveland, Ohio, is ,-aid to have as residents in its borders more Czechs than are found in any city in Cz.eeho-Slovakia, save the City qf Prague.

A motor ear at Tooting, England, recently ran into a fire-alarm, injuring the driver. Before an ambulance could be summoned 14 fire engines had lushed up. One design in the London County Council £I,OOO competition for a new style of tramcar, showed a car with nu seats, but slanting boards to lean against. Berlin streets were recently so full of beggars that the police made a series of raids, proving that nine-ty-five per cent, of the “maimed and blinded” were imposters. In Denmark farmers are required to number and initial each egg sent to market. If one or two eggs are bad the farmer is lined; if three are had lie is boycotted. The longest recorded distance down by a homing pigeon is 1182 miles, by the birds Darby and .Joseph. The flight was from Pensacola, Florida, to Fall River. Mass., U.S.A.

The Royal Air Force abroad is costing Great Britain £132.000 a year. The details are: —Constantinople, £3,000; Mesopotamia, £73,000; Palestine, £23,000: Ireland £33,000.

The tax on war fortunes in Switzerland up to the end of last year yielded 470,000,000 franes.t A mini exchange this would be £lB,000,000; at present exchange £20,000,000.

Since the general election in the United Kingdom in December, 1913, the Coalition has lost 13 seats and won <>ne, while the seats retained were held by greatly reduced majorities.

The largest of the kangaroos when in flight proceeds by a succession of gigantic leaps, averaging between 20 and 30ft. at a bound, and maintaining that average as a human runner maintains the length of his stride.

Tf. is the custom on the birth of a Japanese baby to plant a tree. This is carefully tended until the child is about to be married, when it is cut down and made into an article of furniture for the new home.

The Australian gold output for 1920 was the smallest since the discoveries of the fifties. The quantity was 943,692 ozs., value £4,008,-5-15. The highest yield was that ol 1903—3,836,095 oz., value £lO,303,000. The blood of birds is hotter than that of human beings; that of mammals differs. A man’s temperature should be just over 98d0g.; a wolfs 94 or 95; while that of an Arctic fox should be just*over 98 deg.; a wolfs btniito and tunny, which are fishes, have a temperature of 99 deg.

The street where Kropotkin, the Russian scientist and devolutionary, was born has been renamed Kropotkin Street by the Moscow Soviet. The house in which lie lived is to be converted into a museum, and one of the Moscow libraries will be renamed Kropotkin Library. The throat of the great whalebone whale is so small that, as sailors say, a penny loaf would choke it.. The sperm whale, however, 60ft. long, and weighing 70 tons, has a throat big enough to swallow a man. Masses of food 6ft. long and Bft. round, being parts of the tentacles of sea-squids, have been found in its stomach.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2280, 24 May 1921, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
1,128

NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2280, 24 May 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2280, 24 May 1921, Page 4

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