NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2290, 16 June 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tibet, Napaul, Abyssinia, parts of Arabia, and Afghanistan are still closed to the British and Foreign Bible Society.

In the Berne (Switzerland) House of Deputies, speeches even on important subjects are now limited to twenty minutes.

While our normal temperature is 98.4 degrees, Ave drink tea freely at 120 degrees, and call it cold if it is only 115 degrees.

Imports of beef, mutton ami lamb into Britain during the last year wci’e 90,000 ton*above those of any previous year recorded.

Blind Avomen, trained by the London Association for the Blind, knit frocks, of which they themselves suggest* the colour combinations.

Seven railwaymen were hurt a! an Antwerp goods station by the explosion of eases containing tiny cartridges for children’s pistols,

Blind for the whole 114 years of her life, said to be the record, period of sightlessness, an .trisliAvonian recently died in a Kerry infirmary.

The rate at which people Avrite in longhand varies to some extent, hut from 25 to 30 words per minute is probably about the average.

Plans'for a tunnel beneath the Scheldt, at Antwerp, which was firs! projected in 1869, are again being considered by the, Belgian Government.

The president of the newly-form-ed Veteran Ladies’ Golf Association is herself aged 92; -candidates far membership must, be at least 50 years old.

Besides a salary of £15,000 a year, the President of the United States of America has travelling expenses and the upkeep of While House paid for him. The County of London measures 117 .square miles, Metropolitan Police London 600 square miles, and lhe City of London, under the Lord Mayor, just over one square mile. Arable land, measuring 9,810,000 acres, was ruined by the Avar; of: this, 6,680,000 acres have already been cleared of ware, and the French alone have ploughed 3,756,000 acres.

The charms of German girls proved of great attraction to American soldiers in the army of occupation on the Rhine, the result being that over 3,000 frauleins became American brides.