NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2295, 28 June 1921, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fish are believed to have a keen sense of smell. Arabian desert natives neither smoke nor drink. Our blood constitutes 7.7 per cent, of our weight. The native negroes of Panama speak excellent Spanish. A Chinese schoolmaster becons a boy by waving him away. The world uses up an average of 3,000,000 needles a day. Women of the Moslem faith are forbidden to appear on the stage. Bluckbectles and cockroaches flourish wherever there are hot-

water pipes. The University-of Chile was first opened toVomen students in 1880. A falcon’s flight has been estimated to he at the rate of 150 miles an hoiuvChinese used reed musical instruments for many centuries before other people. The dome of the famous Palace of Justice in Brussels is made of papier maclie. The custom of wearing wigs came into vogue in England in the seventeenth century. Oarsmen in the early days of the English university boat races; wore top hats while racing. Over £500,000 has been raised in Denmark by a national fund for the purchase of radium.

The lifeboht. at Hunstanton, on the Norfolk coast, is drawn to the water’s edge by a motor tractor. The windows of Southwark (London) Cathedral have not been cleaned for twenty-five years. In an ordinary book the last letter of the alphabet will be found about six times in each 1,000 words. It is.only a few years since in Korea they thought it hardly worth while to give a girl baby a name. Visitors to Liverpool recently, owing to lack of hotel accommodation, were housed in a liner lying in dock. Last year Britain’s boot and shoe exports, valued at £8,000,000, were double those of 1019, and also 1913.

. There are thirty varieties of datepalms to he found in Egypt, which country contains neither woods nor forests.

The Glasgow Savings Bank, the largest in the United Kingdom, has a balance due to depositors exceeding £18,000,000,

Two forms of nervous disease are' agoraphobia (a form of open spaces) and claustrophobia (the dread of confined spaces).

The first pair of silk stockings ever woven in England was made in Clieam, Surrey, and presented to Queen Elizabeth. The Prince of Wales, who some months ago was initiated a Freemason in the Household Brigade Lodge, was in April installed as 3Vorshipful Master of that Lodge.