NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2306, 23 July 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Platinum is nearly four times clearer than "old. Face powder cost American women £10,000,000 last year.

Seventy-live per cent, of the nickel of the world comes from Canadian mines.

A French electrician claims to h.ave invented a machine which will produce sleep.

Egypt possesses its own coinage. The English pound has as its equivalent 100 piastres.

Rat-hunting, « which combines business with pleasure, is suggested as a fashionable sport. It is said that in the days of Pharoah there was a canal between the Red Sea and the Nile.

A pair of stirrups of the year IG3O, recently brought the suig of £-141 in a London auction room.

Since 1914 Shakespeare's plays have been performed before about 1,000,000-children in London.

Fish have been' discovered in Africa the female of which carries

her newly-hatched young in her mouth. Queen Mary has given orders to her milliners that no wild-bird plumage is to be used in her hats. Surplus nickel castings used for bullets during the war were employed in making the new “silver coinage. German dyes produced last year equalled 145,000 tons, the largest quantity ever manufactured in one year. During a recent week England and Wales-were without a single case of smallpox, cholera, or typhus fever. It.is the movement of the air, and not any chemical property, which enables a wind to impart a bracing effect. The mortality of infants under one year of age for 1920 in England was only 80 per 1,000 births. This is a record. A church bell, weighing 14 tons, has been stolen by motor bandits from the ruins of a church' near Lille, France.