NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2315, 13 August 1921, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Copper is said to have been -first discovered in Cyprus. New York City boasts of over 13,000 miles of concrete sidewalks. The first submarine built in Spain has been launched at Carthagena. In only 14 Chinese cities are there telephone systems of appreciable size. The president of one of the largest Trade Unions in America receives £5,000 a year. A recent report, shows that China has 45,000.000 sheep, 23,000,000 and 16,000j000 cattle. Fifty-three of the ships of the Royal Navy completed during 1014 can now be regarded as obsolete. Mexico’s output of petroleum for the year will total 27,000,000 barrels, 50 per cent-, above that of last year. Coal has just been discovered in the Hie of Man, which up to the

present has had to import every ounce it has used.

The aeroplane altitude record, 33,133 ft., was gained by R. W. Sehroeder in the United States on February 27th, 1920. An expedition .supported by American science is to search for the blue tiger, an unknown species, in Southern China. The death-rate from fever is at present the lowest in the history of England, and the least of any country in the world. Tame snakes are used in Morocco to clear houses of rats and mice. The sight of a snake seems to terrify the rodents. The telephone wires in (he United States aggregate 28,827,10 S miles —enough to girdle the earth at the equator 1,153 times.

The area of the City of London is a little over one square mile. The area of the County of London is 117 square miles. A man appearing in Bow County Court as a witness had his bald head tatooed with stars, birds, a stag, and other animals. There are 1,500;000 .Jews in New York, as many as in all the rest <> T the United States, arid a tenth of all

(he Jews in the world. A Danish expedition is excavating in South Greenland for relics of the Vikings. An ancient burial place has alreadv been discovered.

A proposal lo raise the age for attendance at the day continuation schools to 1C was defeated at the London Education Committee.

At Munich on September 15th, 1909, Paul Guignard rode (53 miles 255 yards in an hour. He was motor paced, and had a wind shield.

On Whit Monday the London trams and buses carried 5.000,000 passengers. The population of London is less than 8,000,000.