NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2317, 18 August 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 6,500 miles of railroads in China. The Gulf Stream is from 25 to 150 miles wide.

Twenty-live women hold positions of note in state offices in Kansas, The Chinese rules of etiquette date back to the first century before Christ. Two hundred beds have been closed at London Hospital for lack of funds.

The cotton industry in ’Northern Argentina has quadrupled in three years.

Home work in the tobacco and cigar industry in Holland is forbidden by a Bill just passed. Carrara marble, from the famous quarries in Italy, has been excavated for more than 2,000 years. Reductions in wages in England during April affected 1,147,000 people, who lost £270,000 weekly. German goods are 25 per cent, cheaper than the same class of American goods at Santiago, Chile. The most nutritious root crop, after the potato, is the beetroot, which contains 12 per cent, of sugar.

It is believed the Arabs, Saracens or Moors introduced card playing to Europe in the 14th century. The port of Liverpool handled 32 per cent, of the entire trade of' the United Kingdom during 1920. Temperance laws recently passed by Uruguay are designed to make that country totally dry in 1925.

It was first proposed to construct a tunnel across the English Channel from Calais to Dover in 1869, In the Island of Ceylon graphite is found in greater abundance than iu many similar sized area in the world. To awaken the interest of the French people in their Far Eastern Colonies, films of life there are being made by the Colonial Office for exhibition in France.