NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2321, 27 August 1921, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Rome is to-dav in need of 4,500

more rooms

There are now over 320.000 gir guides in the world.

•There are now 35,006 boy scouts in our' Indian Empire. Italy lost 55,000,000 days of work last year because of strikes.

A cockerel at Linslade, in Buckinghamshire, has swallowed a rat. A total of 1,1)00,000 telegrams a month, is now sent by telephone in the United Kingdom. The present United States munitions reserve is estimated to be worth £300,000,000. The receipts of the Birmingham tramways last year totalled £1,650.054, which constituted a record. A canal '‘chapel barge" in which bargees and their families are invited to worship, is moored in Paris. One woman in eight and one man in 13 over the age of 40 die of cancer, in the United States each year. New York State cut 41.0,000,U00 feet, of lumber in. 1920, priced at £4,000,000, or nearly double the price of the 1018 cut. A United States Amy flyer, Lieutenant Pearson, has explored the Grand Canyon wit ha view io studying the air currents, The Great Eastern Railway Company started a new service to the Continent between Harwich and Zeebrugge on July 2nd, A linos t .1,000 gallons of spirits, seized by the police from offenders against prohibition, were spilled into a New York sewer recently. Prance exported 55,375 bottles of champagne to the United States during the last few months of this year, and 21,240 bottles to Canada. Mr Prank .H. .Buhl, of Grove, Pennsylvania, has left a legacy of £400,000 to the inhabitants of the devastated regions of Prance and Belgium. Now the ostrich comes forward-to help the leather shortage, and ii is claimed that shoes made from ostrich skins will outlast ordinary leather.

Pully 4,932,000,000 persons were carried by motor ear in the United States in 1920, as compared with 1,234,222,889 revenue passengers on the railways. Lightning struck a dormitory at Dickenson College, U.S.A., and hurled a student across a room, while others a few feet away were not touched. The Newfoundland Government is making a further grant of £IOO,OOO to enable needy cod-fishermen to obtain the necessary outfit for the

summer season. The United States is short of 25,000 physicians, Dr. Roy Uphom, Brooklyn, declared at the annual convention of the American Institute of Momeopathv. For every hundred francs spent by a French family in 1914 il is to--1 day necessary to disburse 3-J8

francs in order to maintain the same standard of living. Germany’s casualties in the war are placed at 0,888,982, made up as follows: —Killed in battle, 1,531,18; missing, 91,340; wounded, 4,211,481; died of disease, 155,013.

In an exhibition ride at, Horne Hill, London, recently, \Y. T. Hall, the professional cyclist, covered fivo miles from a standing start in 7m. 365. He was paced by a motor cycle.

Airs Christine Kuuze, of Wisconsin, probably holds the record for continuous living under the same roof. She is now past 90 years of age, and for the last 73 years has lived in the same house.

ft is said to be possible to rent a live- or six-roomed residence in Warsaw for one year for 2,000 marks. At the present rate of exchange this is equivalent to only a few shillings in British currency. The Credit Nationale, instituted by the French Government principally to finance reconstruction, has advanced for that purpose 5,287,177,166 francs out; of an available fund of approximately 7,000,000,000 francs.

At Sontlieby's, the famous London auction room, a first folio Shakespeare,, dated 1623, was sold recently for £2,650, and a third folio, dated 1664, for T 720. A first folio Shakespeare was sold in April for 114,200, The number of cattle for each JOO persons in the United States is to day one-third less than in 1900 (lie sheep supply is reduced nearly twn- l i,ii\io* while the number of flogs is fully 41 pci cent, less new than then.

Finland’s hrsi ladio school has been in operation since the end of September, 1920, as the result- of

England's new jaw prohibiting ail Mips of more than 1,600 tons from remaining in English harbours without a radio apparatus.

Liquidation of the American mv stocks sold to Yreno.e fur

ii oc- ye t- pro due e d enough to repay die purchase price at the present rule of exchange. 'The total sates to June Ist amounted to a hour- £47,000,000. Ths largest bey in die cathedral a: Berlin, vas broken while tolling for the funeral of the ex-Kaiserlc j.jio bell had one of the most bean-

*80,000,000 ha

r.ful touts of any bell la all Germany. ft was east in 1471, and v.elgiiod B,ooolb. It w&s 6ft. in d ; a-

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