NEWS IN BRIEF
One ton of coal yields 10,000 ft. of gas. Sunlight will penetrate clear wafer to a depth of 1,500 ft. A single orange tree of average size will bear 20,000 oranges. . July was the driest month London has known for 80 years. A large nest of wasps will account for 24,000 flies in a day. Crocodiles are now rarely found in the Nile below the first cataract.
The amount expended on famine relief in India last year was £l,140,047. Each tank at the top of the Crystal Palace towers holds 1,200 tons of water.
The swallows’ mouth, in proportion to its size, is larger than that of any other bird. The great irrigation works in the Sudan have been stopped temporarily, owing to lack of funds. A Japanese wooer presents bis sweetheart with a beautiful sash byway of an engagement token.
Aviation has been added to the sports in which the undergraduate at Cambridge can win his “blue.”
Bees have been trained to start and stop work at the sound of a gong by a breeder of Fleet, Hants. There are 1.200 points on the globe which can be reached only by the use of British Admiralty charts. Seventy-nine ruined towns and villages in France have been adopted by towns and villages in England.
The wage bill of English railways has gone up since the beginning of the war from £47,000,000 to £173,000,000. An official inquiry is to be made in England into the effect of day-light-saving on the health of school children.
In most species of birds, the male is larger than the female, but the opposite is the'case among certain birds of prey.
,Of 3,(565 rats examined for evidence of plague in the docks of the Port of London last year, none wqrc found infected.
Last yei.Tr, 1301bs. of salt were consumed per head in the United States; the consumption of sugar was only lOSlbs. per head.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2343, 18 October 1921, Page 4
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322NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2343, 18 October 1921, Page 4
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