NEWS IN BRIEF.
Reaching the record height of 33,00(Jft. in an aeroplane, a Frenchman said he seemed to be flying through rose coloured atmosphere when at that altitude. Speculation in industrial firms is spreading so rapidly in’ Berlin that the Stock Exchange there is closed for two days a week to enable clerks to cope with the orders. A pair of blackbirds this season built a nest and hatched their young under a carriage of a passenger train travelling regularly between Hawick and Edinburgh. According to a well-known naturalist, the scarcity of swallows in England is partly due to the enormous increase of sparrows, which take possession of the swallows’ nests. “My wife is now a widow,” deelared a man to a puzzled magistrate at Tottenham. “That is beyond my comprehension; what do you mean ” asked the magistrate. “I manned a widow,” explained the man, “and later divorced her. I take it she now reverts to her original status as a. widow.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2349, 1 November 1921, Page 4
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162NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2349, 1 November 1921, Page 4
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