NEWS IN BRIEF.
The inner bark of a Japanese shrub ean be made into an imitation leather as tough as French kid, and as pliable as calfskin. ■ After 10 years’ work, the boring of' the second gallery of the Simplon Tunnel, which is 21,570 yards in length, has been completed.
Owing to the improvement in the •Antwerp diamond industry, unemployment is. abating, and workers are able to do without State aid. Receding tides in the Gulf of Alaska, on Turnagain Arm, have revealed a oft. vain of gold quartz assaying about £25 to the ton. An American woman who underwent an operation for appendicitis has had her appendix plated with gold, and now wears it as a. pendant. A stone-age dwelling, still containing domestic utensils, has been found; it is said to be the oldest so far discovered in Eastern Prussia.
A fifteen-year-old boy in JCrenton, New Jersey, has feigned illness or injury three times in order to secure a ride in a hospital" ambulance.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2360, 26 November 1921, Page 4
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165NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2360, 26 November 1921, Page 4
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