NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2368, 15 December 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Toys will lie much cheaper this Christmas in Great Britain. A Brazilian firm recently completed the necessary installations for the manufacture of vegetable Hours. Flour has already been made suee'essfully from both white and black beans. Umbrellas of the customers in one London store are safeguarded by rack's, each of which locks with a special key, which the owner of the umbrella keeps until ho collects lias property.

During a dense London fog there is as much as 200 tons of soot suspended overhead. Plants, by means of their greenness, arc able to collect and store the heat of I ho sun.

Travelling at Od a mile is the aim of the makers of a new style of French aeroplane.

Kissing is said by some experts to be largely responsible for the spread of dental ailments. Women police in London number 113, all ranks, and cost the ratepayers nearly £30,000 a year. Hotel bills in Italy are increased by 20 pel’ cent, by luxury taxes and funds for war widows, etc. Nettles have been made into substitutes for cotton and other materials, paper, gas mantles, and dyes.

Many of the chateaux and villas in the Riviera owned by British nobility are being offered for sale. Able to crack a Brazil nut between bis still strong . teeth, Mr Lamb, of Ash, Surrey, is 103 years of age. Crockery broken in use at Fulham Infirmary during a recent period of three months numbered 1,648 articles.

Women, on an average, have broader heads in proportion to their length, and darker eyes and hair than men.

Cleanin»' the teeth properly calls for the expenditure of at. least one minute and a-half each time the brush is used.

Genius has been explained by an Irish surgeon as the product of a germ which gets into and round the human brain.

Golf-balls lost during one month at a well-known English club arc estimated at 1,000. Dogs are being trained to search for them.

After being terribly burned by an explosion, a girl of Jersey City, U.S.A. has already been \ through 250 operations for skin grafting, with a prospect of 750 more to follow.