NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2380, 17 January 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Roumania lias ordered 200 locomotives from Germany. In 1914 89 per cent of the world’s ocean tonnage used coal fuel; in 1921 only 72.3 per cent depended on coal.

At the Ferrari stamp sale in Paris two British Guiana stamps of 1850 and initialled J.D.R., were sold for 60,000 francs (£1132). Swiss railway carriages returning from Italy are often found stripped of blinds, seat coverings, leather, and even electric fittings.

Hot weather and little wind combined to cut off the supply of oxygen from Wisconsin lakes, resulting in the death of millions of fish.

The White Star Line has granted facilities to Liverpool University that will give engineering students experience at sea during their vacations.

A big Japanese toy factory has had to discharge many employees; German competition is blamed for the dwindling demand for Japanese toys.

The British Office of Works is making annual payments of 5s for the upkeep of each of the graves of German prisoners of war buried in this country.

In New York a woman burglar declared her glands made her do it; a physician tesiitied I bat her disease, hyperthyroidism, gives rise to criminal tendencies.

The Mount House. Shrewsbury, where Charles Darwin, the naturalist, was born in 180!). has been bought by the British Offiee of Works to house clerks.

Tn reporting that an income-tax summons lmd not been served, the warrant officer at West Ham Police Court staled that the alleged defaulter died more than 12 years ago. Owing t(> delay in wages settlement, (lie whole staff of Braeebridge Mental Hospital, Lincolnshire, went on strike, and refused to. do more than attend to helpless cases.

The story goes ibaf Alexander Graham Bell, shouting to a friend over one of the earliest telephones, was nearly ejected by'his landlady on complaint of her sufferinglodgers.

The number of National Ravings Cert ideates sold in the United Kingdom during the weelc ended October Ist was 1,155,077, bringing the total to that date up to 179,093,547. John D. Rockfeller, ,junr., has given £12,000 to enable I lie University of Chicago to excavate on the site of Armageddon, where the first battle known to history was fought.

Rome reports that the obelisk in the Piazza di Ran Pietro was slightly damaged by a “thunderbolt,” but makes no mention of any fragments of the meteorite having been found.

The number of United States Shipping Board vessels swinging idly at anchor in Staten Island Sound was increased to 171 recently, when 12 more ships were added to the great Heel. In England a suit has lieen sold for £25,00(1. It is a suit of armour made by Jacob the Armourer for the second Earl of Pembroke, and if was bid up to this figure at. an auction sale. Aulomobilists ran over a rattlesnake near Ferndale, New York. Ijj a punctured tyre was found a fang one and three-eighths inches in length. The snake measured sft. 7in., and had 17 rattles. American soldiers in Hawaii lose much time in hospital as a result of the latooing craze. Such sickness is now declared punishable, and pay is stopped for (lie duration of the disability. It will soon be hard to trace the trench-lines of the great war. New trees are springing up in place of those blown to, pieces, and the upheaved subsoil is transforming itself into verdured stretches.

TJk* presence of ;i blue-eved policeman was expressly requested by the bride’at an Ash tend, Surrey, wedding:. As not one could he found in Ihe district, however, a policeman with hazel eyes was sent instead.