NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2392, 14 February 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Persia has no-old maids. London’s fire-brigade costs £SOO- - a year. Cucumbers were originally tropical vegetables. Fleet Street was one of London’s earliest suburbs. Below 500 fathoms’ in the ocean there is no light. No more vessels are being built of reipforced concrete.

London’s oldest tube railway only dates back thirty-one years. London is the only city where typhoid fever has been abolished. Plasterers in New York get £2 5s a day, and plumbers £2 10s, The laws of Moses as regards food have never been improved upon. Water, pure and cold, is one. of the best cures for indigestion. Tigers are said to suffer more from seasickness than any other animal. Great Britain has one motor for every 110 persons of its population. The cigarette vogue is said by some of the tobacconists to be on the wane. Orange trees have been known to bear fruit until they were 150 years old. Few Turks have more than one wife, although their law allows them to have four. Senor Atria, a Chilean bacteriologist is said to have discovered the small-pox bacillus. A contract has been let for drilling of an oil prospect at Terrace, British Columbia. High heels of exaggerated proportions may cause curvature of the spine and other illsy Thames anglers tire meeting with success with soaked hemp tied as bait for roach and dace. The province of Mysore (India) intends to spend £54,000 during the visit of the Prince of Wales. Nickel coins are in use in Ceylon, Uganda, India, and Nigeria among other British possessions. Even seaweed was used for the manufacture of gas during the recent coal strike in England. A'Middlesborough (England) church shows moving pictures every Sunday evening after church. Although blind, a Canadian exsoldier recently passed the Civil Service Examination for employment as a shorthand clerk. It is stated that some of the wireless messages of distress fmnt out by' the ship Helen B. Sterling when foundering off the North Cape.recently were picked up by # amateur wireless enthusiasts at Wanganui.