NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2393, 16 February 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In 53 years’ sei'vice, a Cardiff workman lost only half-an-hour’s time.

The sting of a bee is only about one thirty-second of an inch in length. The Tibetans avoid water, but clean their hands and faces with old butter.

In twelve months 2,376 loaves were found to be short weight in Middlesex. / Islington Guardians have lent the Borough Council £60,000 at 6 per cent.

Battersea’s new jury list shows 6,620 common jurors, of whom 1,653 are women. Waltham Cross, England, i« boasting of a 4ft. carrot, grown on a local allotment.

Fishing from a boat off Bexhill, a fisherman secured a dog-fish weighing 481 b.

No application for unemployed relief has been made to Winslow (Bucks) Guardians.

A day cook, “used to an irritable husband,” is advertised for at Herne Hill, London. A small motor car is to be cai’ried by the air-liner City of London from Paris to London. A trawler recently brought in an aeroplane engine picked up by the •trawl off Dover. Southend municipal piggery returned a profit of over £3OO, despite the deaths of 20 pigs.

Hop production in England for 1921 is estimated at 224,000 cwt., the lowest since 1909.

Over 1,000,000 square miles and 5,000,000 people are now under prohibition in Canada.

A mouse is frequently seen running about all unafraid in a lion s cage at the London Zoo. Seventeen new motor ships, of 135,000 tons dead-weight, were completed during a recent two months.

An acetylene burner, invented for welding ship-plates instead of riveting them, does the work of 25 men. A candle which will burn for 13 years has been made in New York. It is 18ft. long and weighs I,ooolb. Natural steam generated by subterannean heat at Lardorello, in Tuscany, is now used to produce electric power.

The Duke of Westminster has sold Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy,” and Reynold’s “Tragic Muse/’ for £200,000.

The astonishing feat of transmitting an electric current of 1,000,000 volts has been achieved at Pitts- 2 field, U.S.A. Mexico has a tribe ofjtadians whose language is limited to about 300 words, and who cannot count more than ten. Bread made of clay, grass, and moss, as eaten by the victims of the Russian famine, was recently exhibited at Riga. As a result of the slump in English live stock, young horses are being freely bought for slaughter on the Continent.