NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2394, 18 February 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Forty-two babies in forty-four years, the record of a woman who died near Rugby in 1720, is said to be still unbeaten.

Books, however damaged, can now be repaired, and missing pages replaced, by special treatment, which is, however, very costly. Sharks in the water along the British Columbia coast are to be utilised in the making of leather, liver oil, fertiliser, and jewellery.

Herr Hugo Stiimes, who jsjsaid to be the greatest employer m Germany, controls 1,340 companies, which employ 1,500,000 people. A Lancashire fowl, .sent to an egg-laying competition in Philadelphia, has created a world’s record by laying 202 eggs in 280 days. The insurance companies of the United States calculate that 12,000 people were killed last year while motoring, and 1,500,000 were injured. That girls should not allow men to pay fares, etc., for them is the belief of a well-known clergyman, who welcomes feminine independence. A witness in Bow Street Court declared, as proof that a man could pay a debt, that lie was the only man in the street who wore a starched collar. In a new dining car train on the Great Northern Railway only electricity is used for cooking, the dynamos being driven from the axles of the kitchen car. The number of working days lost in Great Britain through strikes in 1919 was 27,000,000; in 1920, 37-, 000,000; and in the first half of this jear, 70,000,000.