NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2395, 21 February 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Salvation Army has 26,181 bandsmen, 751 day schools, and 41 naval and military schools scattered all over thp world. Lord Ashfield, the head of London’s underground and bus “combine*” was earning £I,OOO a year at the age of twenty. Acclaimed as the “handsomest man in France,” M. Hoffman, of Paris, weighs 2101 b., and has a waist measurement of 66 inches. Peers owned the Derby winners in the consecutive years 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918, when the race was run under wartime conditions. Certain soils in ilussia, India, and Persia have always been eaten by the natives of these parts for their health-giving properties. During foggy weather, such as is experienced in some English towns, a man breathes into his lungs over 10,000,000,000 particles of soot in an hour. Football is almost as popular in Burma as it is among Western nations. The natives play the game unshod, and kick and shoot goals with bare feet. The invention of bells is attributed to the Egyptians, who are credited with having made use of perolission instruments to announce the sacred fetes of Osiris. University training is much more difficult to obtain in England since the war, as the number of would-be students has increased by much more than 50 per cent. Motor vehicles licensed during the period January Ist to August 31st> 1921, in Great Britain, numbered 870,782, the value of the tax being nearly £10,000,000. Telephones in the United Kingdom at the end of last year averaged one to every 47 inhabitants; in the United States of America there is one to every eight inhabitants.