NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2423, 2 May 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pliaee and other flat fish in early life are symetrieal, and swim like round fish.

The “life” of a two-shilling-piece in circulation is estimated at about 45J years. Music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture are usually included in the term “fine arts.”

The world’s envoiope of air has just been proved to extend for 300 miles above the earth. Colours which stand well in ordinary wear for a period of six months or so are usually termed “fast.”

A gas ,which caused violent sneezing was one of the American scientific discoveries during the Great War. In the ex-Kaiser’s Berlin palace were found 10,000 copper cooking utensils, after his flight, although all copper had been called in by his Government. Thirty thousand people are killed or injured in the United States every day; five persons, it is estimated, meet death by accident there every minute. The Great Western Railway Company has asked its 00,000 employees to save one penny- per day per man. This would mean that an annual saving would be made of £140,000. Skittles, once a favourite game but now declining in popularity, is played in London with nine pins, and in the Eastern Counties with four pins.

The estimated population of England, Scotland, and Ireland is about 48,000,000; they support an army of 8,000,000 Government officials, soldiers, sailors, etc. Between South Africa and Australia are a number of islands seldom visited by ships; on many of these, stores of food are placed for the use of shipwrecked sailors. Preserved peas, green in colour, without the use of copper, are the product of two firms, one in France and the other in America, who hold the secret recipe. After saving every penny during his twenty years’ residence in the Burton-on-Trcnt Workshop, an inmate .recently went on a visit to friends with £lO in his pockets. The steamer Seapool struck an iceberg off Newfoundland and began to till. The swelling of the grain in. her forehold stopped the hole and prevented her from sinking. “The Oriental custom of reclining on the ground on cushions or lying on couches, instead of sitting erect on chairs, oftens has a beneficial effect on lhe health,” says a doctor. A special aeroplane, with a cabin containing desks, typewriter, etc., has been ordered by a business man with big interests in London, Paris, Brussels, and other Continental capitals. Houses which have not been repaired«for twenty years, and 12,000 persons living in 500 houses, were the results of an investigation of the Latimer Road ditrict of Notting Hill, London.

Because he was not a diligent scholar as a boy, a student at Columbia (U.S.A.) University, holds an inheritance so long as he remains at the college, where lie has been enrolled since 1880. In view of the fact that there are large stocks of iron in Japan, the Government Iron Works supplies amounting to 106,225 tons, it is reported that no more iron will be imported for the rest of the current year.

To prove that he was a wounded ex-soldier, William Moran who, with another man, was charged with stealing a pair of boots at Coventry, took olf his artificial nose. Both men were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Rings, ornamented with broken Cupid’s bows, are becoming popular for wear among American divorced wives. They are worn on the little finger of the left hand, and another jewel may be~a dried for each fresh divorce. New lakes and rivers have recently been discovered in the Rpcky Mounlains by aerial observers; one party of explorers in an aeroplane did in seven hours a survey which would have taken up to two months on foot.