NEWS IN BRIEF
The Bible contains 773,748 words. Foxes, as a rale are very spiteful.
The King of Egypt is likely to visit London shortly. London County Council rales over an area of 117 square miles. Wigs made of white silk are the latest freak of Parisian fashion.
Out of 6,000 members of the Actresses’ Union, no fewer than 4,000 are out of work.
The is getting drier, according to the rainfall statistics collected by one scientist.
The first aerial time-table, consisting of nearly 100 pages has appeared on the Continent. The complete returns of the census taken last year will not be available until June, 1923.
An air service for the transport of goods is to be started between Lausanne and Paris. In the Swiss Confederation’s accounts for the year 1921 there is a total deficit of £5,102,878. Germany has started a big “propaganda.” to attract tourists to her pleasure resorts again. Surviving British officers who took part in the Zeeburge raid recently held a dinner in London.
General Booth has appointed Lieut.-Colonel M.iehe to begin Salvation Army work in Brazil.
Radium worth £4,000,000, but weighing only 6 oz., has been produced in the last twenty-six years. United States postal aeroplanes during 1921 travelled 1,713,000 miles and carried 1',166,0001b of mail. Powder-puffs, cigarette-cases, and coin purses are concealed in the handles of the newest parasols. In an “egg week” for the Essex County Hospital, 19,136 eggs were collected in Colchester district.
Special wireless sets are being made in America for the use of cowboys while riding on their rounds. Of every 100 applicants for patents in Great Britain nearly twenty are put forward by German inventors.
The gold mines of Northern Ontario will, it is thought, produce 21,200,000 dollars during the present year. Airmen, flying against the wind, even at considerable altitudes, frequently complain that they get dust in their eyes. The United States House of Representatives has passed a Bill providing for a Navy personnel of 86,000 enlisted men. Great Britain spent £8 10s per head of the population on intoxicating liquor in 1920, compared with £3 12s 6d -in 1913.
Prisoners in England and Wales numbered about 11,800 in March, 1922, as compared with 17,800 in March 1914.
Gibralter has contributed £865 to the fund for the relief of the dependants of men who went down in submarine H. 42.
For short distances, London tradesmen are stated to be finding horse vans cheaper and more reliable than motor vans. Scotland Yard has a record of 200,000 finger-prints, so perfectly classified that any special one can be found in one minute. While Mr Albert Oakley was working in his garden at Bath, he found the coffin of a Roman child hollowed out of a block of stone.
Rattlesnake farms, which supply live reptiles to menageries and poison for scientists experimental purposes, exist in America.
Visitors to the London Zoological Gardens last year numbered 1,386,715, the third largest in the history of the Zoological Society.
A well-known lumber man in Nova Scotia has stated that one healthy porcupine destroys one hundred fully grown trees in a winter.
A chocolate Easter Egg, auctioned by Sir Harry Lauder at the Balham Hippodrome on behalf of London hospitals, realised 20 guineas. Marriages performed in registry offices in one district- in London alone increased from 200 to more than 1,000 annually within recent years.
Fish make good “film performers” when properly trained; they can be taught to swim round any human actor who dives into their tank.
In England a prolonged spell of east winds means an increase in the cases of congestion, influenza, rheumatism, lufnbago, and swollen hands.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2446, 27 June 1922, Page 1
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