NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2453, 13 July 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Whales suffer a good deal from rheumatism. There are 150,692 miles of roads : n England. Dyeing and mining are Britain’s eldest industries. The smallest bones in the human body are in the ears. There were 64,117 motoring accidents in Britain during 1921. In Britain there are more than 500 dog clubs and associations. Ivory worth £150,000, and weighing 150 tons is stored at the London Docks. Women are forbidden, by Act of Parliament, to go down mines as engineers. Sixteen ounces of gold are sufficient to gild a wire that would encircle the earth. A well-known firm of caterers in London have 25,000 pieces of crockery broken every week. Cutting open a dead fox, an Australian found that the animal had swallowed two brown snakes whole. Old age pensions are drawn by 72,311 persons in London. Of these more than two-thirds are women.

A Pittsburg girl, Jessie Ann Viehestahi, eleven years of age, preaches every Friday night at a mission hall. Certain chemicals used in dyeworks are now said to have strong curative values in cases of human ailments.

Goldsmith Hall, Princess Mary’s Yorkshire home, has been held by the Lascelles family since 1776.

Leeds proposes to use its tramways to transport coal straight from the collieries to the large works in the city. During 1921 the United -Slates produced 469,639,000 barrels of oil, representing 61 per cent, of the world’s total. Mexico came second with 195,000,000 barrels, Russia third with 28,500,000, and Dutch Hast. Indies fourth with 18,000,000 barrels.