NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2502, 4 November 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 77 muscles in the bn man head.

A healthy person breathes 20 times per minute. A shark can keep up a speed of from 17 to 20 miles an hour. Forty-eight different materials are used in the construction of a piano. During lawn tennis at Horlev, Surrey a bird was struck by a ball and killed. Leeches are • claimed by many oculists as very useful in certain diseases of the eye. Lobsters and crayfish abound along the shallow sandy shores of North West Africa. Fares from London to Brussels by air are now: —Single, £3 10s fid; return, £7 7s. Three swarms of bees came from a single hive at Bridgwater, Somerset, in 25 hours. Glasgow Corporation accounts show a profit of £152,000 on the municipal tramways last year. Shipowners all over the world are computed to have lost £1,300,000,000 as a result of the great slump.

A “Bul'l’e” or helmet visor realised £2,835 at the sale of Newall art collection at Christie’s, London. Children having their hair cut in one. Chicago barber’s shop sir in a 'model motor car mounted on a stand.

For the annual week’s holiday at the Great Western Railway works at Swindon, 24,00(1 people will leave the town.

One London free library publishes figures which prove that only 21 per cent, of the books borrowed are fiction.

Gold worth nearly £800,000,000, or about 40 per cent, of the world’s supply is held by the United States of America.

Ear-rings, long scarves, and brightly-coloured stockings are worn by many fashionable American women while seabathing. Twenty houses have been built by unskilled ex-Service men at Salisbury under instruction from a few skilled workers.

The total membership of a Labour Party affiliated organisations, 4,000,000, is, it. is stated from London, 30,000 fewer than a year ago. The salary of the Mayor of Ramsgate, Kent, has been increased in order that the town may entertain a party of guests from Bruges.

A hairdressing saloon, the first to be established on any British racecourse, was well patronised during the recent Ascot meeting.