NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2508, 21 November 1922, Page 4

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Gramaphone music has been successfully tried in America to divert the attention of a patient from his sufferings, before and after opera - I ions.

Taking turns in sitting on a combination of kittens and eggs, a cat and a lien have formed a strange partnership in Missouri, 1..5.A. The production of cocoons in Italy this year is estimated at GO. 1 million lbs., as against 98.1 million in 1921, and an average of (53.9 million for the five year.- l!)l(i-2U: that is t (,i sav !)7..1 per cent and 1.0:!. it per cent, of these last two quantities respectively. According to a Prague report, an important new oil well litis been just brought into production in the Egliell region of Slovakia, and during its first flow of seven hours produced over 900 foils of oil. There was tin enormous gas pressure, the oil being thrown considerably above the derrick top. Two men, Populich and Ivanova, were condemned til Btnla Pest to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour for forging English £1 note.-. From Berne it is stated that a dug has been trained to clear the aerodrome at Thun of grazing cattle whenever tin aeroplane is about to land. The saloon was known in ancient Poinpei, ns recent excavations disclose. A bar has been found, with a furnace and cauldron lor making the brew; there was even a little liquor left in the cauldron. Election appeals were found on the Avails; Lollius, a duumvir, who looked after streets and sacred ,buildings, asks the voles of the frequenters of the saloon. This method of seeking votes antedates 200 B.C. There were in August 4 1 8 Moscow industrial enterprises, which bad been granted temporary leases, and 53!) others will eventually receive similar lease. U is stated that though there is no lack of fuel and raw materials the industries aie being hampered by lack oi operative capital. The taxes upon industry amounting to from 28 to 42 per com. on all sales. Thirty-nine per cent, of the directors of the trusts are Communists, In preparation for an expected trade development, Canada has enlisted the services of McGill and 'Toronto, two of its leading uiiiversites. Next year there will be established at the institutions short courses for the training, of export managers. The teachers wll be provided by the Dominion Government, and subjects to be considered will include selling methods and economic geography. There will also be an extended study of foreign tariffs. Abundant fossil flora found in rock beds in North Dakota shows that what i- now a treeless plain was once covered with splendid for-C.-1.40f" hardwood, interspersed with conifers. Numerous and thick beds oi' lignite .make it clear that in this region' there were great swamps at „ne time. Fig trees and a fan palm with leaves six feet across indicate that the climate was as warm or wanner than that now prevailing on the South Atlantic slope of the United States.