NEWS IN BRIEF.
Berlin's population is declining. Although it has a huge tongue, the whale has very little sense of taste. Tomatoes to a total weight of HO.OOO tons were grown in Kngland last year. A full medical education in lingland now costs £1,500 for the course. ilrs Harriet Cobbledick, who has just died at- Plymouth, was 103 last January. Infants have an exceptionally keen sense of taste, which is dulled as they develop. The national grant .to the Crown was tixed at £400,000 in 1910, at which figure it still remains. Promptly at 5.30 each morning a Welsh terrier wakes its master and mistress, who live at Teddington. Blntdow-shows, for which wax figures were used, were popular ' u China thousands of years ago. Pair-haired girls make the best as they are quicker in movement, waitresses, according to one expert,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2515, 7 December 1922, Page 1
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140NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2515, 7 December 1922, Page 1
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