NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2523, 28 December 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The area of England is 50.874 miles.

Spiders have from six to eight

eves. The world uses 600,0011,0(10 pins a week. The common flea is really a wingless fly. v Radium is 17,000 times more valuable than gold. There are more than 500 muscles in the body. The muscles of the human jaw exert a force of 53411). Dew is only found on vc.-.-els within 30 miles of land. It takes a gallon of milk to make a pound of cheese. Giraffes can see behind them without turning their heads. About 1,100 kinds of insects make their homes in oak trees. Lusitania, was originally the name of a large portion of Portugal. At the age of 15 years a dog is more decrepit than a man of 80. • Three hundred years ago the population of London was only 150,000. In proportion to its size, a fly walks 35 times faster than a man. The Bank of England was founded by a Scotchman who died in poverty. One hundred pounds of raw meat weighs only 6711) after roasting. Lions and tigers are too weak in lung power to run more than half a mile. Beetles, moths, and butterllics do not grow once they arc out of the caterpillar stage. Three hundred thousand worlds the size of this earth could be stored inside the sun. There are more than 300 railway stations within 12 miles of SI. Raul’s Cathedral. Madrid lies higher than any other European capital. Its height above the sea is 2,090 ft. Tobacco does not cause cancer, according to a great medical specialist in diseases of the throat. A giant aeroplane to carry 24 soldiers has been successfully tested at the Brooklands aerodrome. The years between the ages of 25 and 40 seem to pass more quickly than any other period of life. There is every possibility that Birmingham will have a third municipal golf course by next spring. Believed to be 500 years old, a salamander Oft. long has been discovered in a temple in Tokio. Two boys named Beans and Bacon were charged at Mansfield Police Court, with playing football in the street. Flowers and leaves in their natural colours are used in the “painting” of remarkable pictures by a London artist. Antioch in the fourth century is believed to have been the first city to make an attempt to light its streets at night. Poultry feathers weighing 4,000 tons, and valued at over half a million were imported into Great Britain in 12 months.