NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2528, 11 January 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Crocodiles roar like bulls. The average Londoner lives 57 years.

Frogs cannot breathe with tile mouth open. Only 10 out of every 100 dowers are scented.

Members of coloured races never have blue eyes.

! A square foot of honeycomb eontrains 10,000 cells. The sun gves 800,000 times more : Hu'Jitr than the moon. Norway sends 200,000 tons or' iee i fco* London every year. [n proportion, a. cockroach is 20 times stronger than a horse. I Sixty thousand tous of tomatoes 'were grown. in England last year. The farming population of the ! OTnited States is estimated at 31,i H1T,200. Windsor Castle hits been a Royal i residence for more tlntn 800 years-. Of every 1000 marriages celebrateii in Loudon.. La ij.ru between eonsin.*’. A. thickness- of nine feet of vegetation is required to make one foot | of eoaL In; Holland more than 10,000 acres are devoted- to- the cultivation of : buhls-. The nhn of a- soa-p bill)I)hi- is tile 2:,)<)H,oooth port of an inch in thickness.. On. South; Eensihgtom. Loudon., the women voters outnumber the men by JOTS;. The typhoid: bacillus is so minute dint a; drop- of water-might contain miliums.. Twenty, more- inches of nun fail every year ih the West, of England, than in. the Ea-c. The artrerags- are of Londoners

lias increased by two years during tlie last decade.

There were 16 persons aged 100 and over in London at the taking of the census last year.

Railways in Uganda run through jungles which have been described as the “Zoo let loose.” One of the most famous “d*»<sliouses” in Whitechapel has been converted into a pleasure palace. The air in Zululand is s<> clear that objects can he seen at a distance of seven miles by starlight. In August last 281 ships, paying more than £250,000 in tolls, passed through the Panama Canal. Of the boys employed in London as van boys and messengers only 2 per cent pass on into skilled trades. Structurally separate dwellings to the number of 18,96!) were discovered to be vacant last year in London.

Danish eggs are numbered by a special system whereby each can be traced to the farm from which it originated. A boy or girl who cannot spell ai the age of 14 or 15 years, says one educational expert, will never learn. The average pianist has, in one minute to read 1,5<)0 notes aim signs. His lingers make about 2.000 movements.