NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2529, 13 January 1923, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

“Navy lives” were Government stock issue of pay for powder and shell for the Napoleonic wars over a century ago.

Since the Armistice 2(i French officers and soldiers have been murdered in Germany, while 83 have been seriously wounded. Knitted ties and over-ornamen-ted walking: sticks have fallen under the ban of the best-dressed men in Paris soeietv.

The- Arab horse is said to be the oldest of existing- domestic breeds. Its records can be traced back for 1,300 years.

The sap in a vine circulates with live time the force of blood through the most important blood-vessel of a horse’s leg. The first paper mill in England was erected at Dart-ford, Kent, in 1590. It was built by Sir John Spielmann, a German.

Contrary to a prevalent opinion, the pig, although a great feeder, thoroughly appreciates a bed of clean straw and a bath.

Two Atlantic liners, crossing from South America to Southampton recently, kept together throughout a distance of 7,000 miles.

A successful student in the recent London University “Metric,” in Ceylon section, spelt his name with lifty-lave letters.

Pianos, writing and card tables, and armchairs are provided in lounge ears running on the Austalian-Trans-Continental Railway.

Translations of the Bible, or portions of it, are published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 550 different languages.

A restaurant proprietor in England may not detain a customer who, after ordering a meal, says it is not wanted and refuses to pay for it.

Europeans over the age of thirtylive stand the climate of the Gold Coast better than do younger men, it is stated in an official report. A police court is not intended solely for the police, said a London magistrate, but “as a place where fhe people can seek and obtain ,just ice."

Rats have damaged the organ in St.- Michael's Cornhilf, London; as long ago as 1457, three rat-traps were purchased for use in the church at a cost of (id.

A priest in the Pyrenees has invented an apparatus based on the principle of radio-activity, which, it is claimed, will detect the existence of oil-bearing areas. .

The investigation of the expenses of the Royal household by a committee appointed by the King has made possible a saving of between £IO,OOO and £20,000 a year. Resembling-ail ordinary llashlamp a new invention is really an effective automatic pistol, which will shoot six shots at a target illuminated by the lamp’s rays.

'l'lie Veddas. now an almost extinct race of Ceylon, have two remarkable characteristics. None of them have ever been known to laugh and they seem unable to tell a lie. •Jackal fur, which costs 10s a skin a few years ago and was regarded by all furriers as “hideous.” has now become fashionable and the pice has risen to £-1 a skin.

Girls wider Hi will lie refused admittance to dances in one district of Northern France unless accompanied by their father, mother, or some (inly appointed chaperone. When cigarettes, pipe tobacco, and cigars are compared, weight tor weight, the amount of nicotine absorbed into the system of a smoker is greatest in the case of the lirst. Two despatch boats engaged in marking dangerous wrecks in the English Channel have located over -10 wrecks off the ports of Dunker(pte, Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe, and Ha rve.

Skirts not less than Tin off the ground, and cut so as to give perfect freedom of movement, are demanded by the American Federation of: Women’s Clubs, representing 300,000 women.

Film photographs have been taken of the most striking features of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the dims will be shown throughout the countrv in support of the cathedral restoration fund.

Scavengers were originally officials who collected Seavage, a lax imposed in many English towns upon all goods exposed for sale within tlieii boundaries. The tax was abolished bv Henry VH.

People who suffer from chilblains should endeavour to go through the winter without gloves, according to one doctor. If they cannot do this, they should use loose-fitting gloves of lined leather.

While unpacking a crate of.bananas a Sheffield fruiter found an opossum among the wrappings. The animal must have been there J.oi three or four weeks during the transit and cold storage.