NEWS IN BRIEF.
A hat of gold lace with diamonds set in the brim, and •made recently in Paris, has been insured for £17,240. Men are said to be better customers nowadays for toilet waters, perfumes, and scented -maps than women.
If we moved our legs as last as an ant, we should walk at the rate of 800 miles an hour.
In an explosion in a picture theatre at Montreaux (Swil/.erland), thirty people were hurt, thirteen seriously. •The smallest screws- are those made in watch factories. An ordinary thimble would hold 100,000 of them. London’s borough councils have an average expenditure of £1 8s lid per head of the population in their areas. Dr. Robert Milne, for 42 years chief medical officer to Dr. Barnado’s Homes, died at the age of 73, after an operation. Motor-prams, with a little platform behind for the attendant to stand on, cost from £45 to £l5O apiece in Britain. “Only eat when you feel you need food,” and “Water is the finest of drinks in the world” are two maxims of a well-known London doctor.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2531, 18 January 1923, Page 4
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182NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2531, 18 January 1923, Page 4
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