“NEWS IN BRIEF.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2540, 8 February 1923, Page 4

“NEWS IN BRIEF.”

Four persons in United States had incomes of £1,000,000 or more in 1920, according" to the statistics just published of the internal revenue. A man refused to clean the windows of a house at Blackheath, in London, because he feared electrocution from an amateur wireless set that had been installed. Contracts amounting to upwards of £1,000,000 for the recontsruction of many of the devastated villages in the Department of the Aisne have been entrusted to a British firm. During the last summer season accidents in Switzerland were unusually numerous, and 35 lives were lost. Seven people lost their lives I when looking for edelweiss, and 14 accidents at least were due to imj prudence or inexperience. Four original verses written by Robert Burns were discovered in an old volume recently offered for sale in London. Inscribed in pencil, they have been inked carefully over by the first owner of the book, a friend of the national Scottish poet. A German husband, whose wife mysteriously disappeared, advertisled as follows: —“My dear wife, Frau , is lost.” (Here came a I description of the lady). “To anyone who finds her and keeps her, I will give a rewhrd of 1,000 marks.”