NEWS IN BRIEF.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2554, 13 March 1923, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.”

Frog's generally disperse at night. King George’s Crown weighs 39 ounces. Omnibuses first ran in London in 1829. 160 plays were produced in London during 1922. The average depth of the English Channel is 110 feet. For every inch of stature a man should weigh 311). 5 oz. In Japan 3,000 newspapers and magazines are published. Twenty-two daily newspapers are published in London. The greatest number of deaths is caused by heart disease. In 1921 165,200,000 tons of coal were raised from British mines. The present Archbishop of Canterbury is the ninety-fourth Primate. Collars go through as many as seventeen processes in some laundries. Russia’s population is twentyone millions less than it was seven years ago. The record number of words sent in one minute by the Morse code is forty-nine. South Africa furnishes about 03 per cent of the world’s supply of indiarubber. Sugar has been made at Liverpool University by means of the action of light on carbonic acid. Women sleep more lightly and require less sleep than men, according to a French scientist. Repairs to Atlantic telegraph cables have often to be carried out up to a depth of 3,000 fathoms. Three toy ballons sent up during shopping week at Kingston, England, came to earth in France. For a sewing machine costing £7 12s in London the price in Petrograd is 737,200,000 roubles. Egyptian wom'en arc said to be exceedingly graceful in figure and pose, though not beautiful of face. Afternoon tea-parties with vaccination as an added attraction were recently fashionable in London. The King of Spain has had the longest reign of any ruler in Europe, having ascended the throne in 1886. After laying 50,000 miles of submarine cables in forty-eight years, the famous ship, the Faraday, has retired. “Flowers open and close according to temperature and not because of the daylight,” says a French scientist. Lightning strikes loamy soil 22 times as often as chalk, and sandy soil and clay with intermediate frequency. Aged only ten months, a baby girl of Louisana, America, has 16 teeth, weighs 501 b. and measures 12m. in height. After appearing in “The Beggar’s Opera.” 998 times, one of the actors forgot his lines at the 999th performance. The old Thames Police Court, London, soon to be demolished, occupies a site on which a Court was - held 1000 years ago. A swimming bath at Hull has held the same water for months, purity being obtained by a constant process of filtration. ] Out of one hundred men, about forty per cent talk in their sleep. Among women the number is thirty live per cent. An electric light fixed on a fin-ger-ring worn by factory workers, is one means of checking the efficiency of his or her movements. “It is possible for a person to be unable to read words and yet able i to calculate and read figures,” says a well- known doctor. Stowaways on Atlantic lineis are said to be often helped b.v members of the crew in return for a < ash payment of £5 a head. Deck chairs which can be hired cheaply for the use of third-class passengers are an innovation on one line of Atlantic steamers.