NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2558, 22 March 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

London’s wild pigeons are said to be decreasing owing to the disappearance from the streets of horses with their nosebags, which scattered grain. Nicholas von Hortliv, Regent of Hungary, broke with family traditions when he entered the Austrian Navy, as his father was a country gentleman.

New giant locomotives built for the Union Pacific Railway stand .15 ft. lOin. in height, and nearly 100 ft. long, while they weigh more than 201 tons each.

A nominee for I lie position oj judge in Arkansas (U.S.A.) received only one vote. He advertised n reward of five dollars to the mar who voted for him.

“Even if a person chose to sit down in the highway,” a motorist would have no right to li'iove him with his car,” said a County Court Judge in England recently. A chrysanthemum dipped into liquid air at a scientific lecture in London crumbled into small pieces as it came into contact with the normal atmosphere. Dating from before 1(500, Vaults formerly used for brewing beer have been discovered in the ground of Devonshire House, Picadilly, formerly the residence of the Duke of Devonshire.

Li a modern liner of good size, the surgeon has a consulting room, well-fitted dispensary, operating theatre, and qualified assistants in the persons of an anaesthetist and Navy-trained nurses. A beetle which became addicted to drugs could take a daily dose of two <’■rains of morphine, more than enough to kill two men. The insect was discovered in the police headquarters in New York. Fish which sold for over £150,000 was brought into Aberdeen by German trawlers during the past year. This is the only port where Germans have been able to penetrate successfully into the fishing industry. In a “model house” constructed in Lond'on in 1868 for the use of a peer, the kitchen was underground and vault-like, without either water or a sink, and the scullery and pantry were placed a considerable distance away.

Bats avoid collision with trees, etc., when flying in pitch-darkness, not by sight, but by emitting a powerful vibrating note, inaudible to human ears. This vibratory airwave reacts upon meeting an obstacle, and so warns the bat automatically of danger.