NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2622, 21 August 1923, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

It is proposed that a new wireless license for home-made sets be issued in England. An English boy is a member of the Astronomical Society of France. He is only fourteen. 'Jean Ca-ale, a French aviator, rose in an aeroplane to a height of 23,022 feet. This is a record. At a recent sale the Breadalbane State carriage of IStii century workmanship, was sold for £ll Us. } The rainfall in England during | the month of February exceeded the records of nearly half a century. The population of Dumfries eat on an average about two tons of chocolates and other sweets every Week. ! 033,000 tons of pig iron were proi dueed in Great Britain in March, j Wliiss is tlio largest output since 1021. France has adopted baseball with great enthusiasm, and it is being played at many of the French schools. t A reward of twopence for every queen wasp brought to them is offered by a Twickenham jam-making (inn. The White Xinr liner Cedric, on a recent trip to New York, carried five hundred canaries among the. cargo. In an attempt C. hold up business in tile American Senate, one of the senators made a speech which lasted for 10:} hours. Middlesex Education Committee hope to make it possible for children in the school to employ themselves in making wireless sets. A new cable-laying steamer lias just been lauchcd at ,Jarrow. It is capable of carrying cables suUito span the Atlantic. In the. last twenty-two years over a million and a quarter rats have been killed by the London Port Sanitary Ant liorities. Ail oil expert has estimated that at the present rate of consumption the oil supplies of the world will give out within twenty years. Over a thousand men have spent eight weeks “spring-cleaning” the Aquitania. The vessel lias a new rudder, weighing eighty-five tons. “Give the feminine of hero” was a question put to pupils in a South London secondary school. One bright scholar answered: “Sliero.” ()50,000,l)00n. of film were produced during last year. The Russian Soviet has fixed Monday as the weekly holiday instead of Sunday. While a briar root was being cut to make pipe bowls, a stone of fair size was discovered; geogolists say that the stone must have been imprisoned by the root for 1,000 years. For the use of the London Metropolitan Police Force, a new edition of ,the “Instruction Book” has been issued. IH.qoptains 050 closelyprinted pages, ,and weighs nearly 3 pounds. Most of the churches in Naples have three or four cats attached to them. They are kept for the purpose of catching mice which infest all ancient buildings. The animals may often be. seen walking about among the congregation or stretched before the altars,

An instance of Spartan f'orlitude was revealed by a b y of thirteen : years, in Onclnmga, i ecently -(-ays an exchange). ’The i.-;l was endonvouring to separate i w > dogs which were fighting, when one bit Ins linger just above the naii ami the. oilier tore the flesh of one of Ids'legs. The hoy went calmly home and underwent troalment without showing s ign of: pain, despite ilie fact he had lost tho jip of Ids finger and was also suffering limn the loss of a good deal of blood.