NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2644, 11 October 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Tho first great private bouse, as distiuel from a castle, ever built in England, was T.onglenl, the seat of file Marquis.nf Rath. An eight-storey Hour mill in Kansas City is to be heated entirely by the heat generated from (lie friction of the grinding machinery. An Airedale terrier that attacked a parrot which had escaped from its cage in Ealing was wounded and put to flight by the bird. “A pint of milk, eggs, orange, and greens will give you vour daily vifamiiies” is the rhyming adviee of a Sheffield physician. Royalties amounting to Til.()<)() were paid to Sir Arthur Sullivan during liis life, as a result of tlio popularity of “The Lost Chord.’' Red Indians have given over £200,000 to the Baptists of America as a token of appreciation of the work done among their young people. In the report of a Enlliam society the word “salary" has been changed to “honorarium” because, it is staled, il is more aristocratic.

Tn .Tnpan is a sol)lenient where (he wives support the husbands mnl ehihlren and are the acknowledged heads of the family. The men keep house. Mrs John Bcekett and Mrs Warren of' Attleborough, Norfolk, twin sisters, have eelebrated their 90th birthday. They are believed to be ihe oldest living twins. A French doctor has sueeessed in Tti successful eases in transfusing animal blood into human beings. He used horses and sheep for his initial experiments.

During the war 78.000 Belgian houses were destroyed or greatly damaged, and 22,000 more were made uninhabitable. Now 71,383 have been either rebuilt, restored, or made useful.