NEWS IN BRIEF.
Naturalists tell ns that the caterpillar can eat twice its own weight, in leaves in twenty-four hours. A pigeon' which won a race from Doncaster to Bletchlcy flew at the rate of 1183 yards per minute. “Corner shops” in the United States are selling cheap oiled-paper umbrellas for people caught in a rainstorm. Although some kinds of fungus are imbued with a deadly poison, no insect or bird ever falls a victim to them. Having helped to put: out the flames on a blazing motor-cycle, at Egham, Surrey, one of the firemen bought the wreck for £ls.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2650, 25 October 1923, Page 1
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100NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2650, 25 October 1923, Page 1
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