NEWS IN BRIEF.
It. is estimated that uinety-tliree per cent, of the ocean floor’ is entirely devoid of plant life. The wages of British workmen have fallen by £540,000,000 in the course of the last two years. Horses, giraffes, and ostriches have the largest eyes of land animals and euttlelish of sea creatures. A Bermondsey widow has died through blood-poisoning caused by pricking her hand with a pen-nib. In 1922 there were 30,799 convictions fox’ druixkemiees in London 0410 of these being against women. Oysters can only live in water that contains at least thirty-seven parts of salt to every one thousand parts of water. Of the adult working population in industrial centres in England, fully 90 per cent, probably bet or assist others in betting. Since the inauguration of the American air mail service, in May, of 1918, American mail pilots have travelled over live million miles. A nurse under Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War has just reached her 101st birthday in the workhouse at W his ton, Lancashii’e. A First Folio edition of Skakespear’s plays, first published at the price of 20s, has been sold for as much as £B6OO.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2676, 27 December 1923, Page 1
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193NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2676, 27 December 1923, Page 1
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