NEWS IN BRIEF
A postman, T. IT. Bavins, who has .journeyed flit* equivalent of fourteen times round the world in the eourse of his duties, has just retired, after forty-six years’ survive, at Wirral, Cliesshire. X-rays have been put to many uses, including the preserving of f'm’s against. ninths, testing' ehoeolato made by machinery, and killing it microscopic insect which attacks cigars. The wealth of Paris is so houndless that tin l rubbish and refuse of the city are worth million-. There are more than 50,000 persons earning a living by pieking up what others throw away. At Redditeh, England, 20,000 people make more than 100,000,000 needles a year, and they are made and exported so cheaply that. Pngland has no rival, and practically monopolises the trade. Lost children in Japan do not long remit in astray. It i- the custom for parents to label their children with their addresses, so that in ease they go astray any wayfarer may .-end them home. Every swan found on British river- or seas may he seized hy the Crown and become its property, unless it hears its owners mark. The King's birds .are marked on the beak with the Royal initial. “Tf a man, who is riding on a donkey and is bitten hy a scorpion, turns round and faces the donkey's tail, the pain will leave him and go to the donkey." This quaint ‘‘prescription" i- given in a priceless notebook 5(1(1 years old. now in the Xew York Library. A motor-cyclist -unnnoned at Million (Yorks') for not having an effective silencer -cut to court an advertisement of hi- machine, which ran: “The entire absence of noise i- -O complete that mi a country load you can hear the birds singing ill lilt* trees.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2680, 8 January 1924, Page 1
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293NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2680, 8 January 1924, Page 1
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