NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2706, 11 March 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Walking lessons are to be added to the studies of one Chicago college, where bad deportment was said to cause 40 per cent, of the students to suffer from foot troubles.

Boys and girls leaving the Wil lesden schools, London are taken in hand by the District Council, which endeavours to find them the work for which they arc best tilted. ’

Wolf hunting in Russia before the war was often done with wolves which were kepi in captivity and released only to be chased down by mounted hiyitsmcn and swift hounds.

Cannibals recently discovered in New Guinea are reported bv an explorer to have features of a distinctly Jewish Type, although their skius are bronze.

Divorce eases are decreasing m number every year in England. The figure was highest in IfllO, when 57(53 eases were heard; in 1022 they had sunk to 3005.

Women jurors to tlu* number of 1.3,800 were summoned in dill event parts of England in 1022. Lobsters have a great dread of thunder and when peals are very loud will swim to deeper water. Rabbits bred in Holland from English stock are being used to make chinchilla wraps and coals. British hoots imported into Canada last year showed an increase in value of £35,000 over 1022. Portable cinematograph machines are suggested as an aid to commercial travellers in securing orders.

The daily average of water supplied to London by the Metropolitan Water Board is over 243,000.000 gallons.