NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2714, 29 March 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tlio human heart has U> do as much work in twenty-four hours as a machine would to Jil t 125 tons of iron. Tips of £l2 each were handed to a barman and the head waiter of a Riviera hotel by an American visitor-. Snow on some mountain-tops never melts because the rarclied air abstracts all the heat from the surrounding objects. Of the members of the Royal family the Duke of York is the best billiard player, although he is lefthanded. Englishmen drink live Limes as much tea as coffee, while Americans consume eight times as much coffee as tea. A .petition recently presented to President Coolidge asking for the entry of the United (Slates into the World Court had over a mile of signatures.

Hours of sunshine in London in 1923 totalled 1427, Iml there were also 7000 flashes of lightening. December was the dullest month of last year.

Britain is not. over-populated. The population of the whole world could be placed in tlu* smallest English county, with room to spare. London’s busiest spot for traffic is Hyde Park Corner, where, on an average day, 50,0(10 vehicles pass between the hours of S a.m. and 3 p.m.

Christianity was known in China about A.D. 000. This is proved by a monument discovered in NorthWest China, and which was erected A.D. 7SI.

Fish preserved by the freezing process for as long as 14 days may be in a better state for consumption than much of the fish ordinarily sold as fresh.

A camel carries the load of two oxen and can do 40 miles a day for a fortnight on end, with a load of 4001 b. They arc lit to work at live years old. It is stated that there are more specimens of the cellar'of Lebanon in the gardens round London than on Mount Lebanon itself.

At a meeting of the Executive of the Cathedral Building Committee, preliminary sketch plans of the proposed Nelson Cathedra! wore approved. The Cathedral, when finished, will cost, £BO,OOO, The eastern portion will be proceeded with when sufficient funds are in hand. A sum of £20,000 left by the late Miss Marsden will bo available for tliip.

That the punishment of being sent to bed so often imposed on troublesome children, can he applied to adults also was evidenced in I lie hearing of a maintenance case before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M.. at Auckland. The complainant in seeking an order for the maintenance of herself and her three children, alleg-

ed that her husband was persistently cruel to her and bad on one occasion ordered her to remain in bed until she could recall where she had mislaid his business papers. Defendant said that be thought be was quite justified in taking this step to refresh his wife’s memory. The magistrate made an order for maintenance at the rate of £2 5/per week.