NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2734, 17 May 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

A woman at Richmond, England, seeking a domestic help, offered (lie use of her puul once a week.

Chickens remain motioules- fur hours during heavy fogs. N'u bird sings or utters a mill in such weather, perhaps because il fears to botrv its whereabouts to an onemv.

Smoking is prohibited up in the clouds above the British Isles. An order of the Air Ministry forbids it i nßritish aircraft everywhere, and in all aircraft over the British Isles.

Meerschaum, the beautiful white earth which is used for expensive pipes, is found in exceptional quantities in the village of Brussa, in Asiatic Turkey, where 2,000 small mines are turn being worked. Eggs and egg pulp in cold storage have been included in the list of articles on which the Statistical Department collects information. The result of the first collection taken on March 3.1 si last showed that there were then 44,942 dozen eggs, 840,8891b5. of egg-pulp, 20,1811hs. of frozen whites in store in the various parts of the Dominion.

General Bramwell Boolli, in :m address in Wellington, was explaining the readiness of the Salvation Army lo help those who stood in need of assistance. Instancing a curious exemplification of this, Instated that recently a Salvation Army officer was proceeding home by a crowded tramear. One passenger for .whom there was no seating accommodation was seen to he fairly on the way lo being tipsy and the officer, seeing that though the inebriated one had a strap, he might at any time let it go and come to grief, offered him his seat. The man thanked tlie officer profusely saying: “You're the only gemmen here who know.- what it is to lie drunk!”

The old joke about the Yankee farmer who mixed sawdust with corn meal and fed it to a blind horse, claiming that as llie horse could not see what lie was eating he got full benefit from the sawdust, is, the Rural New Yorker affirms, no longer a joke. Sawdust, it says, is being fed to dairy cattle with reasonable results. Of course, il is not pure sawdust. It is treated chemically by a process called hydrolysing. This converts a portion of the wood fibre into sugar, and changes the rest into a more or less digestible substance. “The conclusion is that this sawdust may lie substituted for corn and barley without affecting the normal milk llow," that is, when used as a mixture with grain.

A magnificent gift to the scholars of the world was announced recently by Mr J. Pierpoint Morgan. As a memorial to his father, the late Pie'rpont Morgan, lie lias handed over to six trustees for the public Indeed of gift, the whole of the incomparable collection of hooks and manuscripts comprising the famous Morgan library. With them goes the superb marble building in Past 30th street in which they are housed and an endowment of about £300,00(1. The London Times says (lie gift will rank as one of' the most splendid in history. Its value may lie placed approximately at £1 • 000,000 and in many respects it could not ue duplicated. When the Sydney newspapers branded this year’s Koval Show as the “greatest show on earth” it was not so far out as our national modesty would lead us to believe (writes a Sydney correspondent). The crowds which thronged the Agricultural Ground broke all previous records by a substantial margin,- One day alone —Good Friday—l33,ooo people passed through the turnstiles and on the following day another 123,000. Those figures gain an added interest when one reads in the cables that “enormous crowds attended the opening of th world-fam-ed ,British, Empire Exhibition,” and the opening attendance was 150,000, only 17,000 more than the Sydney Show's best day.