NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2738, 27 May 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Once the town house of the Bishops of Winchester, Winchester House, St. James’, London, has been bought by a club. Tiny pictures on the finger nails, carried out in harmless thin enamel is a fashion fad among London society women. Crocodiles grow quickly for the first; few years of their lives; then their rate of growth slows down to about one inch a year. The Ampthil! guardians have stopped the relief’ of a. man whose illness was stated to he due to the effects of excessive cigarette smoking. Eight British M.'sP. own the surname Davies, another eight are named Williams, seven are called Jo nos, while there are only three Smiths. Naphthalene worked into the garden soil in the proportion of one ounce, to the square yard is a protection against certain destructive moth larvae. Matches, for long a State monopoly in France, are to be made by a private firm in return for a large “royalty” to the French Government.

Special perfumes, which are intended to restore the natural scents of flowers deprived of this attraction by early forcing are being made in Austria.

In answer to an advertisement for a curate for an English Chare,h, applications were received from one man aged seventy three and another sixtv-nine.

Watches sometimes are very seriously a fleeted by tlie magnetism of their wearers. In most eases those who have this affect are dark eomplexioned. The spread of education in Britain is one of the main causes of the decrease in crime during the last 30 years, according to one of His Majesty’s judges. The oldest, classical collection of butterflies and insects in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, was made 150 years ago, but it is still perfect. Cages, which contain cradles, and which can tie suspended outside the windows of flats, are a novel suggestion in England for the use of town babies. Thirty-four schools for the blind fourteen for the deal', und seventyeight for the mentally defective children are maintained by the London County Council. Eyeglasses with platinum rims and adorned with narrow black ribbon are threatening to supplant the horn rimmed spectacles in popularity with women.