NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2746, 17 June 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tilt* efi( wni unknown to England (ill flu* tenth century, when (hero was a document stntmg that a man would he fined fourpenee for killing a eat. and eighlpeneo if lie killed the Kina'* eat.

Trainee that there should he more dignity- and impressiveness in eonlirniation serviees the Bishop of Exeter says that at one serviee he saw some of the hoy candidates antine; sweets and cracking’ nuts.

Guy's Hospital, in London, has installed a hermetically-sealed e-lass eli a miter in which patient's needing oxygen are plaeed for several days, so that they ran breathe air containing double the amount of oxygen found in the ordinary atmosphere of the ward.

A few weeks ago a youth tried to swim across the Liver Eromn, Bristol, and was drowned. A friend of (ho missing- man dream! lie saw Use body lying beneath the surface of the water at a certain spot. Hi visited the spot indicated in his dream and found the body.

A pcnny-in-the-slot wireless receiving out fit; lias made its appearance at Wa-hingioii, U.S.A. The receiver is equipped with a special apparatus which gives advance information as to tin- immediate nvaliability of wireless entertainment. and posts of warning twenty seconds before another coin is due.

Hr. Foley, head of the physics department at Indiana University, calculates that 2.134,020 tons of coal are consumed annually in general ins steam to blow the United Slates locomotive whistles, and (hat if the whistles were moved slightly forward and adapted to a Bugle high-pitched note more than .C 1,000.000 annually could he sav-

A new kind of eraser made in the shape of a pencil has been invented, ft can be sharpened in l he same way as the paper pencil, by loosening I lie strips of paper round it with a penknife and then sharpening il in the ordinary way. The idea the point is that one or more letters of a word can be erased without smudging or rewriting the whole word.

“Uncle” the common name for pawnbrokers in England, is replaced by “aunt” in Baris, where the State pawnbroker was also formerly known as the Afonte-de-Biete in- Mountain of Bity. Clothes stealing has been quite an epidemic form of crime in London lately. Suburban villas and AYest End fiats have been robbed. Clothes being apparently the booty searched for.

Babies as young as three years old are said to he employed m the crowded tenements of New York on home work for the factories. They help to make dolls, toys, and artificial (lowers.