NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2750, 26 June 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

When Miss Nellie Pad field, aged 22, won £l2O damages in a breach of promise action at Bath against Charles Wilfred Rawlings. 20, a railway fireman, the jurymen handed her their fees also.

Every beat and temor of the finnan heart can be registered and ihofograplied by means of a new electrical instrument, the eardio p-apfi, which works on ihe principle hat every movement of the heart generates an electric current.

Mark All, who will be 90 year's of age in June, and who claims to he Ihe world’s champion long distance walker, is now engaged on the last stage of a twenty-four years’ walk, in the course of which he has tramped all over the world.

On the main roads in Ontario, it will soon be impossible to lose one's way. if a novel sebeme is adopted. Their highways are already known by numbers, and il is suggested that these numbers should be fixed to overv telegraph pole along each road.

An average of approximately 20 000,000 board feet of logs were shipped monihly from British Columbia to the United States last, venr. The total for the year was 2:10,000.000 feet. The value of the monthly exports was about £OO,OOO. Sixteen barred rock pullets at the

Experimental barm, Nappan, Nova Scotia, have established a record in .•in egg-laying eoniesl. having 100 per cent egg production for a period of four weeks. Two hundred pullets laid 1,170 eggs in one week. According to an official estimate no fewer Ihan 10,000,000 persons were carried in the* four days of the Easter holidays by the London un-der-ground railway and associated undertakings. Easter Monday’s tola] was 5,500,000, half a million more than last year’s record.

A professor, speaking at the Jubilee Celebrations of the National Physical Society, declared that when an important discovery was once announced from Manchester, a great man said: “Can any good thing come out of a town which dines in the middle of the day?”

Two silver coins of the reigns ofHenry ATI and Henry A 7 IH were contained in a Peter’s Pence collecting box, dating from pre-Reformation times, recovered from St. Kyneburgr, Church, Castor, near Peterborough. They wore bidden-in a crevice, and must have been in the box undisturbed since the lfith century.

The largest bell in the world is ihal known as the Great Bell oi Moscow, which weighs 220 tons. It was cast for Ihe Kremlin in I<3l by order of the Tsai- Nicholas IT., but fell when workmen were banging it. It was broken and has remained ever sineejm Ihe spot where it fell.