NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2761, 22 July 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hals arc believed to work iu gangs when carrying egg's. Londoners use, on an average, •34 gallons oi' water per bead daily. The dome of S~t, Paul’s Cathudral, London, weighs 64,000 tons. In the production of the human voice* forty-four muscles are exercised. A human skull, - thought by scientists to be 500,000 .years old, lias been discovered in California. It is estimated that more than 70,000,000 telegi ram forms are used annually in Britain. .More than 00 per cent, of Brit-

nin’s jute, zinc ore, and rubber is imported from Eastern lands. After cremation at Woking the fishes of Captain Hugh Charles Buckle, R.N., were- sea tiered on ihe sea at Spit head. At a church lecture at Aid on, a collection was taken in aid of a fund to provide a spare artificial leg for a priest. The Surrey County Cricket Club is the oldest in England. Tl was founded in ISBI. The Derbyshire Club was founded in 1815. In the sixteenth century wedding-

rings were made with a nndto inscribed inside. Shakespeare refers lo them in two or three of his plays. A new red paint which turns black, if if reaches a certain degree ol' heal is being used to paint parts of machinery which might he damaged if over-heated. It has been estimated that more than -100,000,1)00 himnin mummie.-wi-re made in Egypt from the lie ginning of the art of embalming mi till ils discontinuance in the seventh century. It Inis been discovered that an old paper volume, lying for many years neglected in McGill University Lib rary, Montreal, has in il a precious early edition of one of Shakespeare's plays. A him belonging lo a hulchor al Waddinglon, near Clilheme, peeks al a neighbouring door each morn ing until il is opened. I! then enters, gin's ii ps| airs, and lavs an egg ‘on a bed. A negro who had been implored with a stolen automatic machine containing 250 pieces of chewing gum was sentenced to chew every every pieee of gum in the mechanism, dropping in the slot pennies for every pieee taken out. Miss Ibbofson, postmistress for many years at Hafhersngc. Derby shire, claimed to have received in October, 1885, the lirst sixpenny telegram. This was sent from the House,of' Lords lo (lie Fast mast erGeneral, Lord -John Manners. A woman summoned to serve on the grand jury at the Old Bailey wrote saying that she was deal and had to use an ear trumpet, she thought her services would he of much use. The Lord .Mayor said she must he summoned again. Two of three kittens of a eat at Bentrefeliii, near Portmadoe, were drowned immediately alter birth. Fussy went searching hi the Helds for the missing kittens, nml latter returned with a bn by rabbit in her month. Both are nourishing.

After thirty-five years of export men I ing, a Lincolnshire florist ha produced a new variely ol dallodi hull,, named the "Olympic." whiel stands about one loot higher tliui other daffodils. It lias llower. measuring two inches across tic trumpets ami !i\c across-the petals