NEWS IN BRIEF.
The heart of a Greenland whale is often a yard in diameter.
A cord of wood will make about Oti.OdO pages of ordinary paper.
Twenty miles of sewing cotton may he used in the making of a fur coat. •Jamaica was originally named Xavmaon, meaning “Land of Wood and Water.” The 7-oar of n waterfall is produced hy the bursting of millions of air Jmbbles. There were nearly as many den, tbs by violence as from old age in London in 1922. An Eastern wood carver recently completed a table containing 133,31 (I pieces of wood. San Ej-anciseo has llie only telephone exchange in America devoted l<> Chinese patrons. A disused barracks Plymouth is to he used to provide homes for t wenly-eight. families. Glasgow University, founded in 1450, is the oldest in Scotland, except St. Andrews. A cod recently caught off the New-foinidland coast was sft. Gin. long and weighed 6011). If London’s soot for one year could he collected in a pile, it would cover Westminster Abbey. The largest railway signal-box in Great Britain is at Glasgow, and contains 488 separate levers. There are ninety-one public libbraries in the area administered by "the London County Council.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2776, 26 August 1924, Page 1
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201NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2776, 26 August 1924, Page 1
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