NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2777, 28 August 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Journeys in British Guiana which usually take six weeks by river, are now to be done by aeroplane in three hours. Rents amounting to more than £25(1,000 are collected annually by the City of London from property which it owns. A badgar cornered in a hen run in Antrim attacked its four captors md was only overcome after a fierce struggle. Machines which sort money into the various denominations, and count it, are likely to revolutionise banking methods. An engine which rules up to 28,SOO lines to the inch is installed at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington. Girls acted as recruiting’ “sergeants” in getting the men of a North London suburb to .join the local territorial regiment. •‘I have always considered nurses to be the worst paid body of' workers in England." said Sir Evcrard Tfambro recent Iv. Measuring only :fin. high. the smallest camera in the world has been presented to Queen Alary for 'he Queen’s Dolls’ House. The (rams, buses, a ml railways of the London Underground combine carried 11,400.(10(1 passengers during a recent week-end. Rose leaves wore made much use of for medicines and ointments centuries ago, while rose water and rose wine were used as drinks. Tin hairsp' ,; ng of a watch weighs huf one-twentieth of a grain per inch. One mile o* such wire would, weigh less titan half a pound. Of London’s 20,000 thoroughfares. 112 are named “Clmroh." the next most popular names being “Park.” “Crown” and ‘Tictoria." hen at Ashford. Rent, which had brought f- ’ h a family of young clucks mothered a aeu ly-h.ateliod seeming which till inf the nest. Tin 1 Arruv is becoming so scientific (hat men who enlist now can he trained in wireless, and a> dispensers, X-rav operators ami masseurs. Chinese wives inn.-t serve their parents-in-law as they would their own father and mother, even in the extent of assisting them in their toilet. Last year 1,005,35:5 people visited the British Alusomn. This is the largest number recorded since 1851. the year of the first Great Exhibition. Vacuum cleaners arc being' used by the French police to extract dust from prisoners’ clothing, so that it can be examined under the microscope. Liverpool’s new cathedral, when completed, will he the largest church in the country, and beaten i}l size only by St. Peter's, Rome, and Seville among cathedrals. Airs Louisa Debit, of London, holds the world’s record as it cook, having retired at the age ot !)4 after being employed for 7(1 years as a cook in the same family. Aliniature feeding bottles containing a few drops of soothing liquid were shown at a recent Chemists’ Exhibition; they are suggested as substitutes for babies’ eomforlers. The bride's cake of to-day is a relie of a Roman custom. At a Roman marriage the bride was expected to prepare a part at least of the wedding least with her own hands. Colds, bronchitis, and other chest complaints are being- treated in America with chlorine gas. The patients sit in a room breathing an atmosphere of chlorine very much diluted.

The greatest depth ill which a (liver has worked with success is 182 feet. The hero <;!' this exploit was a Spanish diver who recovered (>,- 000 dollars in silver from a wreck nti Finisterre. The earliest attempt at sewing by machinery of which there is any authentic record was in 1755, when a machine was patented in England by Charles F. VVeiseuthal. During the last four years British aeroplanes have flown more than two million miles, and have varied upwards of 30,000 passengers, apart form the transport of mails and other freight.