NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2778, 30 August 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Oil the pay mil of the American Government arc 2.700,000 public servants, receiving about C 7 000 a year, and fiTO.OOt) pensioners drawing annually ab-nt! f.'l>s.ft()ft.ftoft. Xo fewer than ISO.00(1 American motor cars visited the Canadian province of Quebec last year. They took half a million tourists, who spent over three million pounds there. “Robbed” hair lias caused trouble among the school teachers in Philadelphia. They have been told that they must either wear hair nets or do without an increase -in pay. Out of two hundred and seventy passengers from Stornoway to Canada on one liner recently, all wore Presbyterians, and one hundred and seventy-five Imre names commencing wilh Mac. A drove of “floating islands" was recently encountered by a steamer ~‘V the const of Borneo. The largest was about seven acres, and contained palm trees over a hundred feel high. The bruin of an ant is about the size of a darning needle's head. These insects live from eight to ten veers, :1 s a general ride nl'homrli pc .•linens in captivity have been known In reach the acre of lifim-n. The population of the l nded Si a ii-s on .Tauuarv 1. wn- c-iivanied at Vl9.S2fi.ofto. an im-ream mime ibc last half of the In?! vear of LH>2 - 000. which is considmed to be the ni//s| remarkable in the history "I the count rv. A barber in a small New V)i > lown bought a very valuable chicken indeed for S'- the otlmi 1 -D While cleaning the crop a diamond worth nearly a. liumlred .p>mmls fell nut. As the bird arrived in a huge .shipment from the West ii i- 1,11 p.msible to trace the owner of the jewel. *