NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2807, 6 November 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The coronation chair in Westminister Abbey was made in 129(1. [i has only been outside the abbey once since that date.

A monument has been unveiled at Avesnes to Jesse de Forest, an early French emigrant who helped to found New York City.

.In the Sabie game preserve, in South Africa, there are more than 8,000 lions, which do great damage Io surrounding farms.

Within ten miles of St. Paul’s, London, is a clean beach of pebble and sand, where children bathe. This is nt Dagenham oil the Thames. If human beings moved their legs proportionately as fast as the an! it is calculated that they could travel nearly 800 miles an hour. Of the men who attend army training schools while still serving with the colours, SO per cent, tind civil employment on their discharge. Tobacco bought bv public subscription for the American soldiers in France, and never delivered, lias been thrown away in New -Jersey. Beekeeping, farming and market gardening are among the oecttpationh taught to British soldiers during their service with the colours. Without either legs or hands, Air Frank Eniglit, of Sussex, is a working builder. Ife writes Ids letters bolding the pen between bis teeth. Too much blood is staled to be the ailment afflicting a hospital patient in Afonfreal. He lias three- rimes as much, blood as a normal person. The finest peal of belts in t Inworld is being east at Cmydeii for Mr John D. Rockefeller. A special i lower is being built in New York' to hold them. | Cats are privileged in St. Ives, the Cornish fishing town. Children rarej lv chase thorn, and even a busy fishI wife never drives them from tier I path. j For 50 years Mrs At. A. Wick, agj c-d SO, Inis held the license of the | Turk’s Head, SI. Alargarel's-on- | Thames, being the oldest women publican in the country. Careless drying of clothes before a lire and throwing aside of lighted eigarefte-ends and mulches arc the commonest causes of house tires in London. Web-footed, with long, silicon hair a dog*wliieh is found in the Amazon valley does not bark. Instead it utters a musical whistling sound, rattier like \-hii-ping. Malmesbury can probably hoasi the oldest Court haiiff in the United Kingdom. Hale and hearty at the age of 91, Mr Fred Clark still discharges his duties. Crime is slated by an American Judge to be due to a physical defect of the brain. This is based on the results of -10,09!) tests made in Chicago Courts. England is the great country of aui-ienl mcmofml brasses, possessing about -1,000. Wales has about 20, Scotland only three. Ireland, live, and the Continent about 250. During a severe thunderstorm in .the Baltic Sea seagulls were observed flying about with small blue chetric flames on their beaks and at the tips of their tails and wings. Rotherham's bridge chapel, which is nearly 450 years old, has been in tern an almshouse, a. gaol and a tobacconist’s shop. It has now been reconstructed as a. place of worship. On the’ occasion of the fourth centenary, September 11, of the birth of Pierre de Ron.sard, the French (iovernim-nt has authorised the issue of a special postage slump of 75 centimes.

.Mistresses und school girls in camp at Brickbat!, Buckinghamshire, changed places for a day. the mistresses having to obey the cooking ail'd others orders of the girls in I lie form they taught.

Apart from cathedrals, the spire of St. Michael’s Church. Coventry, is the loftiest church spire in England, towering 303 ft. above the ground. It is second only to those of Salisbury and Norwich Cathedrals. Dr. Isaac Taylor says the name Canada is probably the native word Kamila, which means a collection of huts or wigwams—this is, a village oi- settlement —and was no doubt mistaken by Europeans as the native name of the Country.

Torbay soles, reputed to be among the finest-flavoured iish of the seas, are, according to the statement of an American naval diver, being driven away from the bay because its bottom is covered with clinkers,

discharged from naval and other j vessels. ; During the month of September I over £250*000 was spent in building j in Wellington. ! The sculling race at Hamilton last, month was not a .success financially, tin- deficit being in the vicinilv of, £l2O. A teacher was describing life in the, East to a class of small boys, with iho aid of pictures. “Here.'-’ said she, pointing, “is a picture of a ford at the river Jordan.” •‘darn,” protested an observant pupil, “that's ain’t a Ford —that's a camel!” The Americans arc expecting great things in (he next Olympic dames from a .17-year-old high school boy, Hussey, from New York City. Ho was sent to the Paris dames for necessary experience and used only in team races, in the latter events he is claimed to have beaten Abrahams, tig; English crack, over 100 wards.

Aj the Atlantic Parle camp, near Eastleigh, there arc numbers of Russian and Polish Jew emigrants who have been waiting more than twelve months to enter the l nile.l Stares. Officials speak highly ot (heir menial powers and regard the children especially as “amazingly clever.” ’ Among the old by-laws <>| London an- decrees that: ‘‘No man shall shoot in the street, for wager or otherwise,” “shall dig any hole in ilie street, except lie stop it up again,” ‘ ‘shall keep any rule whereby outcry made in tire still of the night, as beating his wife or servant, or singing, under pain of ■> 4.” If Spaniards take one thing more seriously than anything else it is football. That is the impression taken back to England by 25 Manchester- schoolboys, who returned Inst month after a month’s holiday in that country. They played two onincs of football during their stay, losing one, while the other ended in n draw.