NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2808, 8 November 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Climbing the 311 steps to the top of the Monument, London, every day is staled to hnve been the novel euro for a weak heart prescribed by a doctor to a patient. In fast fighting aeroplanes the speed record goes to France with 190 miles an hour, America is next wiih 170 miles while Britain’s toj) speed is 155 miles an hour. After retiring- from his work as a gardener at the age of seventy, a Sunburv man took up eycjing so keenly that in the following eight years lie rode 4(i,O(K) miles. Uniyersity students from Aberystwyth, engaged in excavations at Llanhilleth, Mon., have discovered an ancient castle near to the parish church, Oft. from the surface. Mr E. .1. Campbell, of Thurston County, Washington, announces that through scientific processes lie has developed a stingless bee. The insect is said to yield good honey. Famous Westminster Hospital, in London,‘was founded in 1715, when four philanthropists met in a Fleet .Street coffee shop to discuss a means of caring for the sick. Mrs Mary Barter, who will lie 100 years did in February next, is living in a cottage at Bingham, Notts., which has been occupied by her family since it was built 300 years ago.

The first horse omnibus appeared in London less Ilian a century ago. The last horse-drawn bus belonging to the London General Omnibus Company, was run on October 20, 1911.

So over-supplied is Ireland with women doctors that some of them have been glad to take appointments as assistants in drug stores at £1 per week salary. Aurses who qualified as doctors have nursing.

Suits to measure, ladies’ frocks, and all other dress requisites, can now be purchased on the Majestic, one of the most famous liners, which recently carried 2,790 passengers, including 855 first-class, across the At lantic.

Foreign experts are beginning to speak of malnutrition as the ‘‘American disease.” There are said to be four million children of school age suffering from it. Much of the trouble is due to diseased tonsils, adenoids, and had teeth.

To solve the problem of building a 90ft. dam in the Columbia River without blocking the run of salmon that go up the river to spawn, modei escalators are to he erected to determine whether the fish will consent to this form of transportation.