NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2812, 18 November 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 175 different pieces m an average watch. Originally a yard meant the circumference of the body. Many of Britain’s most successful bee-keepers are women. Aspirin tablets numbering up to 500,000,000 are consumed in Britain every year. London is gradually adopting the American breakfast of cereals and fruit. Last year 50,000 people made use of the camping grounds at Yosemite National Park. A beehive contains usually one queen, from 300 to 400 drones, and 40,000 workers. In a recent Willesden Court case, four successive witnesses said they were unable to read. Over-eating is said to be much more common in North England than in the South. Ninety-seven out of every hundred words in the English Bible are of Anglo-Saxon origin. A live kingfisher was found recently in Lord Rosebery’s bedroom in his house at Epsom, Surrey. Tn a poll taken by a musieal magazine “Abide With Ale” proved to lie America’s favourite hymn. The names of great Yarmouth bailiffs prior to 13011 are to be carved on the walls of the 1 own ITall. A. Surrey Territorial. F. Collins, walked the 150 miles from King’s Cross to the camp at Arundel Park and hack. In connection with the breeding of sponges, six of the larvae which form the different kinds have been identified. England’s fastest train is the 3.45 p.m. from Swindon -to Paddington, which docs the 11 .) miles in seventy-five niinul os. Some photographs of the moon in natural colour were shown at a recent meeting of the British Astronomical Association. London’s meat ration, according to what passes through her markets is about 2|lb. per head of the population every week. Since Ihc opening of Wembley Exhibition more than 700,606 piec<s of crockery have been broken accident 1 v in the restaurants. Billingsgate, London's famous 'ish market, covers 30.000 ft. ol j.-ior space, while 182,0(10 tons ol ti.'-li were handled there last year. St. George’s Hall. Liverpool, regarded as Hie finest example of Creek .vhiteeture in England, was designed by a young architect of 23. "

In the cry})l chapel under the House of Commons in London is (.reserved an altar cloth reputed to have been made by Queen Elizabeth.

The heart of a patient in Charing Cross continued to beat for four and a half hours after she had stopped breathing.

Five local children exhibited 4352 dead white butterflies —known as cabbage pests —in a competition at the annual show at Earneombe. (Surrey). Mr. C. V. Hart won the man-a-gainst horse six-days’ endurance race at the Crystal Palace by more Ilian 74 miles, the horse being wiflid rawn.

The average of Church of England clergymen is stated to lie nearly 60; there tire about 2500 fewer clergymen than there were in 1013. The Duke of Portland has given £I,OOO toward a parsonage for the new mining village of Clipstone, near Mansfield. A start is being made in draining the Wash, the li’.st experiment, covering an area t .’ 400 acres of Crown property. The men and women of Lapland dress exactly alike —in tunics, leather 'breeches, wrinkled stockings, and pointed shoes. Poor relief in England and Wales (hiring the year ended March 31, .1022, cost 22/33 for every person in the country.

Gloves do not appear to lmve been worn in England Before the eleventh century, when they were imported from Germany.

Visitors to London from the North of England say that the beer sold in the metropolis is stronger than they get at home.

For the first six months this year Canada exported 32,179 head of cattle to Great Britain and 40,953 to the United States. The XVI. century Castle Inn, a favourite resort of Dick Turpin, at Smallberry Green, Isleworlh, is to be converted into offices. The cost of wages per ton of coal in Britain is stated to he, roughly, 12/-; the total cost of production is about 18/- at the pit head.