NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2819, 4 December 1924, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

It takes 100 livers to yield one gallon of cod-liver oil. The first scientific study of rubber was carried out by a Frenchman in 1730. Mr .John Davies, a Welsh village postman, whose age is 89, covers 15 miles a day. Telephone girls in Berlin are to he trained in deep-breathing and voice production. .Jewel-set watches, used instead of buckles to ornament shoes, are a fashion from Paris. An eagle can live twenty days without food, while a condor can similarly exist for forty days. About 1,200 trains pass in and out of Liverpool St. Station, London in 24 hours. Pushing perambulators on the pavement is an offence against the law .in London, although prosecutions seldom occur. Mr John Coleman, of Sellston, Nottinghamshire, has been a member of the parish church choir for (10 years. Insurance against wet weather saved the Derby County Cricket Club a loss of £SOO- in connection with six matches last season. Ever since their marriage, 70 years ago, an old couple have lived in the same c oft age at Lacey Green, a village outside Princes Kisboro. Monoplanes fitted with 12 engines each and airships carrying 120 passengers at a time are a suggested development in commercial (lying. The sun is only one among a vast number of stars, estimated to number anything between seventyfive millions and one thousand millions. From two seeds which cost him a penny, Mr R. H. Smith, of North Finchley, has grown 41 marrows, \*. ith an aggregate weight of 31911). Brilain’s smallest house is at Conway Quay, North Wales: it has a frontage of (Hit., is 10ft. 2irt. high, and measures Bft. 4i ll . from front to hack. Cooking 'classes at a London Polytechnic, specially designed for men and women living alone, are ;.loving more popular among male -indents. In the Lancashire Poultry Federation’s recent egg-laying competition a bird in the large l breeders' s ction was credited with 283 eggs ill 48 weeks.