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NEWS IN BRIEF.

A jelly-fish weighing lib. contains over 15oz. of water. It is estimated that there are 30,000 million million tons of salt in the sea.

A pear tree at Liddington, Bedfordshire, yielded three crops during Ihe past season. - Ten thousand tons of fuel oil are consumed on one round trip by the Atlantic liner Leviathan. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, can accommodate 32000 worshippers and St. Peter’s, Rome, 54,000. It is estimated that the solar energy received on the earth’s surface amounts to 1,500,000 h.p. per square mile. .After three years a Surbiton black Persian cat returned to its old home at Kinston while its new owners were on holidav.

A patent lias been granted for a match provided with two heads; a safety head at one end and an ordinary one at the other. With a modern X-ray lube a

radiograph of a human heart has been taken with an exposure of one-thousandth of a second. It is estimated that 3500 years ago Egyptian carpenters possessed practically every tool used by modern members of the craft. For the first month in its history the town of Quarry Bank, Staffordshire, with a population of 0000, had not a death in September. A portable camera, weighing only 301 h„ will detect hidden treasure or smuggled goods in brick walls or inside trunks. Lovebirds, once so popular for “fortune-telling,” are becoming rare in London. Fifty years ago they were a common sight in-the streets. Taxicabs in London are said to he three years behind those of New York in comfort. The American cabs are even heated in cold weather.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2830, 6 January 1925, Page 4

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268

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2830, 6 January 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2830, 6 January 1925, Page 4

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