NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2857, 12 March 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Il cost Paddington (London) Council C 35 to cat Hi 12.3 rats. Mongolia has adopted (he European calendar as from January 1. A silver nugget, the largest ever mined *in British Columbia, weighs 3(i ounces. Britain's coal output for the week ended December 20, was 5,500,500 tons. The London ambulance service attended about 50 cases due to fog on a recent day. Last year was the wettest year on record in Britain, the nearest to it being 1.003. Eggs in France cannot be sold as •‘I resli" if they have been in cold storage. In a population of 1,378,300 ill Peiu, on!;, 531- people were sent to piison in 1023. The King's New Year gift to the Chapel Koval, St. James', was a new organ. Worn copper coins worth .C(i(>,000 were withdrawn from circulation last year in Britain. Of .1.31) delinquents pul <m probation in North Essex last year only JO were “failures." Of the 200 million acres of laud cullivaled in India, over 50 million ai res are irrigated. The Pope’s daily average of idlers is 22,000, and these arc d. all with by 25 secretaries. There are 300 varieties of water beetles lo be found in the freshwater lakes and rivers of Britain. Two motor-cyclists have crossed llie desert from Cairo lo Siwa and back (.1200 miles) in .14 days. The publishing linn of Horace Marshall lias seven men on ils staff who have been with the linn half a century. (;)n one day rcccnlly snow and frost, were reported from Bagdad and unprecedented wanulli from Siberia. War widows who have married again form 30 per cent, of the lolai who were in receipt of pensions in Britain. Among the children lel'l al. Iho day nursery at the Wembley Exhibition arc three who have never la en claimed. A garage near Bishop-Auckland, England, was burned out through a lady throwing a burning glove on llu floor. The coal deposits of Canada are believed to comprise about oneseventh of the known supplies of liic whole world. In six months Christ (jhttreh, St. Albans, EnglaiYd, children collected 1 1,(414 farthings for the restoration fund.

Specially for oiic-nrtucd pianists a eoucerl piece for the piano, left, hand only, has just been composed by Richard Strauss.

Thy United States is now producing 500 million pounds oi' marearoni a. year, whereas liflv years ago the industry was unknown. The lii’st ha by born this year in Washington was (lie lucky recipient of: many gills, provided by the New Year’s Baby Association. When Mr Tom Craig, a Scottish (ish merchant, cut open a codlish recently, he found in its stomach a (day pipe tilled with tobacco. For the lirst six hours of this war the London Eire Brigade received no calls. 'Phis has only happened once before, at the dawn of 1018. If Canada were ns densely populated its the United Stales, she would have over 100 millions of inhabitants, instead of !),()()(),000 as at present. The 155,000,000 tickets collected on the 7000 miles of the London and North Eastern Railway last: year would, placed end on end, cover 531 miles. At the village of Brand Malleray, near Bourges, France, a hunted wild boar dashed into a bouse and was killed in a bedroom where there was an invalid. Childless marriages ended in the British Divorce Court in 1023 formed lltiti of the 2831 eases. The total number, of marriages in Unit year was 202,408. Dictionaries may only he borrowed for live minutes tit a time in I lie Los Angeles public library, owing t’o the demand for them among crossword puzzle enthusiasts. The world’s largest gits engine is being erected for the Staveley Iron Company in Derbyshire. It was made at Liege, in Belgium, and the crankshaft weighs 80 tons. A - transparent umbrella, which permits the user to see where she is going, and scissors with interchangeable blades, are Iwo novel inventions recently patented b\ women. An ordinary pipe smokes out inside 18 minutes, but under test conditions a pipe filled with onc-eigth of an ounce of tobacco lias been made to last for 111 minutes. Mr. Francis W.ood, 80, an exColdstream Guardsman, who walked from Bath to Croydon, crossed by aeroplane lo Baris, whence he set out for a tour of the battlefields. An American statistician states that while a married man at twenty four lias live per cent, less properly than the average- bachelor, at forty-eight he has 20 per cent, more. The London County Council Education . Committee will permit wireloss in edement ary schools, and, where il is used for strictly educational purposes, will pay for the license. , ' What is claimed as the worlds giealest pipe organ is being installed ill a new enmerl theatre in Davenport. lowa. It is lo have (1737 pipes, which would sln leh a distance of live miles. Seventy-horse-power electric motor- will |„. used to pump l he air pressure, and the six keyboards will have allor / stop-'. *\\ spoon-led »*ro\v<l, i*o\\ Mr W. R. Hayward, a director of the Wellington Exhibition, clmrnelerised the Wellington people, when speaking at a conference in Ashburton regarding the Dunedin Exhibition. Mr Hayward said that m alj his travels he had not come aeross a place where such lack ol enthusiasm prevailed as m Wellington, the people of which, in his opinion, wauled the Government to do everything for them.