NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2892, 4 June 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

It is estimated that 120,000,000 lisli live in every square mile of the ocean. Baldness is stated to he increasing- among civilised people who live in cities. A gardener digging at i Loughborough unearthed a shilling dated 157-1, hearing live lions.

Tlijere are now over 1,2-10,000 British motor-vehicles, paying over .015,000,000 a year in taxes. Mining operations, now use over three-quarters of the explosives made in the United Slates. Wireless receiving licenses to the mimher of about 1,200,000 are at present in force in Britain. Tim average length of life in the United States is now s(i years, compared with 41 years in 1870. Crocodiles, like ostriches, swallow pebbles and small stones for the purpose of grinding their food. Latest reports indicate that there is now more American than British capital invested in Canada. The sound of a hell which can he heard 45,000 ft. through water can he heard through air only 450 ft. 'i'he men of the United States coastguard service rescued 2642 people from positions of peril Inst year. New petrol-driven locomotives capable of a speed of. 40 miles an hour are being tested on Belgium railways. Solvers of cross-word puzzles are now barred from using the famous library at the British Museum, London. The combined ages of a company of aged people who met at an English lea party not long ago totalled 47,025 years. While trying to save her dog. Mrs Staite, of Tewkesbury, was knocked down by a fatally injured. A brewery has been presented to the vicar and wardens of St. John’s, Pontypridd, for conversion into a church. Women who lake up appoint11units as teachers in the Essex ele mcnlary schools must undertake to resign on marriage. It is estimated that there are nearly a million blind people in India, and not one ofheienl factory for Braille hooks.