NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2913, 23 July 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Only 21,222 manservants were employed in London last year. A umn mimed Innocent has been found guilty on a charge at Tottenham. The public libraries of England circulate nearly 00,000,000 books a .year. The reindeer industry in Alaska is now estimated to be worth more ihan the United States paid to Russia for the whole country. Mr Abraham Sprigg, postman, of Easton, near Bristol, who has retired, inis walked during his 42 years' service over 100,000 miles. An English lever watch, lost in u ploughed held over a year ago and recently found, started to go as soon as it was wound up. The Earl of Essex was lined 2/(1 at Greenwich lately for driving a motor car, ihe back plate of which was obscured by mud. Baying only 4/0 a week for the house, a woman was said at Darlington County Court, to he receiving 10/- a week from suh-tenants. Jn the seventeenth century Billingsgate Market was leased for £9O a year. Last year the traders in the market paid £30,500 in rents. A Jish of the Nile, known to scientists as Synodontis batensoda, habitually swims in an inverted position. Tile reason for this is not understood. The oldest map of the heavens is in the .National Library at Paris. It was made by the Chinese about 000 B.C. and denotes the positions of 1,400 star's. To celebrate their marriage jubilee, and in memory of their son, Mr and Mrs William lvuy, of Blackburn, have presented £I,OOO to local charities. Ten million pounds is to be spent on a map of the United States, so large that it will disclose “every work of man in its eract relation to everything else.” Engineers have just finished boring a fifteen foot hole for nearly 11 miles through the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. The work has taken live years.