NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2913, 23 July 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Bronze instruments were used by man long before he realised they were alloys. The Homans were skilled metallurgists and were the first to prepare east iron.

If is stated that a British lirm aone makes a hundred million matches a year, which involves the eating down of almost a small forest o obtain (he neeessarv wood.

A. mourns is one who carps at everybody and everything. The word is tin l name of the sleepy god who was always carping and criticising and railing at the other gods.

The goldfish Ernest which lived in the Savoy Hotel fountain is dead. Cigar ash is supposed to have been the cause of it. He acquired fame by playing leapfrog over the floating corks.

A British aeroplane recently flew to Switzerland with one and a-half lons of gold, and returned to London the same day. The journey of well over 1,000 miles took about 13 hours

A new hotel close to Niagara Falls will broadcast the roar of the falls every evening at 7 o’clock, and facilities will he offered for honeymoon couples to broadcast their greetings to friends and relatives at home.

The power of emitting light is possessed by some sharks of the .amily Spinacidae, to which the ■Dimiion spiny dog-fish belongs. The ight has a greenish, phosphorescent ippearance, and lasts for some lours after death.

It is said that 10 per cent more, horses are working on the English streets now than a year ago. The reason is that for short journeys with frequent stoppages, the horse is said to be cheaper than a motor

van. Two little schools are conducted in the Tower of London. One is for pupils from five to eight years old, die other is for older, children. The pupils- are the children of soldiers garrisoned at the Tower and of the warders. Investigations at the Siemens electric works in Germany show that twins are more frequently left-han-ded Ilian the single born. Fifteen per cent of the twins examined were left handed, compared with seven per cent of the others.