NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2919, 6 August 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Actors cn'iplovofl a I Oslo theatres may not' work for wireless broadcasting companies, nor will the theatre managements allow the broadcasting of performances. The largest slice]) station in the world is at Tierra del Fnogo. the most southern part of South America. One company shears more than 2,500,000 sheep every year. Colours have different effects upon human beings. Red and orange are stimulating, yellow is cheering, green neutral, purple subduing, and violet depressing. Canada has twenty-three varieties of fur-bearing animals. Specimens of all these skins are shown in the Canadian Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition. A portrait; of Edward Grimston, Envoy from Henry VI. to the. Court of Burgundy, painted by Petrus Christas, has been placed on exhibition at the National Gallery. Natural gas was used centuries ago by the Chinese, but the first to make and use coal gas for lighting was William .Murdock, who, in 17.U2, lighted his house in Cornwall. At least a quarter of a million square miles of the most fertile land in East Africa was unproductive because of the tsetse fly. —Mr. Ormesby Gore, M.P., at Royal Colonial Institute. Men eat, sleep, and slack too much, breathe too little, don’t drink sufficient water, and think too little. This is the scathing criticism of a doctor who lectured recently in London. Mr. John Maedougall, the international footballer, who played for Vale of Leven when they won the Scottish thrice in succession in the late seventies, has died suddenly at Forestville, Renton (Scotland). ‘Tie wrote only music and no jazz,” said the solicitor in applying for a discharge from bankruptcy on behalf of Edward Frank Lambert, composer, at Wandsworth County Court. The discharge was granted. An earthquake recently repaired a building instead of destroying it. The Victoria Museum, in Ottawa, was developing serious cracks due to “settling" when an earthquake shook tilings up and the building is now as sound as ever it was.

Six aeroplanes have been engaged to take birds' eye views of. London with the object of making a new kind of map to show the growth and spread of the capital. The pictures are expected to he completed in another month or so.

Woollen woodland scenes, ilannel dowers and cream serge wallpaper are some of the “properties” the Century Thea tre, Not ting Hill, is compelled to use. Having no five curtain, the authorities have ordered that (he thealre shall use such liftings as a live preventive. A submarine boat is said to have been invented about .1.5/H, and one is believed to have been tried in the Thames early in the seventeenth century. Robert; Fulton ma.de experiments in Napoleons time, bill it was Nordenfelt’s submarine, constructed at. Stockholm in 1883, from which the modern submarine developed. An Englishman living at a distance from his work wanted a bicycle, and saw possibilities in a hedge near his home. In a short time he had completed a. bicycle built entirely of hedge sticks. The parts of the frame are arranged like those of an ordinary bicycle, and a crotclied stick serves as the fork for the wheels. That part, of Edinburgh Castle known as King David’s Tower, which has for years been open to special visitors, is soon to he free for the public. Cp till about ten years ago the existence of this tower was only guessed at. Explorafons have resulted in discovering i 1 a dnitdates ,-•> hiillffi

iiiid it dates from the 1-ttli centurv