NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2923, 15 August 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Historic bank notes to the number of 27,000 have been collected by a London business man. They include notes issued in China GOO years ago and a whole series of forged Bank of England bank notes.

The birth-rate in Hartlepool is 01 per cent, greater than that of England and Wales as a whole, while Ihe hii'ih-rale for Birmingham last 19.2 per thousand, is the lowest ever recorded for that city.

A law twelve hundred years old, which stated that if a man commitled a theft, and bis wife was with him, she should go free, as “she was quoted in a recent. British was piloted in a recent British case.

Up io the end ol' November last year, tree grant homestead entries recorded in the four Western Canadian provinces were as follow: Manitoba, 530; Saskatchewan, 1(503; Alberta, 1108; British Columbia, 20!); a total of 3540, compared with 3304 during; the corresponding period of 1923. The 1924 entries represent 500.400 acres. One of the earliest-known vanity bags has been discovered in the ruins of the ancient colony of 01bia, which nourished in the lifth century. Professor Zufl'er, searching some tombs, recovered a small bag of linen, which contained the remains of a metal mirror as well as a stick of lip rouge and a pencil for darkening the eyebrows. Americans are the greatest meateaters, with an average per capita consumption of .175 pounds a year, much the largest part being beef. The English, though known as beef-eaters, average only 110 pounds of meat. The French eat only half as much as the English, olid the consumption is still less in Germany, Austria and Italy. St. Margaret's Church. Westminister, possesses a remarkable to-bacco-box made of horn. Henry Mon eh bought it in 1733 for tourponce, and presented it to the Society of Overseers. In 1720 they put a silver rim on the lid in memory of the donor. Further rims and additions were made later, and tinally the box became so enlarged that it stood over two feet high.