NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2923, 15 August 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Our shillings now contain silver to the value of about lj{d. One person out of every 14 of Canada’s population now owns a motor-ear. A small corner shop in Regent street, London, is let at a rental of .14500 a. year. School children in East 11am received 400 free pairs of boots in a recent 12 months. Natives of Papua are, in most cases, very superstitious, and go iii fear of the witch-doctors. Every street in Paris has been visited on foot by an American Army officer and bis daughter, aged 17.

In 1912, Britain exported nearly ,40,000,000 tons of coal; litis droptied to 25,000,000 tons hist year.

About 100 tribes of Indians are supposed to have become extinct since Columbus discovered America.

Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, is hss than a century old, although il now has a population of nearly 150,000.

Football pilches are to be let next season in Richmond Park at £ls each, and in Richmond Park a! £5 each.

In. addition to King George the list of Royal yachtsmen includes the monarchs of Spain, Italy, Denmark and Persia.

A woman centenarian, aged 195, has recently crossed the Atlantic from America on her way to her home ia Beirut.

Passenger liners crossing the Atlantic have winter routes that differ sometimes several hundred miles from their summer route. The British Museum library eontains about 4,000,009 volumes. Thirty employees are constantly engaged in dusting them. Whale steaks, seaweed jelly and shark" tins were among the delicacies served at Paris Zoological Society luncheon recently. On the authority of a famous dancing teacher, waltz, lancers, polka, and other “old-fashioned” dances are returning to favour. Weighing only 31b., a ha by in a Bath hospital was placed a! once in an incubator and fed each hour with a teaspoonful of whey. Descendants ranging from sons and daughters, and numbering 191 in nil, have been left by an Illinois woman who recently died at the age of 90.

A swimmer was recently in tha water off Lcigh-on-Sen when a porpoise rose suddenly beneath him and carried him for a few yards before diving again.

(.round rents in the West End of London have risen enormously as leases fell in. One lirm, up t<> last year, were paying £27 10s: they are now paying £2OOO. Fifteen old Etonians are in the ptesent British Government. This famous school is represented in the House of Commons by 102 M.P.’s who were educated at Eton.

Four people, two of them children have been living in a disussed lime kiln in Devonshire. The kin was open to the weather and the children slept on beds of damp straw. Discharged torpedoes, worth about £ISOO apiece, which “escape” during practice, are well worth finding, as the Admiralty pays a reward of £lO each for their recovery.

German gas mautles are arriving' in Britain at 24s a gross; tin; Germans have machinery which enables 750 people to do the work which formerly called for 1000 “hands. •’ Dover's historic building', Maison Dieu Hall, dates back over seven centuries. It was built in 1203 as a rentliou.se Lor pilgrims on thenway to Canterbury from the Continent.

American heiress nowadays receive an elaborate “linishing” education. Eleven of them have recently paid a visit to Europe on a tour which cost their parents £IOOO a head. Settlers in Ontario are to be assisted in buying dairy cattle. The Ontarian Government will advance three-quarters of the purchase price at live per cent.; the settlers will repay this by instalments.