NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2933, 8 September 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Southend is to have a £BSOO mo-tor-life-boat.

The earliest corn harvest known in Cheshire opened on July 20. Five hundred pilgrims recently left Manchester and Colne for Lourdes.

The United tSates produced 81,000,000,000 cigarettes last year. Over 39,570 London County Council school chldiren were taught to swim last season.

The combined ages of four Bromley, Kent, residents who died recently totalled 329 years. The first steam tramway in England, between Wantage, Berkshire, station and the town, is to be scrapped. Hot air forced into hayricks by means of a newly-invented machine is claimed to dry the hay in twelve hours.

Dorothy Pearl Picard, aged 5, travelling alone from Montreal recently, arrived at Plymouth on the Cunard liner Ascania.

Mrs Mary Summers, of Hampton Lovett, Worcestershire, who has died, aged 91, lived in the same house for 71 years.

Tiny ukuleles are being introduced as handles for parasols in England this summer. More than 100 tons of wood are consumed in the world daily in the form of matches.

Of the 6,397 employees of the London County Council, 3345, or 5.93 per cent., are ex-Service men. Short faces with eyes far apart are said to be the characteristic type of people with musical talent. Henry VIII. was the first man to lay down hard tennis courts in Europe, according to one authority.

Pictures of bullets fired from revolvers have been taken in America by means of a special electrical apparatus. Children in Glasgow may travel any distance on a tramcar for one penny. Some of the routes extend up to 25 miles. A newly-born calf was carried away off a Buckingham farm by a vixen, who took it to her litter of cubs in a covert.

The British railways bring into London every day 500,000 tons of meat, the same quantity of fish, and 13,0001000 tons of farm produce.

Bacon, cheese and fish were obtainable for a Id a lb. 50 years ago, according to the parish records of Heavitree, now part of Exeter. Lucky bone brooches from the heads of tigers shot by the bridegroom were worn by bridesmaids at a recent wedding at Wonersh, Surrey.

Stamps estimated as worth £lO,000 were recently found in an attic of a Mayfair mansion. When originally purchased they cost about £2O in all.

Testing golf-balls, detecting “fake” gems, and finding flaws in wood and metal are among the lesser known uses to which X-rays can be put. It has been decided by the Berlin Appeal Court that when an opera is broadcasted the singers are entitled to a ten per cent, increase of salary.

Coins for other countries than Britain are made at the British Mint. Orders from Poland, Egypt, Russia and Lithuania have been executed recently.

Wild horses, which roam the ranches of Western America, in such numbers that they are nuisances, are now being hunted down and used for fattening hogs. Out of 274 air accidents which happened between April 1 last year and May 31 of this year, 142 were due to errors of judgement on the part of the pilots. Several residents at Godaiming, Surrey, state that they have heard a cuckoo with three distinct notes instead of two.

In most of the older hotels all tips given by visitors are divided every month among the servants according to their positions . A proposal to exempt master bakers from the ban on night baking has been rejected by a commit-

tee of the International Labour Office.

A pair of swans was lately rearing a brood of eight cygnets —an unusually large family—on the Long Pond in Hampton Court Park. “Five years hence I shall be able to fly to New York in a few hour.” said Mr. Fokker, the Dutch builder

It was stated at a Bethnal Green inquest on Jessie Sadie Doughty, who killed herself with a bootlace, that her father and two other members of the family had committed suicide.