NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2949, 15 October 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A sudden spell of cold weather after a heat wave may have the effect of causing gas leakages, owing to the contraction of the pipes.

Patent leather shoes which shine with a mother-of-pearl effect are being introduced for men to wear. They cost nearly £4 a pair. According to a recruiting return, 50,000' men out of 80,000 'candidates were rejected in Britain in 1923 as below the military standard.

Twenty conventions, with an estimated atendance of over 5000 were booked at Montreal for the months of August, September and October. The water supply of 100,000 people in the Rhymnoy Valley, South Wlales, is seriously affected by drought. One of the reservoirs has dried up. Five bullocks sheltering in Grendor Spinney, Wellingborough, and poultry at Wlollaston Hall, Northamptonshire, were killed by lightning recently. 4

In America it is becoming quite a usual thing for a wealthy man to devote at least a" portion of his riches to the development of public education.

A bite from a gnat during Cowes Week is said to have caused the death of Lieut.-Commander Jeffrey K. Laughton, of the Royal ya'eht Victoria and Albert.

Boot soles are now said to indicate character. If they are worn levelly all over it shows an even temper, while wear on the inside is a sign of listlessness. Fresh air, cooled in summer and warmled in winter, is pumped through the latest vessel to run across the English Channel. This is a shipbuilding novelty.

West Hartlepool hairdressers state that they are finding it more profitable to go in for “bobbing and shingling” girls at. Is a time than' haircuts for men and boys at fid each. v

A hundred and fifty weddings were celebrated in Preston on August 8, on the occasion of the annu-

al holiays, and the Co-operative Savings Bank disbursed £95,000 of savings.

A seal brought from the seaside, has died in captivity in a lake at Nosingham. It lived only a few weeks. Death is attributed either to loneliness or to eating too many buns.

Three brothers, whose ages total 237 years, recently held a reunion. They are George Dilly, aged 87; Henry, aged 7G; and Alfred, aged 74. All are gardeners and natives of Skillinglon, Lincolnshire.

The Land Settlement Board in Alberta, Canada, estimates that sinc-e the first of the year, 1000 persons from the British Isles have settled in that province, about 200 families, averaging five members each. Rabbi Leon Harrison, head of the Temple Israel of St. Louis, returned recently from a GOO-mile bicycle tour of France, Spain and Italy. He is GO years old. He said he rode eight hours daily for seven weeks. While watching a cricket practice prior to a match at Leyton Cricket Ground a Mrs. Skelton was struck in the face with a ball. She fell to the ground and was carried to the pavilion where medical aid was rendered.

A baby was found by a dustman in an ashbin in the Hillhead district of Glasgow, recently. He is now being taken care of in the Maternity Hospital. The parents have not been traced.

- New Kent Road is, according to Colonel Harry Day, M.P. for Central Southwark, the most dangerous traffic thoroughfare in London. It is very long, and has only two or three island refuges to help pedestrians to cross the stream of traffic.

When the tide recedes along the coast of various parts of Japan the beaches are dotted with people gathering seaweed and carrying it to drying racks of bamboo. After drying it is baled and shipped. The seaweed usually is boiled and eaten with rice.

A vast new forest is being laid out pi East Anglia. When completed it will stretch for 1(5 miles in an unbroken line through Norfolk and Suffolk over what was formerly derelict land.

King George and Queen Mary are motoring through London at night their car has a pewerful blue light shinning from the canopy over the chauffeur’s seat. The King's ears also have no number. Because it is contrary to the religious principles of the wife of a labourer to refrain from whistling or singing, she has had to leave rooms that she was occupying in Wcstcliff.

Two students'who left their homes in England last year with £10"for a sightseeing trip round the world have l'eturned home with £1 12s between them after travelling 53,000 miles.

Prospective British emigrants of the right type who wish to go to Australia will be able to go through a course of training at the college being established in Norfolk. The fees, etc., for a six-months’ course amount to £175.

Fifty oxen, seventy lambs, two hundred sheep, and sometimes as much as ten thousand head of game, seventy thousand eggs, three hundred barrels of flour, and fifteen thousand pounds of fish are. some of the items in the stores of a Cunard liner.

Inhabitants of the United States consume 1,000,000,000 quarts of ice-cream each _year, but a fifth of the quantity is air, or air-holes, for which somebody pays £13,200,000, according to the New Jersey Department of Weights and Measures. The amount of pressure applied by a pianist to the keys in one

minute is often anything ujr to a ton and a half. In that same minute the eye has to read about one thousand five hundred signs, and the fingers make about two thousand movements.

Motion pictures of a windmill in action are said to have been projected, with the aid of radio, on a screen five miles away. The inventor, Mr. Francis Jenkins, predicts that his apparatus will be sufficiently refined in a year’s time to make wireless motion pictures practical for commercial use. There are living in Elginshire four sisters whose aggregate ages total 367 years. Young is aged 96; Mrs. Eliza Young, 94; Mrs Porter, 93; and Mrs. Legge, 84. Mrs Eliza Young has had 11 children, and there are over 100 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchil-dren, an two great-great-grand-children. There was a total of 177,815 experiments under licenses on living animals in Britain during 1924, an increase of 43,032 over the previous year. The number of experiments performed without anaesthetics was 168,653, but they were mostly innoculations or feeding experiments. The returns show that during 1924, 8083 experiments were performed in the course of cancer investigations. Count Karolyi, who was the first President of the Hungarian Republic, and whose vast property has been confiscated, met on an Atlantic liner, while returning from the United States recently, a wealthy Chicago meat packer, who has engaged the Count as secretary for his firm’s branch in Paris. Karolyi will be assisted in his new position by his wife, the patrician propagandist.