NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2961, 12 November 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Cheques and postal-orders are frequently found among the waste paper removed by the Salvation Army from London offices. Travellers on London’s Underground, including tubes, buses and trams, during the August Bank Holiday week-end, totalled 15,788,000. Wlireless has been laid on from a ‘ central receiver to every flat in War ■ Seal Mansions, the colony for disf a bled ex-service men in Fulham, London. After fasting for 33 days,, a young American scientist says that after the third week he lost interest in everything except getting some food to eat. A Strcatham man who lost his fox-terrier dt Brighton was amazed to find the dog on his doorstep the next morning. It had run 45 miles during the night. Photographs have been taken by means of a solid steel ball in place of an ordinary lens. The light goes round, instead of through, this nov- j el metal lens. ! About the size of a starling, yet able to run so swiftly that they can race a horse, three tiny birds recently arrived at the London Zoo from South Africa. England’s famous -80110013 are long-lived. Westeminster existed in 1339, and Winchester in 1373; Eton was founded in 1440, Rugby in 15G7, and Harrow in 1571. During the August bank holiday week-end the London underground services carried nearly 16,000,000 people, equal to the populations of Holland and Belgium together. Seventeen years’ labour on the part of a Spanish peasant has resulted in his acquiring a house carved out of solid rock. It possesses balcony, garret, and cellar. When the Universal Esperanto Congress met at Geneva lately a service in Esperanto was held in the Cathedral, and a woman preached a sermon in Esperanto from Calvin’s pulpit. A mouse running across the cables at a power station is believed to have set up a short circuit which caused a hundred factories in Hammersmith to shut down for some hours. . No moneylenders will lie allowed to hold official posts in the new Jewish Synagogue soon to be opened in St. John’s Wood Road, London. It is the largest synagogue in Great Britain. Nottingham has just taken possession of Woollation Hall, the historic mansion which was begun in the year of the Spanish Armada, and has a park twice as big as Hyde Park. Alderman W. Singleton, J.P., of Manselield, England, who is chairman of a committee which eontrolls about 2000 allotment gardens in the town, has been a gardener 65 years. Barking dogs which become a nuisance ean now be “cured” by having their barks removed, as a result of experiments carried out . by the American Veterinary Medical Association. A mystery box, presented to the Rev. Felix Wilkinson on leaving Mansfield to be rector of Ordsall, Nottinghamshire, contained a set of large saucepans and other kitchen things.