NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2961, 12 November 1925, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Red Indian population of 1 the United tSates is increasing. A woman died at Llanelly recently after living seventy years in the same house. During the year ended March 31 about 135,000 houses were erected in Britain. A great Western train covered the 226 miles between Plymouth and Paddington in 242 minutes. The boy scouts of Bulgaria, where the movement is just a year old, have been holding the first jamboree. A Lincoln, England, signalman, seeing a boy drowning in the Brayford Pool, left his box, plunged in, and rescued him. Chimpanzees under observation show a sense of humour, enjoy a joke, exhibit affection, and even show obedience. Brighton’s unemployed early in August numbered 1700, as compared with 30,000 iu the same month two year's ago. A fruit called the veitchberry, something between the blackberry and the raspberry, has been exhibited in London. “There is no standard pronunciation of English because the language is constantly changing.” said an expert recently. Two taxi-cabs were needed to take to the British Foreign Ollice a petition against'war signed by half-a-million people. A toy balloon which was picked up lately at Oundle, in Northamptonshire, was found to have come from Wimereux, in France. There are twenty stars which are said to be of the first magnitude, because they are the twenty brightest stars in the heavens. The Baltic is the shallowest sea, only 43 yards in average depth. Next conies the Adriatic, with an average of 45 yards depth. When a bucket was lowered into a disused coal pit a Alio a collie dog, which had fallen in, jumped into it and was drawn to safety. Hearing a noise in his bedroom, a man named Swann, at Leavenheath, in Suffolk, discovered that a cygnet had made its home in his bed. An angry bull charged a aeroplane landing in a field in Belgium, the machine being so badly damaged that if c.ould not continue' its flight.