NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2981, 31 December 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Halllness may lie duo in Ikkl teeth, :i<-<- I >c< 1 iiit;- In a ni‘\v medical theory. Chess is boilin. taught (o (ho bo.v pupils in many English secondary schools. . young fox ami Iho dog |hit L caught il cal from'lhc same dish lit- i*l \ iii.nu h. i mbrella handles are now being made lo hold cigarol (os llms serving also as a smoker's companion. A man who a I (he Marylebone County Court, said iha I lie was a builder, gave his name a Brickwork. Transport, animals employed in the Great War numbered about 204,000 in 1014 and 827,5000 in 1018. .Marked and liberated in Start I»av a. crab has been caught oil' Land’s End, 00 niilies from its slai I ing'-poini. Thirty sovereigns in hag's have been found hi a furniture removal van in England and no one has claimed them. During (he daytime, 1 lie city of London proper has a population of 43(1.7.15, of which number 13,700 remain at nig hl. Laud bigger in area than Engj'lami and Ireland combined has now been given free lo solders by Iho Canadian Governmeni. Eyeglasses enable aboi.il (iO per coni, of business and professional men continue working after middleage Inis been reached. In the. London area (here are now about ■!()(!,Oill) telephones. Now subscribers arc being enrolled at the rate of about 000 per week. Bowler lulls have, become very popular in Turkey, now Hint 1 lie old ualional headgear of (hat country, the fez, is being abandoned. Commercial travellers in some purls of California have adopted the plan of using homing pigeons for rushing orders lo (heir headquarters. The largest sturgeon ever landed at Lowestoft was sold recently for .t’ls. I| measured lift. Tin. and weighed a quarter of a ion. The recent British Army manoeuvres are said to have proved that there is more use lor cavalry, instead of less, under modern condit ions, of warfare. Because he "bobbed'’ the hair of a young girl without her parents’ consent, a hairdresser of Dijon. ■ Frame, has been sued for damages by her father. Mol bulbs, night clothes, single beds, and bed clothing must lie pro- 1 vided, by order of the British .Ministry of Health, in till' casual wards of workhouses. Borneo bus many strange tribes, 1 among them the Likils, who follow the trails of wild pigs and live upon the roots which these animals 1 grab out of [lie ground. Saxon daggers, and other relies, discovered at Luton in the making of roads, have been idenlilied bv - the British Museum authorites as over 1400 years old.