NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2994, 4 February 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Blind ex-soldiers who have been through St. Dunstan’s are now working as sales manager, correspondence manager, chartered accountant, coal merchant, barrister, and hotel proprietor. Wlithin the next ten years the motor cars in Britain are expected by Sir Henry P. Maybury, DirectorGeneral of Roads, to increase till there will be one car to every twenty of the population. The food value of dried and evaporated .milk is quite different from that of fresh cows’ milk. The dried milk appears to approach fresh milk more nearly in quality than does the evaporated. Chloroform was discovered simultaneously by Eugene Souberian, a Frenchman, and Baron Liebig, a German, in 1831. It was first used as an anaesthetic in 1848. An electrical safety device, which not only warns a train driver of an obstruction ahead, but automatically pulls the train up if the driver is incapacitated from any cause, has been invented in America. A girl in Berlin who was jilted by her fiance has been compelled by the courts to pay him damages because when he answered her adver-' tisement in a matrimonial news- ■ paper, she enclosed, as her own photograph, that of the Queen of Rumania. Dr. Fuller had such a wonderful ; memory that he could repeat 500 unconnected words after twice hearing them, and recite the whole of the signs in the principal tlior- ] oughfares of London after once passing through and back again. To qualify for membership of the ] Caterpillar Club, men must have been forced to leap with parachutes from balloons, dirigibles, or aeroplanes as a last resort. As jumps - for mere pleasure or thrills do not count, there are at present only ten members. , It is expected that nearly 70,- J 000 tons of sugar will be manufactured in Great Britain this year, compared with 26,000 tons last year. The world production in 1924 was about 23 million tons, and Great Britain’s annual consumption is about 1£ million tons. An Englishman, living in the United States, has sent to the Chancel-* lor of the Exchequer, bonds to the value of £l,lOO as a contribution j ] toward the reduction of the British debt to the United States. This gift bears the whole weight of the debt repayment for twelve minutes. Last April the Rev. J. A. Sheal, at the age of seventy-two, travelled on a push bicycle from Northop, in Flintshire, to Caledonian Road, London, a distance of 198 miles, in 1 one day. He has performed the feat a second- time. He left Northop at 2.30 a.m. and arrived at Caledonian Road at 11 p.ni.