NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3020, 8 April 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

During a year a mole eats 20,0U0 earthworms.

There are honey bees in India which build combs 13ft. high. Machinery now in use can punch eyes in needles at the rate of 7000 an hour.

Voluntary hospitals in Britain

spend £8,000,000 a year in the treatment of disease.

Some disabilities, such as deafness, are said to be associated with the colour of the eyes.

Only one modern girl out of 20 knows how to sew properly, according to one expert in England.

The island of Madagascar lias a belt of forest twenty miles deep which completely encircles it.

Nearly 1000 ex-Service men are now employed as gardeners in the War Cemeteries on the Continent.

Salaries of Teachers in London elementary schools will, it is estimated, cost £74,135 less this year than last.

Among the students recently called to tlie Bar in England was the Baroness Clifton, a peeress in her own right.

In some Japanese temples may be seen suspended coils of rope woven from human hair. Such ropes, marie of hair sacrificed by thousands of women and girls, were used to hoist stone and timber when the temples were built, and are preserved as relics.

A snowfall over London, lasting two or three hours, brings down with it hundreds of tons of suspended impurities, l-pon test, a gallon of melted snow yielded three and a half grains of sulphuric' acid, one-tenth of a grain of ammonia, and 30 grains of soot. A dog,sold by its master at Gloethorpes two years ago to a man who lived at Fulstow, twenty miles away, was found recently sitting on the old doorstep. Its new master had left home, and the dog, finding itself without shelter, recalled its earlier home and made its way back. Rossi a has discovered the world’s wonder-child —a boy aged four •Tin! ten months who lias the. -i" of a fully . 'own man but ... • 1 f;icLiliies of a ehiid. He • .•' .•>: ■ •••••'• r; An . r.ordii.ary trial of

| r ( i]i L r[i\ 1 boon pei-Lonued at Nicholas, South I incoktshire. To .sot tie a wager a horseman named Warboys carried an ISsi sack of wheat for one mile down a main road without stopping. He carried the sack across his neck and shoulders. and did the journey in eighteen minutes.

The oldest match manufactory m the world is in Sweden. Matches were made there long' bolero the old roughly-trimmed splinter of wood, lipped with sulphur, was discarded with the tinder boxes for which they were used. In twenty-live years the export trade of Sweden in foreign matches increased 1000 million boxes a year. A Missouri manufacturer has hit upon the idea of foot toboggans. Resembling sandals, they are strapped to the shoes like skates. Ihe soles are of thin corrugated metal to provide traction on smooth ice and so make it possible to control movement. They can be used either for skating or coasting.