NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3021, 10 April 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Montreal lias the highest infant deathrate in the whole of North America.

A Ramsgate trawler lately landed a catch of turbot valued at over £750.

More than 145 million' herrings have been caught this season at Yarmouth.

Councillor Spiers, the town postman, has been chosen Mayor of Brackley.

To handle the Christmas mail in England, 8000 temporary helpers were engaged. Saccharin is so sweet that one part gives a perceptible taste to 10,000 parts of water. Miss 11. Smith, a Leicestershire lady, has died at the age of 79 in the house she was born in. Concrete can now be made in different colours, thus avoiding the monotony of hard grey houses. Veils of white muslin are suggested for the use of sufferers from colds, to avoid spreading infection. A loud speaker with three bell mouths, each 40ft. across and 110 feet high, is being built in Germany. County Meath Ireland, is perhaps the only part of the British Isles where the men outnumber the women.

If a man walked four miles an hour without stopping day or night, he would walk round the world in 37 weeks.

Jackdaws, magpies, squirrels, hedge-hogs, cranes, peacocks, and swans were popular dishes in the Middle Ages. Workmen have been, searching for over 15 years for a leak in the gas mains outside Vauxhall Railway Station, London. Mechanical dolls, which can walk with quite a natural grace, are being used as mannequins to display the newest fashions.

The oldest ship in the world still in commission was sold recently. She was built in 1880, but is still sound in her timbers.

For perhaps the first time for centuries, a dance recently took place in the Tower of Lonodn. It was held in the officers’ mess.

An average orange-tree produces about 20,000 oranges, and a le-mon-tree 8000 lemons. Twelve ambulance stations are maintained by the London County Council. The ambulances deal with some 600 eases a week.

The Monument, London, which is 202 ft, high, was designed by Sir Christopher Wren to serve as a tube •for a long telescope. Bigger than Big Ben, Westminister’s famous bell, will be the new bell just ordered from a Croydon firm for export to America.

Only one person —the King—is exempt from the payment of postage. Other members of the Royal Family affix stamps to their letters.

Pope Pius XI, has instructed a new Feast, that of “Christ the King,” which is to be celebrated annually on the last Sunday in Oe* tober.

Millions of pounds are spent every year in Britain on furs, mostly rabbit, which are imported from all parts of the world, but could be produced there. A gigantic lamp of 45,000,000 candle-power is used to guide nightflyers iu the Trans-Continental Air Mail Service between Chicago and Cheyenne.