NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ail ostrich yields about 31b of feathers yearly. The thinnest and toughest leather is made from frog’s skin. Half the houses in London are each occupied by two or more families. There are more tjian 4000 different editions of the Bible in the British Museum, Forests cover about 32 per cent, of Czecho-Slovakia, an area of some 12,550,000 acres. A typewriter for the use of Chinese characters has been invented by a Chinese engineer.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3029, 29 April 1926, Page 1
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77NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3029, 29 April 1926, Page 1
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