NEWS IN BRIEF.
There are 4000 muscles in the body of a moth. A Johannesburg builder has laid 2500 bricks in a day. There are in Africa at least 3000 tribes and divisions of tribes. There are 56 railway tunnels over a mile long in Great Britain. An Arab, aged 105, at Jerusalem, has been sent to prison for ten years. A paste has been invented which hardens concrete and colours it any tint desired. The church bells of Graveney, in Kent, now ring again after having been silent nearly 200 years. Scotsmen average sft B®in. in height; Irishmen, sft. Bin.; Englishmen, sft. 7iin.; and Welshmen, sft. 6^in. Last year America made over 150 million barrels of Portland cement, more than all the rest of the world. A manufacturing firm in California is using homing pigeons to carry orders from its salesmen to the head office. A trout was found at Conishead Priory, Ulverston, with a huge frog in its mouth. Both frog and trout were dead. A crossbred Hamburg hen aged nearly twenty has died at Pebmarsh, Essex. Few liens live to lie more than fifteen. More than 13,000 books, a record number, were published in Britain last year, about 250 new ones every week. During last year 4774 commercial vessels passed through the Panama Canal, paying in tolls over four million pounds. An aged Staffordshire miner can remember the time when miners went to work wearing top hats and ilannel coats. Mr. James Hughes has died at Bargoed, South Wales, aged 83. He worked in a coal mine from the age of eight until he was 81. Written questions on religious subjects are now being answered from the pulpit on Sundays by the vicar of St. George’s Church, Bickley. A newspaper owner has calculated that at least £110,000,000 a year is spent in wages and materials in producing British newspapers and magazines. An electric lamp of a million candle-power has been made by two Russian engineers. The average electric arc lamp is a thousand candle-power. Some fascinating experiments are being carried out in an underground laboratory, at Washington, lor verifying Newton’s discoveries about gravitation. In order to teach people in Britain about the telephone the Post Office is sending on tour a lecturer with a working model of a telephone exchange. Of all tea-drinking nations, the United Kingdom takes first place. Last year over 400,000,0001 b were consumed—half the year’s total world production. Bernard Hotchkis, aged 11, an Eastbourne cripple who has to be lifted into the water at the municipal baths, has been awarded a medal for swimming. A woman defendant at Lambeth stated that she wished to call her prospective son-in-law, whose name she did not know. A policeman shouted, “Henry the Intended.”
Having made a profit of £10,600 last year, the Plymouth Electricity Committee has reduced the price of current for lighting to 4d a unit —one of the lowest in England.
The French Legion of Honour has been given to Grandmere Gonin for bringing up her 14 fatherless children and teaching them to farm 300 acres at Souvignyen-Sologne.
Not long ago, at Cromford Hill, near Matlock, a large hole suddenly appeared in the main road. A weight lowered into the chasm descended fifty feet and then touched water.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3032, 6 May 1926, Page 1
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