NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3041, 27 May 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

London was the first city to use coal. Spiders usually live two or three years. Bagpipes originated in Persia and Egypt, Boy Scouts in the British Empire number 425,235. Signatures in lead pencil have been held good in law. There are 20,328 miles of railway in Great Britain. Advertisements first appeared in newspapers in 1G52. Fanners in England have spent £20,000 on advertising milk. A sewing machine works twelve times as fast as the hand. British charities have an income of £20,273,000 annually. Smoking began as a religious rite among the natives of America. There are now nearly 4500 public telephone boxes in London. There are more muscles in the tail of a rat than in the human hand. There are many yew trees in England that date back to Saxon times. Fines paid by motorists in Britain every year amount to about £400,000.” Over four million pounds of honey are produced each year in Quebec. In Madagascar everyone is clothed in silk. It is cheaper than linen. Borax was extremely rare and almost as precious as gold in early 1 times.