NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3043, 1 June 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nearly a thousand people in America now keep aeroplanes for their own use. Seven-tenths of the women in Britain are said not to know how to sit correctly. Twenty-seven persons were killed in London last year by accidental gas-poisoning-. Goat’s tallow and beech ash were the ingredients of the earliest soap. The chances of death by lightning have been calculated to be less than one in a million. By-products from the whaling industry have been found to form excellent food for pigs and cows. The nettle, which has 18 common varieties, is the most widely spread of any wild plant. More than thirty million eggs reached England from South Africa during tin? last quarter in 1925. A manicure set and a cigarholder were among the belongings of a tramp charged at Blackpool. German scientists predict that the winters will gradually become warmer and tho summers cooler. A large peat lire has been burning continuously in the Warrefi House Inn, on Dartmoor, for 130 years. Unmarried male clerks employed by the Irish Free State Government are paid less than their married colleagues. Telegraphic traffic between London and Manchester is heavier than that between any two other offices in the world. Spring-cleaning, including decorating, plumbing, and lighting, is undertaken by a London firm composed entirely of women. An English rector says that congregations should be asked to stand during the preaching of sermons as a preventilive of sleepiness. At the sale of Wjembley’s pleasure thrills,” the Grand National Switchback and Joy Mill, which cost £28,000, realised only £I4OO. If all L/ndon’s refuse were burned in modern destructors, it is estimated that electricity, worth £2,000,000 a year could be produced. Every third-class seat on the London,, Midland, and Scottish Railway earned £25 5s last year; the first-class seats averaged £23 15s each. Starting as a Wesleyan chapel in 1802, a building at Swindon lias been in turn a Salvation Army barracks, a stable, and a motor garage. Sixty half-inch brads, two screws, a ring, a wireless terminal, and three buttons were found in the crop of a chicken killed at Maldon, Essex.