NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 30503, 26 June 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are between 30,060 and 40,000 different species of insects known.

Among the North American Indians the hair often grows as long as B.lft.

“Dion et mon Droit,” the Royal motto, was first used by Richard I in 1108.

Two blind hoys took paid in the British Boys’ Chess Congress at Hastings.

There were 2701 cremations during 1025, carried out at the 10 British crematoria.

There are now about 3000 cinema theatres in Britain, with nearly a million scats.

A tax was imposed on bachelors and widowers in 1005, hut it was repealed in 1700. There are thirty-two waterfalls within a distance of 154 miles on the Congo River. In India, about two millions and a-half acres of land are under sugar-cane cultivation. Three hundred and sixty million eggs are. reported from the United

States annually. Every year wool and pulp imports to the value of £0,000,000 enter Great Britain. Chinese and Japanese women clerks are becoming quite common in large California shops. Nearly £1,500,000 has been spent by the London County Council in widening the Strand. A twenty-seven feel minute-hand lor the largest clock in the word was recenty completed. In a Danish isle an artilieial lake has been formed specially for the purpose of raising eels. For two months aeroplane passengers between Genoa and Palermo are to he carried free. Bibles numbering over 10,mm, 000 were issued last year by the British and Foreign Bible ‘Society. British Treasury notes are sufficient, if equally divided, to pay £<J per head of the population. ■ It is estimated that m one year :i sea urchin lays as many eggs as the population of England. . The Rajah of Gauripur and his partv recently shot 17 tigers in lo davs near Sorbhog, in Assam. A new method of wood carving is reported to lie tl.nl of sand-blast-ing the wood through stencils. Burglars in a Wimbledon house took £SO worth of goods, but overlooked £SOO worth of jewellery and plate. . , Pedigree dogs, registered at the English Kennel Club,, numbered over 55,500 at the beginning of this year.

London County Council tvamcars Parry more than a million passentrcrs during; the six rush houts o the (lav. Over a hundred thousand passengers, travelling in 700 trains, use. Victoria Station in London every day. j Smoking is to be allowed in all the 2,000 waiting rooms of the London and North-Eastern Kailway Company. Top-hats are enjoying a little increase in popularity, especially in Aberdeen and other Scottish University towns. Tinfoil worth £1,228 was collected .last year in Britain by the Hospital Fund for the United Ancient Order of Druids. A pawnticket could not he produced in evidence at Manchester Police Court because the prisoner had swallowed it. Spring Wood, Caldeeote, Nuneaten, a famous covert of the Atherstone Hunt, is to he converted into a pleasure resort. About 1,300 members of the London police force, at the annual cost of £420,000, a.re engaged on traffic regulation duties. Human hair is worth 18s to 100 s per pound, according to the colour, it was stated at the Clerkenv/ell Police Court, recently.