NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3506, 3 July 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Penny cups of soup are now served at the bars of. public-houses at Carlisle, England, where experimental State ownership of th# liquor traffic is still in force. ■ Several plants, including tho mimosa, a"re stated to show distinct signs of muscular contraction on being truck. This is said to indicate that plants have a sense of feeling. Acknowledgements of conscience money in Britain by the Board of Inland Revenue -are frequent enough; but it is very rarely that so large an amount is in question as was set forth recently in the usual newspaper notice. The amount of which the board acknowledged receipt was £993 13s, and it came from “Stony.” Rabbits to the number of 4000 have been caught by Mr Thomas Wellman during his 50 years’ service as custodian of Maiden Castle, Dorchester. The pests were destroying the hill on which the castle stood when he began his-work of extermination. For more than 200 years, a lamp has been burning continually at the foot of the statue of Our Lady of Great Power, in the Ursulines Convent at Quebec. The lamp was lit, and provision made for its maintenance in perpetuity, by Mile, dc Repentigny, in as a thankoffering for having been relieved of temptation to return to the world.