NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3508, 8 July 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Prussian Government has arranged that in North Schleswig, wherever the parents of 24 children desire it, schools shall be provided with Danish teachers teach ing Danish. In the coldest parts of Siberia, a rainbow may sometimes be seen all day long in a cloudless sky. It is supposed to be due to the reflection of the sun on fine particles of snow in the air. A remarkable new American slot machine has thirty kinds of articles in it. An indicator is pointed to the name of the article desired, and when the coin is inserted that article drops out.

By an Italian law, every circus that does not perform every act promised in the printed programme, or which misleads the public by means' of pictures, is liable to a heavy fine for each offence.

A church for children has been opened at Brighton. It is superintended and financed by children, while the organist is only eleven years of age and the church-war-dens are both under fourteen. Men buried in an avalanche of snow hear distinctly every word uttered by those who are seeking them, while their own most strenuous shouts fail to penetrate even a few feet of Hie snow.

The town of Canton, in Ohio, has a two-storev steel-framed building entirely without rivets. Electric are welding has been used, and it isthat this lias saved 23 per cent of the cost of building. Every swan found in British rivers or seas may lie seized by the Crown, and become its property unless it bears its owner’s mark. The King’s birds are marked on the beak with the Royal initial.

Mr. T. E. Hammond, walked 131 miles and 580 yards in 24 hours at the London Stadium in 1008. He thus beat the feat of Mr. W. Howes, who in 1878 at Islington, London, walked 127 miles and 1210 yards in two rounds of the clock.

Every sign of verdure has been stripped from a seven-acre wood in North Devon by an invasion of starlings. The birds, which- must have numbered millions, have killed all the small trees.

\vandsworth, London’s largest borough, has 37 persons to each one of its 9199 acres. At the other end of the scale is the borough of Holborn with 405 acres, each holding an average of 107 persons. Following criticisms of sermons preached in Exeter Cathedral, a clock is to be placed in the pulpit. The clock will act as a check againat long sermons, and critics are invited to contribute toward the cost.

For five generations a family at Straton, near Norwich, have been keeping natural history records, such as the leafing of trees and the arrival and departing of birds. The period covered goes back to 1740.

Transmitting photographs long distances by telephone has become a regular commercial service in America. A photograph measuring seven inches by five can be sent from New York to San Francisco n seven and a-half minutes.

Durng the week ended March* 27, 5000 settlers destined for various parts of Canada landed at Halifax. This constitutes the largest immigration movement through Halifax since the peak of the immigration influx before the war.

There is a man-eating leopard in the vicinity of Rudraprayag Garhwal, in India, which is responsible for killing over a hundred human beings. Many attempts have been made to destroy the monster, but have hitherto been frustrated by its extem'e cunning. Son of a Camberwell dustman, Master Harry Seeds has been appointed, at the age of twelve, editor of a London newspaper, The New Schoolboy, a monthly journal, written, printed, and published by the boys of Cator Street Elementary School, Peckham. Although he is only two years and four months old, John Newey has travelled over 30,000 miles. He was born in Uganda, and has travelled three times between East Africa and England. His mother and he are on holiday in England, before going out to Singapore. The discovery is reported by Canadian Pacific Railway officials of several new scallop beds in the Bay of Fundy, in the vicinity of Digby Gap. The fleet engaged in scallop fishing now consists of 10 vessels, and during the month of

March record catches and prices were realised. The Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, issues a daily newspaper for the benefit of its patrons. A copy is placed under the door of each of the 2200 rooms in the hotel every afternoon at five. Its editor is a woman, Mrs Grace Oakley, who keeps her finger on every news detail in connection with the hotel. Six men were wounded by a single bullet on a target range at San Juan, in Porto Rico, when a rifle was accidentally discharged. The bullet wounded one soldier in the abdomien, another on the knee, was deflected from a rifle and hit a (bird in the neck, then struck a captain and lieutenant in turn, and finally lodged in the hip of a sixth man. It is estimated that during the past year 60,000 eases of eggs and 5,000,00011) of poultry were exported from Alberta to eastern Canada and the British Isles. It was only a few years ago that Alberta was a fairly extensive importer of eggs and poultry, hut active campaigns by the provincial government and other interested bodies have reversed the situation.

The fox-terrier is the most popular home dog in Britain. The shaggy Airedale, which many owners believe to be the most human, ranks second. Kennel club statistics showed that already this year 7000 fox-terriers have been registered. The dachshund continues to slump in popularity. The dog population in Britain is approaching the three million mark.