NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3509, 10 July 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sour beer is sometimes used for polishing jewellery.

The average height at which migrating birds fly is 350 ft. A day in China is divided into twelve part of two hours each. The light from some of the stars takes centuries to reach the earth. An average of one shipwreck a day is the toll of the sea each year. Germany in developing an artificial wool which is produced from pine wood. Smoke by day and fire by night were first used for the transmission of information. Among the savage nations drums arc still used to transmit messages over wide areas. According to a notable German

ientist, apes possess a well-de-loped sense of humour.

Only one couple out of every thousand married people live to keep their golden wedding.

Recent discoveries in Kashmir show that cock-fighting took place in the fifth eefitury in India.

It is estimated that, by 1950 London will be a city of 11,000,000. The population to-day is 7,500,000.

In the sixteeenth century letter carriers in Germany were equipped with stilts to increase their speed.

Paraites usually form the nucleus of pearls, about which several layers of material are deposited. During a recent thunderstorm in Hampshire, a dog chained to its kennel by a metal chain was killed by lightning.

Diamond cutters who go to London to buy gems remain in semidarkness until the time comes for examining the stones. One hundred and eighty-seven persons . were killed in London through street accidents in January, February and March. In order to discourage the export of eggs, .butter and poultry,,the French Government has decided to increase the export duty.

To explore Britain thoroughly by motoring over its full length of highways would take 1773 days, travelling at one hundred miles a dav.

There are at present 180 children over five years of age residing in (lie Middleton area of Leeds for whom there is no accommodation in school.