NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3509, 10 July 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Scotland has but one lake —Lake Mciitcith. All other inland stretches of water are lochs.

Under a seventeenth-century merchant’s will a choirboy stood on his head while the boundaries of charity were beaten at Leighton Buzzard. Human skulls are changing in shape, according to Miss V. George, a London scientist; who says she believes that faces are growing longer and narrower. Fifteen thousand letters, written between 1833 and 1883 by Mme. Huiiette Brouet to Victor Hugo, have been sold in Paris by auction for 18,000 francs. The weight of people on the floor at the Albert Hall, London, during a big dance is over 150 tons. Firemen patrol beneath the floor during the dance. A German electrical engineer has invented a device that enables a policeman, by merely touching a criminal with the tips of his fingers, to render the miscreant unconscious. The Newcastle Wieekly Chronicle, which, as a result of the general strike, was not published on May 8, had not previously missed a publication since March, 1764, a period of 132 years. Out of over 3000 workmen employed by one British motor firm only three went on strike on the occasion of the recent stoppage. During the week of the strike over 900 cars were delivered. A record 4s believed to have been established by the Rev. J. N. L. Bryan, of St. Paul’s, Bednynster, Bristol, who has just christened a centenarian. She is Mrs Maria Davies, who is 102 years old.

The favourite months for marriage in Britain, according to the statistics of the Register-General, are July, August and September, when 30 per cent, of the total marriages of the year take place. Fletcher, Burrows and Co., the owners of the Atherton Collieries, Lancashire, gave their 3500 workpeople 15s each to help them through the difficulties caused by the strike. Septuagenarians received £1 each. ,