NEWS IN BRIEF.
A camera has been invented that can make a photograph of the inside of a rifle barrel. It is to be used as an aid to studying the erosion of barrels.
Black and green tea are both the produce of the same plant, the difference being the age of the leaves and the method of preparation for market.
There are about ten thousand species of fish known to science. Some can walk and climb trees, while others - have the power of making vocal sounds. Ancient Egyptian surgeons had a way of hitting the patient on the head in just the proper place and
then operating while he was unconscious from the blow.
Some rivers in Siberia flow over ice many years old* and almost as solid as’ rock. A tributary of the Lena has a bed of pure ice more than nine feet thick.
Niagara Falls is to be illuminated by the installation of submerged electric lamps instead of the system of flood-lighting at present in use.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3536, 11 September 1926, Page 1
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170NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3536, 11 September 1926, Page 1
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