NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3540, 21 September 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A good camel will travel 100 miles a day. A Grimsby trawler lias landed a thirty-stone halibut, said to be the largest that has ever been caught. Although eggs of different species of birds differ in shape, the yolks of all are invariably spherical. Derby collected £1,300 during a hospital effort, which caused the town to be short of copper coins for nearly a week. •No debts owing to him are to be collected, according to the will of a Derbyshire doctor who died recently. A young seal is the curious pet of a boy living iii Wormit, Fifeshire. It lives in an old sugar box in the garden.

A body which weighs a pound on the earth would weigh only about two and one-half ounces if taken to the moon.

Ultre-violet light can now be administered internally by) means of a new machine recently exhibited in London.

The fly flies at the rate of five feet a second at leisure, increasing it when occasion arises to thirtyfive feet a second.

Among surnames, the commonest in England are Smith, Jones, Brown Taylor, Davies, Wlison, Walker and Morris.

Walnuts are said, by scientists to be not only a substantial article of food,' but they are an excellent substitute for meat.

Bees are said to find their way to the hive by means of a special “direction finding” apparatus which throws off a scent.

■ Women in China never kiss. When a Chinese woman wishes to show heii affection she gently touches the hand of her beloved. For cruelly wounding a pigeon with a stone from a 'catapult, a Derbyshire minei s was fined only £l. The bird bled to death.

Posted as missing during the war, a German soldier has just returned home from Siberia, where he had been a prisoner since 1914. For the first time since 1917 Johannesburg has had a snowstorm, the fall lasting five hours and causing drifts two feet deep. In a tug-of-war between the men of Shepperton and the Sunburyl police, it took 13 Shepperton men to beat the police team of seven.