NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3563, 16 November 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Reindeer milk is delivered in Nome, Alaska, in frozen block form. A white cord frozen into the block of milk serves as a handle. An American laboratory has introduced a process by which photographs taken in the air can be developed and printed during flight. A stone weighing 36 tons was lifted by the waves and thrown completely over a breakwater during a gale in the Bay of Biscay. ° A Vienna scientist declares that the noise of modern city life is resulting in the ears of the human race becoming steadily larger. Keen Motorist: What’s the most you’ve got out of your ear? Owner of Secondhand “Bargain”: About thirty times an hour.

Two special trains of 25 vans each carried 42,000 carrier pigeons from Newcastle England to for an annual race. Banana trees planted 13 years ngo in Avery Park Paln> Court, Elthani, by the London County Council have not borne fruit yet. A Danish factory is to make milk from vegetable fats, to which vitamine will be added to give the pro.duct the character of fresh milk. Experiments have been made in the ,United States in the sowing of seeds by scattering from an aeroplane flying at a height of about 200 ft. . The Eskimos were originally an inland people, living on the shores of lakes or streams, and only gradually moved to the Arctic in recent times. The biggest photographic lens ever ground has been made for a camera which will enable airmen to take photographs over five miles up. A material has been invented which, while looking and feeling like silk, is said to permit the ultraviolet rays from the sun to pass through it. The vestry where Little Dorrit slept at St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark, has been opened to the public, and is being lmng with Dickens pictures. A barrel of water weighing sewt. 231 b. was carried on his head the other day by Pierre Granier, the champion weight-lifter of the Paris Markets. Manchester is to have a railway platform 2175 ft. long. Perth already has one of 1750 ft., and York and Edinburgh each have one of nearly 1700 ft. Next to muskrats, skunks are said to be the most important furbearing animals in the United States. They are protected by law in 34 States. In the League football second Test, played in England last week, England defeated New Zealand by 21 points to 11.