NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3582, 4 January 1927, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

The vicar of All Saints,’ Kettering, England, has been touring the streets with a barrel-organ to assist in the collection of a ton of pennies toward a new church. Radio Station KGO, Oakland, California, broadcasts the time, day and date, because of requests from listeners in mountain and desert regions who lose track of time.

No one in the British House of Parliament need carry a watch to know the time, as there are clocks in each of the 500 rooms, as well as in some of the corridors.. Grain which receives electrical treatment in the early stages of growth has been found to yield a crop 10 to 20 per cent, heavier than that grown by the ordinary method. Among the unusual professions followed by women in Britain are dealing in autographs, running children’s parties, finding names for persons or articles, and running a roofing factory. Marriageable young women are becoming so scarce in the Peru district of Massachusetts that one young bachelor has offered to give the mayor a cow if he will find him a wife.

Mr. William Stephenson, of Flamborough, who recently saved two

people from drowning at Bridlington, has received a parcel containing two cigarettes and the message, “One for each life saved.” The ‘narrower a bird’s wing is in comparison to its length, the better is the ability to fly. Also, the shorter the body is in comparison to the length of the outstretched wing, the greater is the flying power. A man named Johnson who attempted to walk from Chicago to New York without food was forced to abandon his task when he had covered 607 miles —half the distance —in 20 days. He lost 371 b. in weight. A French thief who thought he was breaking into the house of a family on holiday let himself into the Marseilles office of the Secret Police, and walked into a room where there were five detectives.