NEWS IN BRIEF
Coral, an old-time favourite long despised, is usurping the place of jade in popularity. Matehines for filling milk-bottles at the rate of 2000 an hour were recently exhibited in London.
A farthing lay beside ,a £IOO banknote in a collection at the stone-laying of a church hall at Catford, London.
One edition of the Bible weighs almost liewt., and consists of 38 volumes. It is the Braille form, used by the blind.
Charing Cross underground station is to have a new escalator with a speed of 100 ft. per minute instead of the usual 90ft.
Many of the policemen in the East End of London can speak Yiddish, the lanuage of the Ghetto. A fossil tree, seventy feet long, and estimated to be a million years old, has been found in Bengal. Since wooden sleepers would be eaten away by insects in India, metal railway sleepers have to bu used.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3587, 15 January 1927, Page 1
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153NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3587, 15 January 1927, Page 1
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