NEWS IN BRIEF.
The average growth of hair i*» two inches a month. Shakespeare, toward the end of his life, was earning £SOOO a year. A. single spider has been known to spin a thread 4800 yards long. Sir James Barrio has done till his writing with his left hand for some years. About 25 per cent, of the anthracite coal resources of America has been mined. Ultra-violet rays are now beiuj used in Germany, as aids to the detection of crime. This season’s American cotton crop is a huge one, amounting to about 18 million bales. Wlool yields one-fourth of the heat of coal. Charcoal gives about the same heat as coal. The oldest woman in the world is reputed to be a Persian, who has declared her age as 146 years. Telephone wires now stretch aeross the Sinai Desert, over which Moses and Aaron led the Children of Israel. A halfpenny stamp of the Niger Coast, 1893, which has been sur charged “2-Jd,” was sold at London lately, for £46.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3591, 27 January 1927, Page 1
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172NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3591, 27 January 1927, Page 1
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