NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3612, 12 March 1927, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

While the Hadlcigh, Essex, fire brigade band was playing at the opening of the parish hall they were called out to a stack tire.

Matches sold in Britain are subject to a tax of 5s on 10,000 matches, which arc equivalent to 200 boxes each containing 50 matches. Women with red hair usually keep then- fair complexion unblemished to a more advanced age than those with darker hair. “The highest tribute a man can pay his wife is to take her breakfast in bed.”—Counsel in a matrimonial case at Bishop Auckland, England. By an experiment whereby indestructible tags were attached to their legs, it was discovered that rats would travel 190 miles to obtain food. Women engaged in domestici work too often get into the habit of constantly nibbing at food; the result is over-eating and ruined complex-

ion. A “porcupine cork, lor bottles containing poisons lias been invented. It is fitted with sharp glass spikes which bristle in every direction. There were 789 applicants, including a ship’s captain, for a £l2O a year post as caretaker of a 'church, institute and schools at Spennymoor, Durham. The bridegroom, the officiating, clergyman and the best man, at a recent wedding at Christchurch Priory Church, England, bad all been twice married. Within fourteen miles of London, the Kentish village of Dowue has neither gas nor electricity, no main drainage, no doctor, no cinema, ail'd no omnibus. . After the heart mivsciloi, the diaphragm muscle is the most impoitant in the human body, as it- is able to do all the breathing required to maintain life. A camera-pistol has been invented. It produces automatically and simultaneously with each shot fired a picture of the object aimed at, even in darkness. Cowsheds are not used on a farm near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, where cows are kept out all the year round] and milked in portable sheds by machinery. A pair of pheasants have reared a brood of live in the gardens of, Buckingham Palace. The family has been fed very often by both the King and Queen Mary. Forty one-pound notes, with the message,' “For foreign niissions,” were found in a tin on the doorstep of a bouse at Leighton Buzzard where a missionary was slaying. British aeroplanes have llown 2,000,000 miles and earned 25,000 passengers. Compared with these figures, German ma'dhines, during six months of last year, flew 2,500,000 miles and carried 48.000 passengers. London’s death-roll from street accidents is lower than that of Greater New York, although the population of the latter city is over 1,000,000 less than that of London. Shyness can best be cured by the development of self-confidence, which calls for the power of thinking, the power of acting on the thought, and the power of self-con-trol. ' Certain seats and boxes in the Albert Hall, London, are the absolute property for 1000 years of 'certain people, the descendants of subscribers to the original foundation fund. Screen heroes are now growing older. The middle-aged 'lover, with his experienced wooing is proving more attractive than the youthful possessor of masculine beauty and brawn. Before playing an international football match at Shorncliffe the two battalions whose representatives were taking part, were lectured on playing the game and not barracking the teams. Out of the Loudon business women who went bankrupt in 1925, milliners and dressmakers were most numerous, followed by drapers, grocers, clothiers and outfitters, and lodging-house keepers.

The searchlight of the Renown showed almost as vividly in Foxton and district as in Wellington on Monday night. “The fair-beaded have enormous advantages over dark-haired,” says Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, the famous surgeon. “They seem to be able to fight against disease very much better.”. Covering 17,300 square miles, Canada’s new national game preserve has been named Wood Buffalo Park. Already it ‘contains nearly 6000 buffaloes. This park is half the size of Scotland. With Sir Alfred Soward, aged 71, as skipper, and his two nieces, both 23 year's of age, as crew, a six-ton auxiliary motor-ketch has just completed a voyage of 1800 miles in the North Sea. Workmen who wero repairing the walls of the Guardroom, at Windsor Castle, found traces of an earlier one built of chalk. The present wall dates from :the time of Henry H 1—1216-1272. According to an old Jewish custom, when a master tailor employs a new worker the latter leaves his scissors as a guarantee that he will be at hand to start work on the appointed; day. “Don’t worry; don’t acquire over-weight; drink three quarts of water daily; exercise regularly; and sleep with plenty of fresh air.” These arc the rules of health followed by John D. Rockefeller, the American millionaire, who is 87 years old. Half a century ago a man joined Hie British Commercial Travellers’ Benevolent Institution and subscribed his three guineas. Before lie could pay a second donation he died, and his widow became an annuitant of the society. News lias now been receved of her death, after she has receved £1233 from (lie institution in the 50 years.