NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3620, 31 March 1927, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Still able to entertain her friends by singing homely ditties, Mrs. Houfe, a resident of Beverly, East Yorkshire, celebrated her 100th birthday recently. Arbroath is conferring the freedom of the town on Mr. Walter Gibson, aged 93, who has been 80 years in its service and is still serving as a water-inspector. Every attendant in hairdressers’ shops in Britain will have to wash in disinfectant after each shave or haircut if a new code of hygiene comes into force. In return for a sum of £SOOO cash down, a West End restaurant lias undertaken to supply a business man with two meals every day for the rest of bis life. Thousands of cakes of soap of different sizes and shapes'were used in fashioning a large model locomotive at a Berlin exposition. The rails, too, were of soap. Tinsel pictures, once so popular, are returning to favour. Only one man in London knows the process, and his greatest difficulty is in procuring the necessary tinsel. Sufferers from specially severe toothache are to be taken in as bed patients in the Royal Dental Hospital, London, when the necessary arrangements have been made. By an order of the London County Council the parishes of Whitechapel, Limehouse and St. Gcorgc-in-the-East and the hamlet of MileEnd Old-Town, Stepney, have been united. At a recent American exhibition a replica of a grand piano constructed ou a scale of one-eighth of an inch to the foot, and claimed to be accurate in every detail, was exhibited. t Among the noises of London recorded during a recent experiment, the most predominant was the changing of gears on motor-buses. This was followed by the noise of motor buses.