NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3633, 3 May 1927, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Only one person in 15 has perfect eyes. The average family of five persons in England consumes about 351 b. of tea a year. Fur trappers in the winter time yield Canadian farmers about £2,000,000 a year.

The West Highland sea lochs yielded 50,000 tons of winter herrings in nine weeks.

Only one couple out of every 1,000 married people live to keep their golden wedding. The Vatican Library at Rome contains 34,000 MSS. and about 250,000 printed volumes. In France 42 tons of letters could not be delivered last year owing to careless addressing. An old lady Swansea died at the station when about to take her first railway journey. Garden tulips were introduced into Britain through Holland in the sixteenth century. A Bromley wife has given 10,000 farthings to the Salvation Army Self Denial Fund. The Queen of Holland, who gave up a tenth of her income last year, is doing the same this year. Travellers by train between Berlin and Hamburg can now ring up their .friends by wireless telephone. A Skegness lady has given to the local hospital £6 made by the sale of golf balls picked up in a garden next to the inks. Malta, the traditional Mclita of the New Testament, has now issued a new 10/- postage stamp showing the figure of St. Paul. A curious horticultural freak is to be seen in a garden at Templeton, Pembrokeshire, where an apple tree has a blackcurrant bush growing out of the trunk.