NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3655, 21 June 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Women have the spendings of 15s out of every pound spent in England. In 22 Kent villages there have been no eases of insobriety for nine years. ,A factory has been built in Berlin to make artificial silk out of rubbish. During the post year 499,473,766 telephone calls were made in the London area. It is estimated that the sea now yields food products worth over £200,000,000 a year. Aberdeen, the Granite City, has imported over 1200 tons of granite iri a month. There arc now over 570,000 mo-tor-ears in Canada, nearly half of them in Ontario. Last year, for the first time, Britain exported more motor vehicles than were imported. Among the 900 pupils in one Dundee school are 14 pairs of Twins; 18 girls and 10 boys' Only about 30,000,000' of the world’s available 450,000,000 horsepower from water is used. Milk can now be produced that will keep in perfectly good condition for from 96 to 120 hours. Eleven escalators will be provided at the new Tube station being built at* Piccadilly Circus. A dog on holiday with his master in the island of Arran found nearly 400 lost golf balls, in a month. The first wireless journal for the' blind has just been started in Paris. It is printed in Braille. Yoilets, rose petals, and nasturtiums for flavouring salads arc among the novelties of French cooking. Electric fires arc fitted in a new French monoplane which is to attempt a flight to New York. Symptoms very similar to those of intoxication can be caused by any one of 16 different illnesses. Materials fade more quickly in England than in India, largely because of the dampness of the atmosphere. British soldiers are buying less beer nowadays, choosing instead chewing-gum, pastries, cakes and sweets. Each rat caught in the docks and warehouses of the Port of London last year cost about 2s 3d to catch. The Tibetans call Mount Everest by a name that means “The place so high that even a bird goes blind there.” People are now moving back into the inner ring of London si\bui'bs, ns large blocks of flats are being ■1 erected. The nerve centred” that react to music are in the feet. This explains why we tap time to music with our feet. When shovelling refuse into the destructor fire at Baxton, Derbyshire, workmen discovered a live ■ three-inch shell. Out of the new London County Council rate for 1927-8 of 3/11 in the pound, no less than 2/24 is wanted for education. The Prince of Wales has a large number of canine favourites, but Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, prefers horses to dogs. Thirty electric coin-counting and packing machines are i# use at the ; Bank of England.. Each machine counts £ISOO an hour. Eyes can now be examined so minutely by a new appliance that even the corpuscles circulating in the blood-vessels are visible. Tbe historic George Inn at Norton St. Philip,-Somerset, is said to be the oldest village inn in England, its licensing dating from 1397. Criminals arc growing more clever and less brutal; such offences as brutality' to children and weak persons become rarer every year. A wreath sent by Queen Victoria to a funeral at Bilsthorpe 40 years ago is still preserved in the parish church, in a glass and marble case.