NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3657, 25 June 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The feet of bees are their organs of communication. The Braille Bible tills 38 volumes, and weighs one hundredweight. There are now 27Hi public telephone kiosks in use in Britain’s streets. Only one vessel was launched on the Tyne during the first ten weeks of this year. Two thousand motor-cycles and 30,000 bicycles cross the London bridges every day. With a total population of about 100, Leavenheath, a village in Suffolk, lias 80 bachelors. A field ant lias been known to hold in its jaws a weight 3000 times heavier-Ilian itself. A woman barrister has appeared lor the first, time before a House of Commons Committee. A thousand scientific books have been published in England for every vear of this century. It has been estimated that a single pair oi stocking's contains the silk of 333 silkworms. The British Museum has received from Egypt a prehistoric flint saw embedded in. a piece of wood. When taken fom the River tweed, a. large salmon had a full-grown herring inside it. New publications arrive at the British Museum Library at the rate of 30,000 a month. Mr. De Roux, of Manakau, met with a peculiar mishap there last week, which, however, was not attended bv serious consequences. He was cranking his car, which had been inadvertently left in gear, so that when the engine started the car ran forward knocking Mr. De Roux down and passing over his chest. No bones were broken, and beyond receiving a good shaking, the victim of the mishap practically escaped injury and was able to resume his duties in a few clays.