NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3672, 30 July 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Sheffield firm has received a War Office order for 35,000 clasp knives.

When cows charge they do so with open eyes; bulls, on the other hand, shut theirs. Excessive weight is not necessarily due to overeating, as many stout persons are very small eaters.

Over 2000 miners at Marine Collieries, Cwm, recently ceased work in sympathy with two dismissed fanmen.

Eavesdropping is still punishable in Britain as a crime under an old Act .of Parliament dating back to 1360.

.For the 29th time in succession the Earl of Belmore has been elected chairman of Enniskillen Rural Council.

Children who refuse milk and favour pickles and other vinegary foods are more likely to suffer from rheumatic fever.

Wood-wasps, which lay their eggs on the wood of various fir-

trees, are able to bore through such metal as sheet lead.

The teeth of eighty per cent, of Ihe school-children of Wood Green, a London suburb, require some sort of attention.

Asthma, similar in its symptoms to hay-fever, may be caused by the hair of certain animals, including the domestic cat. While lighting a fire in the kitchen range at Dannevirke, Mr. A. S. Berry, a pork butcher, by mis take used benzine instead of kerosene. An "explosion followed. Mr. Berry’s clothes caught fire. With the lower) portion of his clothing alight, he seized a little child and rushed outside. After discarding his burning clothing he returned to extinguish the wallpaper of the room, which was ablaze. Mr. Berry is now in the hospital. He was badly burnt about the legs.