NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3697, 29 September 1927, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The name of a small town in Arizona is Total Wreck.

The University of Wales has no chair for Welsh history.

Glycerine, which is a by-product of soap manufacture, never freezes.

Unlike some varieties ’of snakes, anacondas can never be tamed.

One American boy in every ten between 12 and 18 is now a boy scout.

Every time the clock ticks the British Government departments spend £26 10s. Over £IOO,OOO lias been spent in protecting the Lincolnshire coast against the sea. Britain’s catch of fish last year was 650,000 tons, about 50,000 tons less than the year before. A cricketer at Kendal hit a ball into the tender of a passing train and the fire man duly fielded it.

Insects, it is calculated, have been on the earth for 50,000,000 yeai’S, while the human race is only 500,000 years old. Caught in a trap in a Lincolnshire grocery store, a rat bit through a gas pipe and was asphyxiated by the fumes. Cheques bring annual revenue oi about £3,000,000 to the British Treasury through the twopenny stamps they bear. A woman has sent £IOO to Oxford Poor Law Infirmary in recognition of kindness shown to a friend nearly forty years ago. More herring were brought in as a recent day’s catch at North Shields than during the whole of last season’s herring fishing.

Stamping out the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in various parts of Britain during the last seven years has cost £5,000,000. A new power station to supply Berlin with electricity consumes 500 tons of coal dust brought every day by train from Upper Silesia.

A thousand boys are serving ap-prentice-ships for skilled work in the technical corps of the British Army, and places are to be found for more.

Leaflets, posters, and other means of advertising the telephone in Britain cost £IOOO during a recent 12 months; this works out at £B3 6s 8d a month.