NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3705, 18 October 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There is a school headmaster in Radnorshire still teaching at 92. Salford has borrowed £28,000 to buy 87 acres of land for playing fields. A mushroom big enough to cover a dinner-plate has been picked in J ersey. Two Parisian youths went by canoe from Paris to Brest, 440 miles, in 16 days.

A 7 foot shark was recently killed by a steamer’s propellor in the Manchester Ship Canal.

The infant death-rate for Bermondsey has been reduced in, 25 vears from 200 to GO per 1000 . Steamers go up the river Amazon as far as Oquitos, in Peru, 2,300 miles from the mouth.

The Navy ration of lemon juice with rum is to be replaced by orange juice without n\m. A 30-year-old cable tramway up the hill at Matlock has given way to a motor-bus service. Municipal house tenants at Blackpool who neglect their gardens have received notice to quit. Pigtails having gone out of fashion in China, tons of human hair are being exported to Hull. In one district of London alone — Deptford—there are 3,000 houses condemned as 'unfit for habitation. In the Yorkshire village of Hutton Cranswick, there are 17 inhabitants whose average age is 84. Madame Nemtohinova, the Russian dancer, who arrived in London recently, has insured her legs for £30,000. A Norwegian girl of 19 has won a master’s certificate entitling her to the command of steamers up to 250 tons. A painting by Raphael and his foreman, Penni, has been discovered in Italy. It was picked up at a country sale. A football team representing the British Workers’' Sports Federation recently left for a playing tour in Russia. The number of motor vehicles in use in Britain went up last year by 237,000 and is now 1,750,000. Cars increased by 100,000. The Constantinople Chamber of Commerce proposes that the Turkish day of rest should in future be Sunday instead of Friday. A grateful patient at Lambeth Poor Law Hospital sent a hundred guineas to the board in addition to (he cost of his keep there. A sparrow flew into the kitchen of a house at Ashfordby, near Melton Mowbray, laid an egg in a saucepan, and flew away again. Ten cows, which arc kept in a shed near Tottenham Court Road, and never see a blade of grass, yield a good supply of milk daily. The word electricity was used in the 17th century because the phenomena of attraction were first observed in rubbed amber, the Greek word for which is elektron. . Because lipsticks make a stain that laundries cannot remove, fashionable restaurants in Budapest have gone back to the papei ta e napkins in use during the war. According to tho United States Bureau of Standards, when ut y articles are exposed to sunlight t c darker rubber lasts longest.