NEWS IN BRIEF.
It is said that the human voice will carry a distance of about 150 yards in calm weather. A party of German fish mei - chants recently arrived at Grimsby to study the methods of the British fishing industry. It is stated that trees could give evidence of the weather in ages long past when no other reports were possible. A man’s lung will hold six pints of air in ordinary breathing and ten pints in deep/ breathing. The earth, according to scientists, is likely to be stimck comet only once m 20,000,00 y A statue in honour of Virgil has been unveiled at Mantua, near v/ ic town he was born in 70 B.C. The eel has two separate hearts. One beats sixty, the other one hundred and sixty, times a. minute. An electric siren which submarines can sound -when rising to the surface has been invented by a Swede.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3711, 1 November 1927, Page 4
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153NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3711, 1 November 1927, Page 4
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