NEWS IN BRIEF
Fitted with a bath and shower to every cell, a new gaol opened at Jersey City, United States, has cream walls, bronze and gold lighting fixtures, and cell doors on roller bearings to eliminate noise. Pointed toes have always been favoured by women. Leather soles of shoes worn by the Roman women of the London of 1800 years' ago, and recently discovered during excavations fear the Bank of England, prove this.
The Turkish Givernment is considering putting into operation a “good health” tax. It is suggested that people who enjoy robust health should pay a super-tax of 20 per cent., the sum raised to go toward the cost of maintaining the infirm.
In the past five years over 3,600,000 telephones have been added to the telephone systems of the United States, more than there are in the whole of Great Britain and Germany, or, alternatively, in the rest of Europe outside those countries. 'Six fire-engines, forty firemen, a large number of police, and a small army of reporters and photographers answered a fire alarm at Salford Docks, only to find that a man. had accidental!v singed his hair and that a panic-stricken companion had rung the fire-alarm bell. A boy living at Headley, Hampshire, saw a falcon swoop down on a young rabbit at play in a field. The bird had not risen far before a stone from the boy hit it and caused it to drop its prey. The boysecured the rabbit and took it home.
A London vicar lias taken up the making of hand-beaten silverware as a means of adding to his income. He specialises in church vessels, but is ready Jo undertake other commissions.
That tuberculosis will be as rare in the England of two generations ahead as leprosy is now was a cheering forecast made at the recent congress of the National Veterinary Association. Too many cigarettes, insufficient attention to diet, and lack of adequate clothing are the cause of the increased deathrate among younger unmarried women, according to Dr. Mary Scharlieb. Vegetarian weddings are being encouraged by the French Society of Vegetarians. The society has organised a series of functions where young lovers of vegetables .can start their courtships. Thirty threepenny-bits were solemnly' handed by a bridegroom to the registrar of Dorking, Surrey, recently. He had promised his financee to marry her when he had saved the fee in “threepennies.” Artificial silk is now being made from the bark of the giant redwood tree, and it is possible to utilise practically every fibre of the tree. Until the present time the bank was considered a waste product. “Pin-money,” as the name of a wife’s allowance, dates back to the reign of Charles 1. This monarch received £SOO a year from the pinmakers; this sum he handed to his Queen for her private purse. -Built by a religious community, a house near Pontefract was demolished by order of i;he local council, who had not passed the plans. It was then rebuilt, and once again the council has ordered its removal.
Feathers of all kinds are being used for making artificial flowers decorating handbags, and for other ornamental purposes, with the result that even lien feathers are fetching a, fair price if in bulk. Covering a site of seven and alialf acres and to cost £330,000, a new training centre for Salvation Army officers is being erected at Denmark Hill as a memorial to the late General Booth, the Army’s founder.
There iS a lake near Batticaloa, on the east coast of Ceylon, famous for its singing fish. The music heard on the surface of the water is said to be caused by fbe opening and closing of the shells of bivalves.
Mr. Ralph Steinbruge and Mrs. Geneviere Norvel were married recently off Ganaque, Canada, in a motor-boat which was tearing through the water at an estimated speed of more than forty miles an hour.
Motorists will not hurt themselves if they collide with a new signpost invented in America, nor will they damage the post. It is made of rubber and simply gives way to the car, returning to its erect position after the blow.
The Flying Scotsman lias run over 5000 miles without losing a minute since the non-stop run between London and Newcastle was started.
Since its foundation in Britain in 18(32, the Surgical Aid Society has supplied nearly a million and aquarter surgical appliances to needy people.
A square fife, invented after forty years of experiment, is said to be an advance on the normal round fife so far as tone and carrying power are concerned.
Blocks in the form of a cross found on the site of Rieh'borongh Castle, are believed to have formed the foundations of a triumphal arch of the Romans.
Women are losing ground numerically, in Britain. Last year, per 10,000 of the population, the males increased by 52, while the females increased by only 40.
. In the interior of Sumatra rice is sown by women who let their hair hang loose down the back, in order that the Tice may grow luxuriantly and have long stalks. » Petrol pumps of a new design have been installed at Windsor Castle, Sandringham, and Marlborough House .for use in the Royal garages. These pumps measure accurately to within eight drops. The first Japanese to lie buried in the soil of the Irish Free State, is Asagiro Sugetsugu, a seaman on bond the Japanese corn ship Kinkasaumaru, who was suffocated on that vessel by a fall of corn.
There is gold in sea water, but (lie average concentration of the precious metal in 5000 samples analysed was only about one onelmndredth of a milligram, or three millionths of an ounce to the ton.
'Sneezing protects the nose, coughing protects the throat, and the tickled body struggles against an enemy embrace. The ribs, loins, abdomen and neck are most effectively tickled by a tooth-shaped body. Two men in a hotel at Beeston, Nottingham, on raising their glasses saw diamond rings worth £SO in one glass. Tlie landlady came in at, that moment to explain that they were her rings, placed 1 there for safety.
Measuring 0 feet in length, the skeleton of a prehistoric crocodile has been discovered at a depth of 50 feet in Oxford clay at Eastwood brickyards, near Peterborough. It is probably from one* to two million years old. \
The first thimble was made in the year 1684, hut devices of an apparently similar pattern have been found in Egyptian ruins. In 1693, John Lofting, a Dutch inventor, was granted a patent to make thimbles by machinery. Fifty-four applicants for the secretaryship of the Glamorgan branch of the National Farmers’ Union at a salary of £3 per week included a former manager of a Cuban sugar plantation, an Oxford University B.Sc., a former army transport officeiq an ex-town councillor, and a university student. - High fees are paid to big con-
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