NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3754, 14 February 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Palmerston North is agitating for a new police station. v

An east wind with a touch of the north in it is said to depress people more than anything els» It lowers the vitality of the body and depreciates the activity of the roost important organs.

The term hall-mark for silver articles was derived from the fact that gold and silver articles were

originally all assayed and marked at the Company Hall of the Guild of Gold and Silversmiths. The River Trent Avas restocked last year with 5000 roach and perch taken from the Birmingham Corporation’s reservois and conveyed to Nottingham in basketshaped tanks by motor-car. The “science of phrenology” had its origin toAvard the end of the eighteenth century, and Avas the result of great acuteness of perception in a German schoolboy named Franz Joseph Gall.

“Health detectives” watch over the London docks, inspecting every alien and every cargo which Avould enter. In the last tAvelve months these officials, comprising doctors and inspectors, examined nearly 21,000 aliens in 768 ships. Motoring on a race-track is most dangerous at a speed of ..forty-five miles an hour. A medical Avitness in a recent inquest in England, said that Avhen accidents happened at ninety miles an hour motorists usually escaped Avith bruises only. Every citizen of Montpellier, France, claims that he is entitled to call himself a baron. In 1537 the Baron de Caravette avlio lived in Montpellier, bequeathed his title and estates to the city. Hence, it is argued, every child born in the city may adopt the title. A Wanganui resident Avorking in his garden, Avent to . get a few mouthfuls of Avater out of a tap. He felt something Avriggle in his mouth and spat it out quickly, and to his surprise it Avas a very small eel. The tuna evidently had a long trip doAvn from O.kehu, and was quite lively Avhen put into a dish of water.—-‘Herald.