NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4488, 7 August 1930, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Tlio ill’sv serial story ever published started in Ihe T.omlon Post for October 7, 17.1 if. It was "JJoliinson IC'rusoe.” Bournemouth has bill one street so described —Orchard Street, all c,l her thoroughfares being mads, a venues, drives, ele. .Mrs. Emily Wheeler, aged 85, who died recently at Slough, England, was a domestic servant in one fstmilv for (55 years.

The .Olympic arrived at I'hcrbinirg, France, recently, with is2<l kegs of g< >l.l valued at fd,200.00(1, from Xew York for Paris.

A traveller, nimble lo find other accommodation, was charged !)d for bed and breakfast ai the BefkLainsied Workhouse, in England.

A turntable tins been installed in a “blind” street in Central London lo enable motorists lo get' out willi<.ui backing into a busy street. Fish of wonderful colours, including cobalt blue and yellow streamers and pillar box red, have recently arrived al Ihe London Zoo from Bermuda.

A niolor-ear on ti road near Loudon had at the back a placard with the words “Learner” in large letters, and the “saLVty-Jirsf triangle underneath. The adulteration of milk is inereusing in tlreai Britain. A recent report shows 8.2 per cent, of rnilk samples adulterated, as compared' with (i.ll two years ago.

While Ihe total out 111 of clothing worn by a modern girl may weigh as little as fib. lioz., hot father’s e lot lies will turn the scales-af anything from 6if lb. to 1011 b. The handwriting- of a woman is usually curved, conventional, and uniform, Thai oil a. man is angular, irregular, unconventional, and olleii written with an individual sla lit. Hat sizes are. fixed by measuring the length, inside, from front to hae'k, and the middle width. Add the Iwo measurements and divide lie Iwo. The result is the size.

First Division League football clubs will play evening matches at the stadium, Wembley, London, by artificial light next winter, if a suggested tournament plan is carried through. Straw hats are si ill fa von rile summer wear for the men of the l. r niled Stales, and this year an n(teuipl is to he made to popularise them in such colours as yellow, green, and blue. Taxi-cabs in Berlin are being equipped with metres that deliver to the passenger a receipt on which is printed the name and address of Ihe owner of the cab, its number, and the amount of the fare.

Forty-six storeys in height, and containing 25,000 rooms, each Jitfed with wireless and telephone, a new hotel now being built in New York at a cost of £8,000,000 will be the most luxurious in the world. Since earliest times bells have been regarded as charms to keep away evil. Even the baby's rattle was not originally a plaything, but a tiny bell intended purely as a protection against evil spirits. A quaint old custom was observed at Queen’s College, Oxford, when the bursar, after dinner in the hall, presented each guest with a needle and thread, with the admonition, “Take this, and he thrifty.” New York City’s East Side Las a store established more than 00 years ago which sells wearing apparel to stout men exclusively. The proprietor is himself plump, and his policy is to hire only portly men as clerks.

The profits from the forests owned by a small city in Germany not only pay all the municipal expenses, but leave a surplus, and recently each inhabitant received the stun of 00 marks and three loads of wood. A man convicted of begging at Hyde, England, admitted that; lie had a motor-car, had written the police a cheque for £SO to bail himself out, and owned local property, lie said that lie was also negotiating a. £SOO transaction.