NEWS IN BRIEF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 36, 1 February 1908, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'I In.' proper betvvwii the eyes .'i tin- width ill' one eye. Vegetarians have, a> a rule, clearer complexions than people who eat animal lood. In making champagne thp grapes are squeezed six times, each pressure making wine ol diil'ereiu quality. to jiroteet the interests of unmarried nun. a journal entitled "The liaehelor " is to he jmhlisned at Fragile. It is believed that a diet of corn-bread makes bigger men physically than bread n.ade front wheat-Hour. A representation of the old London llrid*e is to be one of the features of ihe Franco JSrilish Exhibition at Shepherd's liu>li. In llerlin the pawnshop is a Koyal ana pliilanthro|]ie institution. Any prolit that is made is spent on charity. line test for distinguishing diamonds from glas„ and paste is to touch them with the tongue. The diamond feels much colder. England is the only country where members of Parliament are nut only unpaid, but have no special rights or lu Jewish marriages the bride is always placed on the right of the bridegroom. With every other nation of the world her plait' ill the ceremony is on Ihe left.

There are part- of i-jiain where the lia! is unknown, except in pictures. The men, when they need a. covering, lie 0)1 their heads, anil the women use Mowers. An express engine consumes on an average ten gallons of water per mile. On an average 7UO British subjects arc yearly Iku'u at sea. Ocean waves have often dashed over lin- tops of lightnouses. .Many animal-, in desert regions never linvc any water except the dew on vegeu.tion. ,„ Al An automatic delivery company is now putting packets of cigarettes on the mar. l.i'i. including with each an insurance policy for ,U,OuU The skull consists of twenty-two separate bone,-, eight of which form the ciallium, the remainder entering into tin- composition of the face. In ancient and more simple times it was llie custom never to ahave. For lour hundred years there was no such thing as a barber heard of in ltome. The relative strength of the Ueets ;.i lli.- Powers are stated to be in the following order: (I rent Britain, United Male-; France, Germany, and Japan. Telegraph wires will last for forty years near the sea-shore, but in the manufacturing district-* tin- same wires will last only ten veurs, and sometimes I.—. Tin- dolphin is a vveatherwise hah. I luring a lierce gale or storm at sea the mariner know, that the end is near if he can »ee a dolphin sporting on the high wave-.

The U'-ult ol tests carried out in the Lei-man army prove.- that GSlb. is the oiil-idc weight the average soldier .an cany on a day', march without in jimng lli.- heart. The thumb I- stronger than all the other ling.-i- together. The "ak and the elm are mteii struck b. lightnm- and J.-tiovcl. but the bee. 1,/ il ,- -.,i,|. never. I ..in l.rollier- named Miewan. w!io ...n-l,e.| and lived on the rami- fain, f,,r -vein-, nine year-, have l„,t|, died at the -am.- hour ai San Jose, L'alilornia. Librarians in many part:, of London agree Unit the public taste for the reading of action is showing a verv decided falling-oil. ami that the popularity of works of travel, hii-iory. and biography i- e.,rre.-pon.ling inciea-ing. K.ery game bring- its Jjiab"l" ha- iMo.luccl ji„ „!„.,.;.,[ , 11;1 | a( | v __. in- -praincl wrist. If V ou 1,„1,| the -H.-k- illem-l-eelly -t„„ .tuT| V -file COII- - playing c.ui-es a bone to gel out "I joint, re-ultiiig in .-, -piained wri-t. "ii a very clear, starry night about -■""" -lar- may nfiiiii'timcs In- seen bv ill., naked ey,. in the northern hemisphere, but .-oiint.-le-s numbers arc brought inio view by a j.owerful t.-lc-•Niowilakes contain about nine limes ,i- many volumes of air, entangled, -o I" -peak, among their crystals, as they contain water; -o that a fall of ,now i'•" in.he, (Jeep is about equivalent to en inch of rain.

The human skeleton cOiteM, of sonic '-"" '""""'• though the number of sepa'■ii- li-uic. varies „( different times of hi-. I'.»ne- which are distinct in early hi| - be-ome fused in ,dd age. Tl "• ''" -'i'- "" '* 'l'iilc a dMin.-t -I I '' l "'-- I"' IT descended lion, lhe li'Vl'tuu .at. wliieh wa- eeiiainly do--1 li'-ated more than li.lKlu y,, ;lr .' ~,,„ and worshipped in s„m c cities. ull( | LM|| ' I'"!'".'-'! after death. The eat wa. do-me-teat cd in kui-ope mo,-,. || m , ._.„„„

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