NEWS IN BRIEF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 96, 11 April 1908, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Human hair to the value of nearly it million pounds is annually sold in I'* ranee. The Prince of Wales spends most of his leisure in reading and in posting stamps in his album. -V haiul-wliistle has just been pr jduccd by 11 liirniinghani linn to carry a distance of two miles. Xo heat accompanies Ihe light entitle I by the glow-worm, and naturalists Have not yet solved its cause. The Kaiser lias had a sundial erected in his garden, with the inscription: "! count only happy hours," Hrandy and water is supplied free ol charge to ail members r,f the Belgian Parliament who make a long speech. A new hotel for Kuropeans has just been erected near Jerusalem. Most of it was' built bv women paid at the rate of ii'/nl a day'. In Vienna there is a highly efficient voluntary street ambulance society. Their services were mpiired last- year no fewer than :i(!.noO times. Ccrtnan military experts say that, in the event of war, London would he captured in Iwo days. Austria has passed a new law rainvvt'ry vi a vote to \uo Only on.- man in ovovy Immlrnl in i Ih i Czar's armv possesses a ImndkorTilt' apvif! l ol' Mrilisli-cniiiilil -ahuon is Clio a ton. The awrajiv )s tons. It h ralriilatiMl tliat tin' ainonni >prm In rtilviTl isiiiLf in in a!"»ut f'.IU.IIIHI rvorv day. At riiH-u-jo ( C.S.) a milking mm-liim-was cxliibiicil llial milked six nr out' time. A luM'd of seventy-livo i-o\\ wan milked in 4") minnti-s. two lads uporating il. Within one square mile of (he City of London there are -131) full-licensed houses. ,"i7 wine altd beer on, 252 beer, wine, and spirits oil', and 3 houses licensed for billiards only.