NEWS AND NOTES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9632, 12 June 1919, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES

Treatment" by electric sparks has been successful in restoring speech to dumb Italian soldiers. An officer with great experience of army horses says that roans are the hardest, the best-looking, most eventenrpered, and easiest xo train. It is said that there are to-day in various European convents -more than 30 princesses,, members of' many of the great ruling houses in .Europe. Although ridiculed a.s a craze it is a scientific fact that sour milk conduces to longevity. The. I'-.uicidc rate, of Germany was, before tho war. the highest in the world—2l per 109.000 yearly. Lumber production iv the United States in 1918 was 3.000,000,000 ft. less than the 1917 production. Ita'.v is to have a new nort- near Voltri", Gun' of Genoa, to_ cost £5,800,COO and to be completed in. 12 years. Britain sacrificed one-half her merchant marine and two-thirds at least of her foreign trade during the war. Xew Soy.th "Wales Chive rum en t is arranging io Mttlo 200 returned .soldiers in vim yards on the Hunter River. English favm«jirodnce 1.0,50.000 tons of inea-t aunuaUy. which is. just .sufficient to give a pound a week to"each person. A flowering plant, according to scientists, abstracts from the soil 200 times its own w-rkrht in water during its life.