NEWS IN BRIEF.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLVI, Issue 78, 2 April 1920, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

During the. war Great Britain provided' €4,000,000 shirts for the forces.

Steamers are estimated to be 20 per cent, safer 'than sailing vessels. Over a third of the population of Dublin consists of families living in a single room.

The motor car carries iinore passengers than all the steam railroads in the United States.

"Soviet," in its original meaning of a '' council," was used in Servia as long ago as 1805.

Over 2,000,000 children, between the ages of 10 and 16, work in the United States,

Harnessed to a tiny waggon, a fly has drawn 170 times its own weight over smooth surfaces.

On am average 1000 cases of ohampagnc are being loaded daily at Folke stone from Franc© to London.

Under English common law the shorethat lies between low and high tide 'belongs to the Crown,

The journey from London to 'Paris by air takes 2$ hours compared with seven 'hours by land and sea. The Cuban 'workmen can turn out 100 cigars a day each, all identical in shape, size and weight, without using any mould or pattern.

English is spoken by more than double as many people as French. The figures French, 70,000,000. The crater of iMauna Loa, Hawaii's famous volcano, is 20 miles in diameter. At times tfho stream of lava issuing from it is 50 miles long. Of the tobacco consumed in Great Britain, 77 per cent, is made into cigarettes, 20 per cent, is smoked in pipes, and 3 per cent, in cigars. The mildest mining camp known is at Cobalt, Canada, where there has never becu a liquor saloon, and gambling in public has 'been prohibited. The medal for the Culloden was the first to 'be provided with a ribbon of definite pattern. Before then each wearer suspended (his decoration with any sort of ribbon 'he pleased. At the signing of the armistice the total of German 'bombing and scouting aeroplanes had fallen to 1700; while the Allies 'had three machines on the front to the Germans' one. In Lancashire there are reported to bo many quaint names on the registers, and a few are worthy of repetition:— Bill Tcacack, (Rhubarb Jack, Toffee Tongue, Harry Mechanic, and Squinting Tommy. WHOOPING COUGH. Whopping cough starts with a cold and develops a cough. There is little, if any, danger from this disease if the cough is kept loose and expectoration easy, which can always be done by giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It also liquefies the tough, tenacious mucus, making it easier to expectorate. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy can be given to the youngest and most delicate child, as it contains nothing that is in any way injurious. Sold by G, W. Hutchins, chemist. Full advantage is being taken of the opportunity of securing letters of naturalisation now again available to aliens. The list published in last week's Gazette contains 51 names, the nationalities of the applicants being as follows: Belgian 1, Danish 11, Swedish 9, Nor wegian 8, French 1, Russian 7, Italian 4, Greek 1, Swiss 7, Chinese 1, American (U.S.) 1.