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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 44, 16 November 1925, Page 9

A correspondent travelling through an Austrian railway station in the Salzkammergut states that there is a stationmaster who loves the sparrows find has given them names. He calls Haus, and Hans comes; he calls Fritz, and Fritz comes; and so oU. The clever little birds not only know their names but are so tame that they often perch on the stationmaster’s shoulder, and sometimes cover him all over.

By using a new rapid-hardening cement, workmen, employed at the new Waterloo bridge, London, on a job below high water-mark, were able to beat the tide The run-away for the big middle span had to rets on a low-lying buttress, and, in order to give this a flat top, the engineers decided to grout it with cement. The work was carried out at low tide, and the grouting was found to be quite hard by the time the water reached it on the flood.