NEWS IN BRIEF

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3174, 6 December 1927, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Artificial heating of the ocean is. to be tried at Westerland, Germany, to provide bathing all the year round. Huge electric heaters will raise the water's temperature.

It costs Britain £60 a year to educate a blind child; a physically normal child costs £16 at an elementary school, £27 at a central school, and £41 at a secondary school.

Mr L. Davy, an Islington licensed victualler, lately received a picture postcard, sent to him by his brother on September 12, 1908. The writer has been dead for 15 years.

According to a scientist, the average amount of absolute rest during a night's sleep is only eleven and a half minutes, there being muscular or mental action during the remainder of the time.

Although there are 42,000 pay accounts fewer to handle now than in 1913, the Accountant-General's Department at the British Admiralty has grown from 347 in 1917 to 610 to-day.

Fitted with sleeping accommodation for four people, a new luxury aeroplane has been built for a Belgian millionaire. There is also a toilet room complete with wash-basins and mirrors.

A peacock is unable to distinguish one colour from another. It is said that birds that fly by day see everything a bright" reddish orange. Night birds, however, see blue and violet.

There are more than 207 people in America who pay tax on net incomes of over £300,000. Of these, 96 are in New York. Three women reported incomes of from £600,000 to £800,000 each. Seagulls' eggs, similar in size and shape to hens' eggs, but dull sea-green in colour, with brown splashes, are imported to England in small quantities from Denmark. They find a ready sale among hotels and restaurants.