NEWS IN BRIEF

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3233, 3 July 1928, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Samples of Belgian hosiery recently exhibited in Brussels were made entirely from waste cuttings and floor sweepings. Thousands of .the best grade of foreign eggs are used-in the best British hotels and restaurants. They arc quite good eggs and keep the Brtish product off the market. • Moths are a e.onstant danger to the exhibits in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, where over £100 a year is spent in camphor to ward the pests oft*. Special crossword puzzles in which letters are "pegged" into squares on cardboard forms, arc being made in Paris for the use of blind people. Writing with the fingernail «.s a pen is an old Persian art, a splendid specimen of which has been presented to the .King by the King of Afghanistan. Built at Seleombe, Devon, ' in 1811, the 52-ton kedge, Ceres, is believed to be Britain's oldest sea-going ship. She plies between Bude and Cardiff. Sixteen submarine cables, linking up all parts of the world, are joined to the Azores, where the cable is nicknamed the "Charing Cross of the Atlantic." New recruits in the City of London Police must be six feet in height/ the standard having been recently raised to this, the old figure. Digging common briars from hedgerows, wrapping the roots in straw, and hawking them from door to door as "rose-trees" is- one of the newest forms of fraud in Britain. Motor-boating is gaining in popularity in Britain owing to the crowded roads. A good river craft can be bought for £330, while a sea-cruising vessel to carry six will cost £850.