BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14512, 2 November 1910, Page 12

BREVITIES

An English medical authority says that carrots, raw and baked, arc invaluable, for caiTots make good red blood.

Tlio amount of tho people’s savings hold by tho British Post Office reached, at the end of last year, tho enormous total of £164,596,065. Over 10,000 new books—a record—were published in Great Britain in 1909. There was a falling off in poetry, the drama, law, and education. In some parts of China, if a man fails to pay his debts, his creditors carry away one of his doors, thus permitting evil spirits to enter. Professor E. H. Starling, of University College, London, has been awarded the Astloy Cooper prize of £3OO at Guy’s Hospital, for investigations into the physiology of digestion. Rev. L. C. Wood, incumbent of Singleton. Sussex, who is now the oldest vicar in England, was present recently at tho opening of the Blackpool Agricultural Show. Ho is in Ins ninetysecond year. “The Union of South Africa,” and not “ United South Africa,” is the correct title of the new Dominion, according to an answer returned _ by tho Under-Secretary for the Colonies in recent parliamentary papers. The famous Stavelot tryptych, recently douosited in tho British Museum by Mr Pierpont Morgan, is now on view in the Medieval Gallery. It contains relics of tho True Cross, and was made in 1180 by Godfrey de Clare. Cleopatra’s Needle, on the Thames Embankment, is to he carefully examined and reported on by experts. It is believed that its decay in the cold, acid London atmosphere is now proceeding faster than before the last survey. Mr N. W. Thomas, Goverfiment, 'Anthropologist in Southern Nigeria, stated in a lecture at the Royal United Service Institute, London, that a reed instrument played in Nigeria produced exactly the' same effect as the Scottisli bagpipes.