NEWS IN BRIEF.

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 April 1918, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

X-ray treatment of ringworm of the scalp is, in competent hands, the speediest and surest method. It should on!/ be trusted to those especially trained. The title of doctor was invented for the especial benefit of. the learned filernius of the. twelfth century. The title was conferred by the University of Bologna. The intensity of the radiation of heat and light from the sun appears to be not uniform but variable, a fact that must have a profound effect on the earth's weather. The Government requirements of ashtrees for aeroplanes for twelve months are 200,000 trees. In the last few weeks between 3000 and 4000 have been offered by patriotic persons. For keeping out the cold, an inventor uses a double window, the panes being hermetically sealed, containing carbon dioxide, a gaa which transmits heat about half as well as air. A woman in London has just died ' t the age of 94. When she was 20 her' father refused to allow her to marry the man of her choice. She went to bed, and staved there for. 74 years. The fashion of using platinum in iewellery lr-s made it five times as valuable' as gold, and has made it more difficult to produce sulphuric acid, used in the

making of high explosives. Catalysis is the propeity of matter which promotes chemical action though itself remaining unaffected, and certain biologists trace to this property all the endlessly intricate phenomena of life. Sanderton (Bucks) Workhouse having been commandeered by the military, the contents of the institution have been sold by auction. The workhouse nearse fetched £7 and twelve pairs of boots £i 10s.