NEWS IN BRIEF.

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1918, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

iveul churches hold .special "alioimeiueers bt'ivicoa. x>fciliu chemists advertise a drug lu utaucii me paugs ui Hunger. uuiing tne war twelve ±<rench deputies nave given their lives lor nance. Something like 8,000,000 ions ui eoul is annually consumed in London. i-or playing "Thais" for a cinema nlm Miss Mary Garden received £20,000. There is a run on grocers empty boxes in England for making rabbit-hutches. Chairs are being' experimentally made of paper, twisted and reinforced with steel rods. It requires an average of more than twenty million pins per day to supply tile British people. There is a 250-year-old pear tree at Giyude, Sussex, which still bears truit heavily each year. In place of jam, dates _ and oranges are now periodically issued to our troops in France at tea-time. Three women grave-diggers :\re to be employed at Peterborough cemetery, England, during the summer. Milk, according to an authority, appeases hunger more quickly and satisfactory than any other food. Orders have been issued in Warwickshire for the breaTungup of :U,OOO acres of grass land for cultivation. If you save the ash of all the cigars you smoke you will nave consumed 1000 be Lore you have a pound of ash. The depth of water has a great influence on the speed of steamers, the vessels moving' more slowly in shallow water. ]>y an alteration in the size of L.C.C. tramway tickets one.hundred tons of paper pulp will be saved annually. Friends can now send prisoners of war interned in Holland not more than £'2s a head per month, by money-order. It is estimated that the revenue derived from the duty of Id on cheques in Britain was, in the last financial year, £1,348,000. The largest winged insect in the world is the atlas ninth of Central Brazil. Its wings extend fourteen inches from tip to tip. Private Jlritland, East Lancashire Regiment, lias had a piece of shrapnel extracted from his heart while in Leeds Infirmary. The number of Dover men who have joined the services is greater in proportion than i\w number from auv other town in England. Tlie women of Bermuda are noted for their fine complexions, This is partly accounted for the fact that they cat plentifully of onions. "Any raw? Any old iron'.'"' eliant"d the denier as ho knocked at the suhiivbnn villii. Tin* man "f tho house himself -ipened t'io door. '"X". Oo away," li" snapped irritnhly. "There's nothing f" r von. Mv wife i>s away." The itinerant merchant.' hesitated a moment, and then inquired: "Any old bottles?'