News in Brief

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1918, Page 1

News in Brief

A sergeant in the Chertsey (Surrey) Volunteers walked over 50 miles in a recent week between his home and the headquarters to attend drills.

Artificial legs and arms were In use in Egypt as early as 700 B.C. They were made by the priests, who wore the physicians of that early time.

It is stated that the stained glass windows in Cologne Cathedral are being replaced by ordinary glass as a precautionary measure against air raids. Contractions of the stomach wall cause the sensation of hunger, and these contractions may be measured. Tightening a belt actually lessens the feeling df hunger.

At one station hut alone, somewhere in France, during the month of August, tho Y.M.C.A. gave away to troops who wore travelling 119,680 cups of hot tea and coffee.

A nurse giving evidence in the Shoreditch County Court, London, said she was standing in a tramway-car, having given her seat to a soldier, "as most women do nowadays."

For an Aberdeen August five-year-old cow belonging to Lord Rosebcry £609 was paid at a sale at Aberdeen, and £SSB was paid for a seven-year-old cow of the same herd.

London is mentioned by Bede as the metropolis of the East Saxons, in the year 504, lying on the banks of the Thames, "the emporium of many people coming by sea and land.''

Weighing 21b 13%0z, a potato grown by Mr A. Bonhain on a Wandsworth (England) allotment, was the winner of the first prize in the Vacant Land Cultivation Society's competition.

The full moon is 8.7 times brighter than tho moon in first quarter, and 10 times brighter than in,last quarter; the latter because tho last quarter shows more dark patches than the first.

A Danish inventor, it is announced, has discovered a process for making newsprint paper from seaweed. The new process is said to entail half the cost of making paper from wood pulp.

< The Pamirs, sometimes called the "Roof of tho World," consist of a number of bleak plateaux and shallow valleys situated about 13,000 ft above sea level. They lie to tho north of India.

Laboratory experiments with a lead target riddled with bullets have produced a surface so closlcy resembling the moon's as to revive the old theory that the moon's "volcanoes" were caused by the impact of meteors.-

The report of Mr W. Walker, Acting Chief-Inspector of Mines in Great Britain, shows that 095,063 persons were employed in mines in 1916, against 053.042 in 1015. The*output of coal was 256,375,360 tons, against 253,206,081 in 1915.

A Chilian ship, the Puerto Moritt, changed hands just before the war for £3000. She has now been sold again at Seattle for £25,000. In the last three years she has earned her value in 1914 over and over again, her last voyage bringing in £4000.

The executive committcc of the Navy League in England lias passed a resolution asking the Admiralty to award a medal to all naval men who were afloat in tlic earlier part of the war, on the. same principle as to officers and men of the Expeditionary Force up to and including the first battle of Ypres. An English paper to hand tolls of a grocer and a tin of jam. By regulations he was supposed to sell the jam at 9Jd. He charged the customer Is Id. The grocer was lined £25, and the assistant who actually effected the sale was fined £5. Following is a summary of casualty lists of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces up to 21st January:—Officers: Killed, 322; died of wounds,- 137; wounded, 1132. Other ranks: Killed: 6502; died of wounds, 2636; wounded. 27,532.