NEWS IN BRIEF

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1936, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF

Lessons in how to laugh are a daily feuture in one Bristol school.

Britain’s millionaires have decreased from 819 in 1929 to 'l2B to-day.

Cinematographs have been installed in 120 Methodist churches in England.

In Britain there are 6,660,009 ealtle, 16,327,000 sheep, 3,320,000 pigs, and 886,000 horses.

Human “freaks’’ are commonest in Hungary, which provides five for every one from the rest of Europe.

London is the best-dressed city in the world, so far as its men are concerned, according to one German expert.

Among Yorkshire’s freak clubs is one the members of which meet and play the card game; Snap, for six hours at a time.

In order to pay his fine a Prague thief stole tfye gold-mounted fountainpen of the magistrate who had just convicted hjiii.

Coloured glass oottles protect the food they contain. Brown is said to benefit milk, while fruit : uices keep best in green glass.

Glass bricks are to be built into whole walls for the new health centre in Finsbury, London. By this means the maximum ot sunlight is fidfnittsd.

Bars, libraries, and card-r6oms are features of the newest cross-Channel aeroplanes, which are expected to do the trip from London to Paris in one hour.

Last season the Arsenal Association Football Club made a profit of about £40,000. For the last seven years their profits have totalled just under £200,000.

Hundreds of British babies have been adopted by Dutch foster-parents and taken to Holland, as the Dutch law does not allow the adoption of children there. ■"? ' •, . .

. Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony is being; usfd .as a “drug” by an American dentist. He finds it lessens the paii} felt by patients when having their teeth -stopped.

Germany is the biggest customer for the scrap metal which is being obtained fronj the battleships surrendered after the Grpat War, and which were scuttled in'Scapa Flow. , ,

No matter in which month a child may have been born in Japan, he is reckoned to be one year old on the following January 1. So that day is everybody’s birthday.

About half a million London slum dwellers * have been moved to decent homes, and Sir Kingsley WoVJ estimates that 350,000 new houses are still needed to complete the slum clearance schemes.

In the last eight years one Russian government official has been married 58 times and divorced 57 times. He has 102 children. Now he has tried to divorce his s§tn wife. But the application has been refused.

A staunch teetotaler owes his life to an empty rum cask. A Wallin°ton man was returning from Canada when the

ship sank, after a collision in .the St. Lawrence River. He< kept himself afloat by forcing his hand into the bung-hole of a rum cask.