NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2168, 26 August 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The United Slates now lias 19 national parks. Strawberries contain more than HO per cent, water. There are 30,000 dependent blind persons in Britain. The second greatest copper mines in the world are in Alaska. France is preparing for 200,000 American tourists this year. Nearly 15.000.000 acres in Canada are (leveled to wheat growing Aerial '“taxi-cab" firms are being registered in Western Canada. The Island of .Manhattan, in New York City, contains 2,281,44! population. A baby’s brain grows more in the tirsl year than in all its remaining life. Westminster Abbey costs thousands of pounds annually to be kept in repair. An ounce of gold leaf, rolled out, would cover the Hour of a room 14 teel square. The mills of the .United States ( onsnmed (17,000.000 pounds of wool during April. Next to cotton, more pounds of jute arc manufactured each year limn of any other (Hire. Nearly all .Japanese soldiers arc expert gymnasts, and every barracks has a gymnasium. In .March last, British Treasury notes to the value of 1335,000,000 were in circulation. The French Slate railway U using demobilised war-trained dogs to guard goods in transit. Two per cent, of the population of the United States, it is said, owns ill) per cent, of its wealth. The total estimates agricultural wealth of the Dominion of Canada for 1010 amotints to .11 ,-175,850.000. Spain is building (he hugest concrete ships in the world, one of (i.OOO ions having been launched recently. During 101!) more than 110,000 Packers, or about one mil of live, in the United States, dropped out of the profession. Brazilian exports to England in 1010 amounted to £10,522,(111, to France £27,207,743: and to Germany, £70,1.492. Spain irrigates only (i per cent, of its cultivated land, but the irrigated sections produce about onefourlh of the country’s crops. It is said that the railway losses from passengers not paying their fares amount in the United Kingdom to half a million pounds a year. The DIO report of I lie Liverpool Corporation Tramways mentions the fact that during the year, 32,(1D articles were left on the cars. The smallest tree in the world is the Greenland 'birch. Its height is less than 3 inches, yet it covers a radius of between 2 feet and 3 feet. Out of the £9,590,294 spent by the London County Council on elementiry education, £7,128,885 is paid away in salaries to tea fitters. The pineapple industry of Hawaii has increased from 2,000 cases of twenty-four cans each, to more than 5,000,000 eases, or 120,000,000 cans yearly. Four lumps of sugar contain as much nourishment as a mediumsized potato. A pound of sugar will yield as much bodily energy as half a pound of butler. The average price of a. best quality British-made worsted suit is approximately £OO in New York, £52 10s in Paris, £2OO in Berlin, and £35 in Montreal. The city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is claiming £0,400,000 as compensation for the explosion of the inanition ship which ruined half the city, killed 1,200 people, and made 25,000 homeless. Nottingham, which has earned the reputation of being a well-light-ed city, has decided to abolish street, lighting for three months, in order to save twopence in the £ on'the rates.