NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3549, 12 October 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Iron ore of excellent quality has been discovered in Cuba. More than 793 distinct species of roses are known to science.

Valued at £2OOO, a private collector in Britain has 16,000 moths. It is estimated that 8,000,000 meteors strike the earth every day. Spain devotes more than 3,500,000 acres of land to olive culture.

Thirty million dozen eggs are exported from the United States annually.

Ditches of water instead of fences keep the cows in Holland in their pastures.

Thin slads of cork are used in Rome as a substitute for straw in making hats. Devil fish, weighing up to 2001 b. are sometimes caught off the coast of Japan. Cannons loaded with sand are used to break up swarms of locusts in Costa Rica.

Cairo, Egypt, now has more news papers than any other city of its size in the world.

When members of certain African tribes go into mourning they paint) their bodies white. '

It is estimated that there arc 170,000,000 cells in the lungs of mi ordinary adult. Mice which aro' smaller than bees have been received at the London Zoo from Western Africa.

A toy balloon released by Miss Gladys Smith' at Tenterden, Kent, landed 1,100 miles away in Algeria. “Sterling” means a coin of true weight, and is derived from the “Easterlings,” German traders who coined pure money in England in the thirteenth century.

The name of the street where the Bank of England stands was originally Threadneedle Street. The property was owned by the Needlemakers’ Company, whose arms were three needles.

The strength' of empty half pint bottles was demonstrated recently when four of them were used to support a wooden platform upon which an elephant weighing 13,000 lbs was sitting.

It is common knowledge to Arctic and Antarctic explorers that sea icci more than a year old is entirely free from salt, although new ice contains the same proportion of sail ns sea water.

The Jewish population of the world is estimated at 15,430,000. Poland and Ukraine each has 3,300,000, while there are 3,100,000 in the United States, 900,000 in Russia and 300,000 in the British Isles.

By winning a Junior County scholarship, Mark Green, a young pupil of the Dempsey Street School, Whitechapel, has kept up a remarkable family tradition. Four of his brothers and three of his sisters have all won similar scholarships. The term infantry was originally applied to a body of men collected by the Infante (heir-apparent) of Spain for the purpose of rescuing his father from the Moors. The attempt being successful, the name afterwards applied to foot soldiers in general. Four thousand Mozambique natives are reported to have been devoured by wild beasts, chiefly maneating lions, in the last twelve months, according to a despatch from Loureneo Marques, and* the authorities are pushing on a scheme for the wholesale slaughter of these carnivora.

Run entirely by girls, each of whom is a shareholder, an engineering business in Britain is now in its fifth year. It was established by women engineers who found themselves unemployed at the end of the war.