NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 1914, 7 September 1921, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Annually, for over 40 a flock of magnificent snow fyoe.se, each averaging 81b in weight, has made Cape Tournament, Canada, one of its regular stopping points on its northern migration. Close protection is having ijs effect, p.nd this year the flock numbered over 5000 members.

About three hundred years ago in England, the death penary was imposed for forgery, but the law was altered and modified in 1887. In earlier times still the punishment was standing in the pillory, having both ears cut off, having the nostrils slit up and seared, the forfeiture of land, and perpetual Imprisonment. In the occupied zone of the Dardanelles, 50 armed brigands held up a British private transport company's motor-omnibus. After they had stolen all the passengers' money and goods, their motoring curios ty got the better of them, and they compelled the driver to give them half an hour's trial ride.

Ruins of a prehistoric-city have been discovered by Professor Carl Blcgen, of the American Archaeological School, at Athens. The city he has found was situated between Corinth and Mycenae, in southern Greece and pottery and fragments of statuary unearthed, fix the date of its prosperity at about 2000 B.C. The great military base at Kantara, from which the British built a military railway through the desert to Palestine, is being dismantled. During the war the .Suez Canal was crossed 4>y a largo swing bridge, which also is now being dismantled. Connection between the Egyptian railways and the new line to Palestine will be maintained by means of a tunnel which will be built below the Suez Canal.

There are 18 known successful methods of removing tattoo decorations, all more or less painful and inconvenient. The chemicals used are salicylic acid, silver nitrate, carbolated vaseline and tannin. The treatment should be administered by a surgeon, as amateur efforts invariably achieve more or less serious results in such cases.

A sight-saving class has been formed in a school in Canada. I> is located in a large and specially lighted room, and there are a dozen pupils to start with. Ordinary text-books are done away with and special books with very large type (24-point typo) are usod. Pen and ink as well as white paper are discarded. Instead soft pencils and a cream shade of paper with green lines ar used.

That the ancient stiff corset has gone for ever is the unanimous opinion of the leading Paris fashion houses. "To return to the high, stiff corsets Is impossible in the present age of sport and dancing," it is declared. But several dress designers, including the famous houses of Worth and Paquin, while condemning the old "armoured" bono corset, strongly advocates the use of the modern ribless corset which has supplanted it.

Relic of hidden cities of a long-lost civilisation were revealed at the sale of the. Amherst collection of Egyptian and Oriental antiquities by Hotheby Wilkinson, and Hodge, New Bond St.,' W. London. The most beautiful piece was a feminine figure in mummy form known as "She," which was sold for, £26. Women joined eagerly in the bidding, and one took a fancy to a large mummy cat and kittens, which were sold for £2/10. The French Senate has just agreed to a project converting the water power of the River Rhone, which when completed will produce a force approximating 1,000,000 horsepower The work is described as the "most important economic Avork of the twentieth century," and will makei possible the electrification of the' Paris, Lyon, and Mediterranean Railway, and form a new source of electric power and illumination for. Paris, j