NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 6 March 1912, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A London motor omnibus earns on the' average lid per mile. Russia has fewer doctors than any other civilised country. In Great Britain and Ireland there'arft ; over 90,000 public houses. ■ ' In the last 45 years the population of Spain has increased only 3,0C0,C00. In Norway married couples may travel on the railways for fare and a-half. There are at the present time oyer 2-I,CCO varieties of postage stamps in the world n Gold can be beaten so thin that' it would take 282,000 leaves to produce a pile an inch thick. A persoiV usually begins to lose height at the age of 50. and at the age 9 1 90 .has lost at least l£in. Experiment has proved that every..ton of coal burned makes unfit for breathing .400,000 cubic feet of air. . , Isaac Mason, aged 70, while shouting at a football match at Newport,: ..'swallowed his false teeth and was suffocated. 'iji the course of his 34 years' servicb* a Glasgow postman has walked a distance equal to ten times round the globe; Sponges are likely to be dearer.: There is, it is said, a fortune awaiting the lucky individual who discovers' a new sponge area. - . ' Successful experiments have been, made in Paris with a funeral-,;tramway-car. The vehicle is built to carry too coffin and the mourners; ;' ' ' , The provincial general elections -,in Prince Kdward Island (Canada).' resulted practically in' a clean sweep the Conservatives.