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Northland Age, Volume 8, Issue 3, 19 October 1938, Page 10

A car driven by a Middlesex motorist left the road, turned four somersaults, knocked down a road sign and a tree, and strewed parts of itself all

over the place. But Mr. Basil Gray, the driver, was unhurt, and after reporting the accident to the police, went home in a bus. it it it Britain’s lamb crop is estimated at 8,545,000, a percentage of 126 lambs to 100 ewe% ☆ ☆ ☆ The Mount Wilson, U.S.A., Observatory reports the rise of a solar prominence of just under a million miles from the sun’s surface. Its highest rate of rise was 124 miles per second. ☆ ☆ ☆ It is proposed to harness the Iquaza Falls, on the borders of Brazil and Argentine, to supply eelctric power to the whole of Central America and Argentina. The falls are forty feet higher than Niagara and half as wide again, and are estimated to supply 5,000,000 horse-power. it it if Wattle Bark, winner of last year’s Greyhound Derby, is afraid of mice and at exercise kennel men go ahead in case there are any field mice about. When he was a puppy a nest of mice was found in his bed, and since then he will not sleep on straw. it it it The Pan-American Society of

Tropical Research is distributing three million seeds of a South American plant, “Yerba de la Pulga,” which possesses exceptional insect-repelling powers. Experiments have proved that the plant not only contains, but actually exudes, sufficient quantities of the drug “rotenone” to make a single growing specimen of the plant repellant to all forms of insect life in an area of some 15 to 20 square feet. its it it Experiments are being made of the possibility of lining food-stuff tins with silver instead of tin. Though more expensive, it may be sufficiently desirable for some purposes to justify the expense. ☆ ☆ ☆ London picture theatre advertisement: You Want the Best Wars: We Have Them! Premiere: “Thunder Over the Orient” and Ernest Hemingway’s “Spanish Earth.” See your Civilisation Today. Women and Children Shot to Bits! ☆ ☆ ☆ Japan’s dexterity in sending apologies has given London a new word. One man in the Undex-ground Railway was trying to tell another how sorry he was for kicking his corn. The injured man exclaimed: “Oh, shut up, you and your janoloeries!”