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NEWS IN BRIEF.

A'-bkc can out fly • a pigeon. • The Shah of Persia- has 50 pet. cat*. 1 We hate now sixty sabmame-A in thi. navy. Washington, U.S.A., is 3850 miles Crotir London. The world's miners of metal numlm.' 4,000,000. The tot! lays about forty-fire million eggs yearly. The number' of Buddhists u> computed to be 455,000,000. Fifty- five yacht club* own, between them, *i 0> yachts. , • . The Salvation- Army make their own musical instruments. An ordinary railway engine is equal in strength to 9(X> horses. Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, "im*s ■a population of 75.000. Thirty-seven thousand girls attend cooking elates in London. In Belgian prisons smoking is allowed *9 a' reward for good beluviour, English apple orchards cover .180,000 acres, against 560.000 in Fiance. The Chinese have twice sacked Moscow, once in 123? and again in 1295. There, are not more than 1300 men over [ forty-live years old in the navy. ; ; The starfish has no nose, but can sireil with the whole of' its under side. A racehorse galloping at full speed ■ dears from 20it to 24ft every bound. Light passes from the moon to th« earth in one and one-fourth seconds. The strongest single animal thread known is a hair from the tail of a horse. The sun yields about 300,000 _ times as much light as does the moon at its full. There are fifty-five dogs in the United Kingdom to every thousand inhabitants. Of the 1,900,528 domestic servants in the United Kingdom only 140,753 arc men. In China tho property of the father must be equally divided among the children. The Mikado of .Japan includes among his retainers thirty physicians and frixty priests. It is because soot, contains four per cent, of ammonium sulphate, that it is useful as manure. Tho oldest living .Scotsman' is said To be Archibald MacCrunnion, of Syko, aged 109 years. A sovereign invested at 5 per cent, compound interest will, in 60 years, amount to over £18. Hashish,, which ha* similar effects to opium, is prepared from the gum derived from Indian hemp. Lyford, Devonshire, with an area of 60,0*00 acres, is ..said to bo the largest ; parish in England. Ranis are being discarded in the navy, and all the Dreadnought typo arc being fitted without them. In Ecuador there is a tribe of Indians who kill their prey by blowing a poisoned - arrow through a pipe. No receptacle has ever been nude with sufficient strength to resist the bursting power of frozen water. The average annual consumption of to-.-bacco in England is thirty ounces pop head of tho population. The Queen of Holland, who'is very fond of animals, dislikes and discourage® the killing of them for sport. : - Women stutl»i!its at the University of. Berlin are not' allowed to wear their hair in braids down their backs. ; The black jaguar of Central America will attack any man by night or .-day. ... whom" finds* lying down." ... - At Olllcy, Herts, the parents of either bride or , bridegroom attend the ceremony, in only one out of thirty rases. To test a ' dimanod, place the, finger -' behind it: if tho grain of the skill is visible, the 'stone is not a diamond. The grey buzzard is believed to be the heaviest bird that Hies, the young niaJca weighing 401 b when food is plentiful. Germany produces more tissue-paper than any other country. It has 17 mills engaged exclusively in this manufacture, . 1 All magazines on British battleships are being fitted, with refrigerating machinery to lessen the risk of spontaneous combustion. . : - Some naval experts say that destroyem will bo the warships of "tho next century, and they will be able to travel at a mile a minute. ' ; About £68 per ton will be the average cost of the new Hi. Vincent type of battle- | ship. which is an improvement on tin? Dreadnought. • r , Dew -will rest thickly on a board- • painted yellow, slightly on one painted, green, but not at all on hoards painted , red or black. The Goldsmith* Company lias decided i to grant £10,000 to • Cambridge University for the purpose of endowing a readership in metallurgy. • The largest bed of salt, in the world is , said to have been disoevered at Fori. McMurray, Manitoba. It is 200 ft deep, and extends for 300 miles. ■ 'An elephant works from the age of ! twelve to 80. lie can draw a load of' fifteen tons, lift half a ton, and carry ' three tons on lii/s buck. A humming bird's nest containing three 1 dead fledglings was found in a stalk of * > bananas which formed part of a consign. ; ment received at Kettering. An Antwerp boalbuilder intends to take i a boat, lilted up as a theatre, for tho performance of little comedies, through the . interior of Belgium by canal. Frederick Baker, of Allwal Bead, Clapham Junction, was drowned at Brighton 1 while attempting to recover a friend's hat ..-I.; 1 which had fallen, into the sea. ; Tho Woodlands Road Wesley an Chapel, ; Middlesbo rough, which has just been . opened, is provided with •' tip-tip"', sets, i similar to those in use in theatres.' «. , i John Woodgate Ivinsella,- a tailor's cutter, was sentenced at JUveds to seven ' years' penal servitude for bigamy. He is 1 said to have nine " wives" now alive. 3 A well-to-do merchant, of Hamburg I, called at an undertaker's and bought * i coffin, which he ordered to be sent to bin 1 res.-?. He then went home and shot i him.-elf. . The French Academy has refused .v "■ legacy of £4,00u for the purpose of re- >' forming the moral# of Paris, left by a 8 French lady. Mile. T.eclerc, who recently £ tied in the United Stales. The Kaiser las announced his intention . of presenting to the museum at Munich a £ model of the new battleship Nassau. Tho . model will be three feet in length, and! . will cost more than £4000. ■" A Massachusetts society ha« presented 1 Governor Guild, of Boston, with a protest - against keeping in further solitary confine-' ' merit a murderer named l'ometoy, who ha a " suffered that punishment for "thirty-foil* years. J Mrs. Roxana Pike Church, who ha« just > died at Evanston, Illinois, acted as one j of the flower-girls who greeted Lafayette, J upon his visit to Boston to attend the l.v,'- . ing of the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill i monument. J A ring set, with two brilliants and ' valued at about £15 was found in a her- * ring by Mme. Heully at the French vit- * large at Sercoeur. She was eating the 1 fish, and bit something hard, which ' proved to lxi the. ring. A record for unabashed coolness in picki" ing pockets was established recently. Mr. , Rich Henry Hodge, a barrister, was . ; leaving Mr. Justice Warrington's court . , . among a crowd of people after the adjourn- » ment of a i\i«se, when he discovered that J . - his chain was dangling front his pocket , and his gold watch had disappeared.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

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NEWS IN BRIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)