NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A dream seldom lasts inore than five seconds. 1 , '■;";-, : f-.:i/ • ' , "■; "' Tho giraffe's tongue is about eighteen .;, inches long. Helmsley, in Yorkshire, h the 'largest '~ parish in England. ■'-~;. ;y/;/'., t "Ml:"- ' ; ''■■'■','" U-'-S

, The ■ number of stars visible ts the naksd eye is $,000. V;:./: ' Britain's first woman stockbroker Is '..•:' & lady who liveis in Szetar,'.-... , '^ ; ,A jingle, banyan tree-. has bees'-fcn,owii to shelter 7,000 men ,w o:ae time. ,;;,;..jji., ; ,'. The film of a. soap-bubble ;is tho 2,500,000 th part of an inch in : thickness. •

The brain is the most variable in size and quality of all/the. parta of the human body. ', ; ■•.-: ' '.:•',:

Over 10C pounds of sugar tor each- *«> Bon was the consumption in America year. - - ■'-■''■':i\l '

I; Since 1016 :£.l;soo,(X»\Bi been otbii&edjin Leudoa by streets coShctions . fov-f-.haril/y. : " ■ . •-''■:-•'•//'■:■ : ''.'-..■'•;.' ll'--" •' ■• . ■ ..-! -'.':'':. '."'.',!■ •-■';■': i A small tdfct balloon Bi:at up in & gaw : travelled' 100 miles is/ less " ih&u two and : a half hours. . '// '-, i Bones, believed to be those of victims J of the Great Plague of London, have been j dug up in Stepney. ■. j _ When a seventh son is born in Argonj tina the President of the Republic beI comes his godfather. ;.

A bed-room floor, made of blue ; glass with : a pattern in enamel, was recently exhibited in London. '// ; ,

To hire an artist's model for a:day in England now costs fifteen shillings, just double tho pre-war cost.

The tennis-courts provided by the .'London County Council are used by about 60,000 people during tiu season. ,

\;, Swiss soap-makers are/wrapping their goods in Austrian paper-money, < finding this cheaper than buying new paper. , ,

Not one person in fifty of the present population uses his or her brains to half its full capacity/ says a famous scientist.

The Russian famine being ; practically over, four hundred thousand tons of grain are being exported from Russia this year. Water freezes every night of the year in Alto Crucero, Bolivia, while at noonday the sun is hot enough to blister the fiesh. ,i / •■:,■:■•:-'■..■• ; :^ ;; '' ! ' //■ :; /-.: ; -/-'.[ ; ' •■

Sixty-three person.! were tried for murder, and thirteen sentenced to death in 1921 in England. OL'ihese only, five were executed. .'[■ -.'■',•; .:.[[[ [ ■'..; ■ ■'[ ,

X.The' type of : face :-: known v, as th« "adenoid" face, due to, the compression of th-& nostrils, was unknown in prehistoric times. -, •;. „ ■;, , - -

Thirty thousand copper coins were taken in a collection not long ■ ago for the Nottingham Cripple's Seaside Home ;at Mablethorpe. ; - '-...'< Canals to irrigate the Plain of Jordon, round the Dead Sea,, are [proposed; wi-.i> 'W;S. coveredv with fertile soil could then ' ;;•*>■ UuLi^toC ; .; : i'v ''■*■:';'■'. ; '"['"'■' '■■"■ ; "v'-' "/■'. '['v

Savings bank deposits in the United States at tfce stei $ ■.; of , 1923[:>« v throe hundred million, fronds J rnqpfr' tfwi; '•' m -.. Aii■o»ffs , .''.L,.'.l9fi2. '...■.■".; ,•''';■• '!■■.••.!:-A■!'■.; ■ : --- ',■"■ Mail aeroplanes, flying without/ pilots and controlled by an electric current, are regarded as events of the hear future .by French aviators. i

i The largest ofiice building in the East is : fast nearing completion ,:in. . Tokii. Eight • stories high, .its totali floor space is > 800,000 square feat. ', " ,'

.; Although 'tennis racquets -, in England ; have detirsassdTsli'ghtiy; in price since.last year, they ar/>' ; still ;; very much more costly ', than in ,&tys.' Two ,i' w' l '.'"'.? '.- ?'V iV;-/'ifr-%hfaW!?' . "-' were d.'Gcovtred.'-:.<ier, iS"- 3a'iii.«l l i , having 'travelled the 765„" rojxeg; ,to •-.''; the v (forsaan town in tw «lve fcours.•* , ' : ," . '/, In ; the '' last sis months i.ior-..\ than 12,000,000 postal -/packets had to bos surcharged in England, - postmen ; ■ collecting . on them nearly £90,000. ' ,' ■•- ■'' -- ; t Y EipaiA\'J; vinous 'bullfights/■! are '-■ZSf®.timig : from ; trHile"; union strikes and " rings "; the latter: are formed by the breeders ■*'. , inflate the price <pf bulls. '" . l '"•'-''''.'"•'' I; Whalebone brushes are now being made for household use they are resilient to the end,? and push i the , dust . before "them :instead of raising it in a cloud. .', •" ; C. J. H. Tolley,: the Oxford golfer, , recently made a drive of, 310 yards—mor« - than a sixth of a mile —the biggest driver ever made in any championship. ;. ' ;? :;',".. : Mr. J. H. Turner, onca Prime Minister- : :, of British Columbia, took a long vr&'k >~ the other day at Itiihmond, in Sums?, ;,;/. to celebrate his ninetieth birthday. /.'' • ■ :[y!^:, M.P.'s and their guests ate 42 -Zirest-. , . • fasts, 93,772 luncheons, 36,241' »Knm:4u-: ;.:,-,.• ana 73,870 teas in the refreshment rooms ; at theFouse of C^mmuns.lasVy^ar.:; 1 • . - ■ "f '>Nci i-\ v -r. XT' iw*/f" ■"*e?~' ■""■>&*■■. •; '•';' --,/.■'•/.'•/'/• ••; V' cotio drag, i*» **i»in.*L? Kiiv'.d * ales . It is'estimated that there are more than 1,500,000, addicts, many of th«an: boys and .. ■ gi'is- ' '•'•', ■■'-,'. . ■-'. ■'~ ,' " The supposed skull of tie .Miocene •'.'-.. Period found recentlyjiffi Patagonia-by/ a /. scientist, Dr. J. G. Wolf, s haa proved on. : ; .- examination ;to be only, a;. curidttjly shaped - stone. -. 1 : -; - • , ■■ ■ ■;, ' Some letters seat in 3916 do -British soldiers who: were prisoners in Turkey;.: ;.;.,•.;/; have just been returned fco tlhe senders with the intimation that they could not be delivered. ; Of the tonnage paseui'g thto^ n . '■■&.£« ■. . ■ ... : Panama Canal last year the i had 56 'pit cent..and; Efita* ai ! r , cent!;'Nci-way-waii next, with •■«** ■.. l"'-&n •: five percent. < ' • , f Mr. W. R. Hall, one of tae icier mea who carried President Lincoln, out; of the : theatre. at Washington after / he; was ■ shot ■/\ : . in 1865, has just died at South Shields, at the age of 89.. Unemployment : Kr:jjiand reached its ;. hightest point in Jn,,r. 1921, when the official total ra 2,W I,oooj a -April of • this year ; the nv?&%i -oS' unemployed had: , decreased to 1.2'/ i •'^ , . The large it ; in Essex are 4 W«;t' ."-'.- Ham wK|i ft illation of ,300,800}■ Em, ■ Ham'- r'-j,^; 1 Walth'sanstow, m&;,;. . 129 395- LV7N>ni ; with 128,430; Southeadj - with 106,9:'.- and Elford, with 85,194. Cambridge University '. Btcdehts -'ire '. - again-helping to train elementary schwl- ; boys' in Ceabridge as:cricketers, cFifteen .>■•■ p/,. :colleges will each i take a ", school and in- •/ /- .•:■ • struct boys on the college playing-field. ' /./ " Touts " ':■ for undertakers > are .:; making ' themselves, unpleasantly 1 conspicuous ,: p. ' many Northern : tovm3 of England. ' /, As ■ soon as : a bereavement /occurs: they begin canvassing for orders,for! their employers. / Wild, animais have their own way of spreading news. According to Mr. Cherry Kearton, the big game hunter, even hops .. , are susceptible to lihe' V danger "message and have deserted many of their old haunts. ' , ' Telegrams in facsimile are now ..being .',/..'.•, sent : between Pwris:and Lyons and be- : tween Paris and Strasburg by tne Berlin r . - WBtem, .an actual:■ photograph-:Represent- , ing the telegram handed. In being delivered. ': - ' ' i ~-'' '■■: Londor school children, on the average , are twel ; months in advance of ebiUrea , of the ■ &&fo age in , New York ;; ,0. ; ;.™»'! in intelligence.'' The proportion of 'dull schSais £ London schools isonly one in £, every te?\ - ,-. ~.-,'>'■■ i '-:':':','■ .'■ ■ Hawaii, the home of ttopiD«J, bjay.-" ■ fonnd that the pine a nrore «!«*"' ™; • '■ thSgar crops.pbtawe|r %m®m&% - lard . forraerly «Jgg , barren, are exp< ■» to equal 10 "***•> ' cases of »>ines m 3.925. - ' WComplete' with *WSL ffiS kitchon,- and" spioons. a ****** , trainiin Mesopotamia.nowXv&*-^^'^»< ; 'cannot bs a# « a j*^'i^^iy|«iffliffi »T^djp3^s^s'SC«B,^-.^jv..:«■