NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19169, 7 November 1925, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

I The Red Indian population of the United States is increasing. A woman died at Llanelly recently after living seventy years in the same house. During the year ended March 31 about 135.000 houses were erected in Britain. Sent up in Staffordshire, a toy balloon was found in Saxony, 500 miles distant. A Great. Western train covered the 226 miles between Plymouth and Paddington * in 242 minutes. Ihe boy scouts of Bulgaria, where the movement is just a year old, have been holding their first jamboree. A Lincoln, England, signalman, seeing a boy drowning in tho Brayford Pool, left his box, plunged in, and rescued hirn. Chimpanzees under observation show a sense of humour, enjoy a joke, exhibit affection, and even show obedience. Brighton's unemployed early in August numbered 1700, as compared with 30,000 in the same month two years ago. A fruit called tho veitchberry, something between the blackberry 'and the raspberry, has been exhibited 'in London. _ "There is no standard pronunciation of English because the language is constantly changing," said an expert recently. Two taxi-cabs were needed to take to the British Foreign Office a petition against war signed by half-a-million people. A toy balloon which was picked up lately at Oundle, in Northamptonshire, was found to have come from Wimereux, in France. There are twenty stars which are said to be of the first magnitude, because they are the twenty brightest stars in the heavens. Cheques and postal-orders are frequently found among the waste paper removed * by the Salvation Army from London offices. The Baltic is the shallowest sea, only 43 yards in average depth. Next comes the Adriatic, with an average of 45 yards depth. When a bucket was lowered into a disused coal pit at Alio a collie dog, which had fallen in, jumped into it and was drawn to safety. Hearing a noise in his bedroom, a man named Swann, at Leavenheath, in Suffolk, discovered that a cygnet bad made its home in his bed. An angry bull charged an aeroplane landing in a field in Belgium, the machine being so badly damaged that it could not continue its flight. Travellers on London's Underground, including tubes, buses and trams, during the August Bank Holiday week-end, totalled 15,738,000. Grey squirrels have caused much damage to the walnut crop in Northamptonshire and growers are considering a campaign against them. Wireless has been laid on from a central receiver to every flat in War Seal Mansions, the colony for disabled ex-ser-vice men in Fulham, London. After fasting for 33 days, a young American scientist says that after the third week he lost interest in everything except getting some food to eat. A Streatham man who lost his foxterrier at Brighton was amazed to find the dog on his doorstep the next morning. It had run 45 miles during the night. Photographs have been taken by means of a solid steel ball in place of an ordinary lens.. The light goes round, instead of* through, this novel metal lens. About the size of a starling, yet able to run so swiftly that they can race a horse, three tiny birds recently arrived at the London Zoo from South Africa. England's famous schools are long-lived. Westminster existed in 1339, and Winchester in 1373; Eton was founded in 1440, Rugbv in 1567, and Harrow in 1571. ■During the August bank holiday weekend the London underground services carried nearly 16,000.000 people, equ?>l to the populations of Holland and Belgium together. Seventeen years' labour on the part of a Spanish peasant has resulted in his acquiring a house carved out of a solid rock. It possesses a balcony, garret, and cellar. When the Universal Esperanto Congress met at Geneva lately a service in Esperanto was held in the cathedral, and a woman preached a sermon in Esperanto from Calvin's pulpit. A mouse running across the cables at a power station is believed to have set jip a short circuit which caused a hundred factories in Hammersmith to shut down for some hours. No moneylenders will be allowed to hold official posts in the new Jewish Synagogue jsoon to be opened in St. John s Wood Road, London. It is the largest synagogue in Great Britain. Nottingham has just taken possession of Woollaton Hall, the historic mansion which was begun in the year of.the Spanish Armada, and has a park twice as big as Hyde Park. Alderman W. Singleton, J.P., of Mansefield, England, who is chairman of a committee which controls about 2000 allotment gardens in -the town, .lias been a gardener 65 yearsBarking dogs which become a nuisance can now be "cured" by having their barks removed, as a result of experiments carried out by the American Veterinary Medical Association. A mystery box, presented to the Rev. Felix Wilkinson on leaving Mansfield to be rector of Ordsall, Nottinghamshire, contained a set of largo saucepans and other kitchen things. M. Paderewski unveiled at Chamonix lately a tablet fixed to the stone from which John Raskin used to look out on Mont Blanc. The tablet is tho work of the Polish sculptor Tarnowsky. Of the samples of milk tested by tho British Ministry of Health recently, no fewer than 4773 out of 62,133 were found to be adulterated or below standard. This represents a percentage of over 7£. When a case full of Treasury Notes was retrieved from the lake at' the British Empire Exhibition, the owner was able to prove his claim by giving the numbers of all the notes. Ho was a Scotsman. 1 In view of a crowd o? onlookers a young man attempting to rescue a dog "from" the River Thames, at Temple steps fell into the water and was drowned. A few minutes later the dog was rescued by a police boat. Banknotes recently circulated by the Biffs were printed in three languages. First came, in English. "State Ban a of the Riffs": then an Arabic inscription, followed by a statement of the note s value in both English and I ranch. The cries of a collie at tho ft torn of a disused coal pit at Alloa, on the Firlh of Forth, recently attracted attention an , purely as a chancer ™ « bucket was lowered. O'} itsi reacn b bottom the dog jumped m and was hauieu to the surface. . According lo the »»* <*» th! greatest possible happiness. catching When asked how he managed it he explained that he had retaining fees from several big shipping companies to keep their vessels free of vermm.