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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9600, 5 March 1917, Page 6

Broad-headed horses are the cleverest. In the British Household Cavalry tlie horses with broad foreheads learn their drill more rapidly than the others.

Evening classes have been established at Llandudno to teach boys cookery. I'ho classes, which are under the direction of a local chef, are receiving tho support of the local hotel-keepers.

In the firing-line it has often been noticed that bullets travelling at high speed produce two sounds. A man tired at from about 400 yards hears first a vicious crash. That is the bullet passing. A jutie later the report of the rifle oomes along. The speed of sound has, in fact, been beaten by the speed of rifle, bullets. Modern military rifle-bullets, when fired, travel at from 2000 ft to 3000 ft in one second. Sound can only travel along at HOOft per second. So it happens that when a man who has been fired at hoars the report of a rifle, he knows he is safe—at least, from that particular shot. It is, naturally, at long ranges, that the two distinct sounds are most noticeable. At a range of 1000yds a bullet arrives at least a second, and sometimes more, in advance of the report. The sound of the firing bullet is caused by a vacuum at its rear. The air thrown fiercely back from the nose of the projectile travels round and Tushes to the rear, as water to the stern of a fast-moving boat. Thus a crash is produced—or, in certain cases, a kind of whining snarl, like no other sound on earth.