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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10956, 19 July 1921, Page 6

The highest velocity of a gale recorded in Britain wan 103 miles an hour, recorded near Falmouth in 1905; this was a brief gust, the highest hourly velocity being 78 miles an hour,- at Fleetwood, in .1894. - L7l, tlie latest form of wan Zeppelin, and the largest airship actually flown, is 743 ft long, and- has a mimmu|m speed of 74 miles per hour. She has been surrendered to Great Byitaitj under the terms of the Peace Treaty. To-day there are 450,000 direct telephone lines in the British Isles—loo,000 more than there were eight years ago. There are 170,000 Lond’on subscribers who make 204,000 calls daily, n.s compared with 181,000 calls before tho war. A soap bubble Is merely a hollow ball' of water containing air.' The s.oap-. partly dissolved, forms a very thm film or skin over the air, which is endeavouring to force its way through it. The air exerts an equal pressure in all directions, and foroc's the soapfilm out at an equal distance from the centre of the compt'essecr a-ir, thus forming a perfect sphere or ball.;