HERE AND THERE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11773, 8 March 1924, Page 12

HERE AND THERE

WOMEN IN ARMY SERVICE. Madeleine Pelletier spSH jn %?our military servioo for wt*mdn. She is the French feminist mov£ Wojnm, she said, were as brave as men and rave proof of their endur“,<S s«rts gho cited the XSS, the French Revolution and ff? et ® bad seen Moscow ° f woia<ai 8 regiments in •/l7 a ?.i. w P men AP a blood tax," ** J 3 not .because I wish to ij-be means to got the right vote/' lJi OT both men and women, wok oxoeption to her views. Throe hundred tons of the beet rag Itepeff are used in. producing one year's &®pply of Britdah etamps, numbering Seven hundred million. An electric flash. 42 feet high, under the control of one man, was recently shown to American electrical engineer at the Weetinghmise laboratory* : Oil ftol for afaups means it big wg j a 6000-ton steamer run on oil posts less than a quarter the cost of a SOOOton reaped Doming coal over the earns mileage. Siv Edward Marshall HalL K .(X* at a price distribution in London, arid i "Ksrer on any condition go to low. It is always cheaper to loss your money in another way." Tenants of a property-owner in Is Hpsfjelle, France, receive a “bonus'* ft tores months’ rent an tire birth of ins first child and six months’ rent &ti tbs birth of the second. Under a treaty concluded between Nopal and Britain, Nepal is to be free to import arms ana ammunition thrcraghlndia, but agrees not to permit tireif export across the herder, j Income-tax payable in the United States will begin on incomes of £2CO for bachelors and £4OO for married men. plus £BO for each child under 18 if the bill before the Congress becomes law. Cresting the knees while titting is said to be an early factor in the forming of varicose veins. The deadly tsetse fly Is kept Under in East Africa by a certain parasite Unknown m West Airier. A stiver ooin remains in currency for an average of twenty-seven years. One of London’s last farms, near Dulwich Park, is now being razed to the ground to make way for houses. The diver mark has only been the Standard coin of Germany for fifty years; previous to that the thaler was in use. An old purse I .ought for a penny by a woman at a Southend Jumble sale was found <o contain a IQs Treasury note. A v.treleai alarm clock has been invented which responds to vibrations of a eerte.* wave-leugth broadcast in the neighbourhood. Subsidences of land in Cheshire, duo tn underground workings, have brought into existence lakes, 80 90 and 100 ft. deep, where onco there was solid e&rth-