NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1932, Page 11 (Supplement)

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE

Only about one-quarter ,of the property stolen in London is ever recovered.

Londoners are walking more. The ’bus and train services carried 28,000,000 fewer people in 1031 than in 1930.

An electrode that can be used for welding sheeT or cast aluminium has been developed recently. Jersey farmers will this year employ 3000 workers from England instead of from Brittany as in previous years.

The new League of Nations’ library at Geneva, to be built by a British firm, will have 35 miles of shelves. Last year the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway built, 132 new 1 locomotives, 47 at Derby, 70 at Crevye. and 15 at Horwich.

Tramps in Ontario, Canada, are refusing to stay in the poor-houses, because they must take a bath upon entering. ’. r

The Scottish whisky trade is booming owing to a rush of orders from Finland, where prohibition was abolished on April 5.

An American town on the verge of bankruptcy was miraculously saved recently by the discovery of a gas well within its boundaries.

Water for making stout in one London brewery is drawn ’from a depth of 500 feet; it contains certain sulphur and salts which are beneficial to health. Millionaires in Great Britain last year totalled 540. This was the number of incomes exceeding £50,000, which is the income at five per cent, on £1,000.000Five out of every 100 new motor-cars placed on London streets every year are stolen. Of those so lost 75 per cent, are ultimately returned to their owners. Tripe, treated by a special process invented by a German, is turned into a “skin,” from which thousands of hand-, bags sold in Great Britain are made. Bloaters contain more nutriment price for price than any meat. Two herrings a. day will provide a man with-all the protein he needs. War cemeteries completed throughout the world had reached the huge total of 923 12 months ago; they contain nearly 550,000 headstones. Ret dogs must be black or grey in colour to satisfy the “smart”-women, in Paris, and they wear little coats to match their owner’s toilet.

When a railway line in Morocco became impassable owing to the large number of snails on the track, an army of ducks was borrowed to clear tha line.

More than 5,250,000 men and women have paid into the Unemployment Insurance Fund in Britain for the last seven . years without drawing a penny from it. ‘ --

London is the most prosperous industrial area. in. England, More than 2,00.0,000 of its workers have been in edntinupus employment for the past seven years. ■. ’

So . that Cockneys can explore their own city a London Explorers’ Club has been formed. At .week-ends members visit- interesting -.places; which are unknown to the average /Londoner. ■. . Two Yorkshiremen have just finished a game of chess started in 1922. As they live on oppositelsides of the world, the game has been played by letters.. It ended in stalemate.

Two enormous logs of mahogany were stored at the West India Docks;' London, recently. One, from Honduras, weighed over 11 tons, and the other, from West Africa, more than 10J tons. Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates run ah organisation- called; the “Vine Street Club.” . Only those who have been arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station, London., for “ragging” in the West End are eligible. London’s trams are expected to show a deficit of £BB,OOO on the financial year just closed, the greatest drop being in the penny fares. . Since 1922-23 there has been a deficit every year except two.

In the handbag of a woman thief who was caught recently the police found purses, handkerchiefs, scissors, fountain pens, pencils, combs, mirrors, gloves, powder-boxes, fancy cigarette-boxes, wristlet watches and jewelleryAmong the supper dishes recommended for children in institutions under the Ministry of Health are pomegranates, apples, bananas, oranges, stewed damsons and prunes, dates, and lemonade with biscuits.

Plants grown for adorning the Royal Parks in London include 50,000 geraniums, 20,000 pansies, 15,000 stock, and 10,000 antirrhinums. They are raised in glass-houses covering five acres in Hyde Park.

Workmen digging the foundations of a house in the Khalifa Quarter, Cairo, discovered two pieces of pottery containing, among others, 157. old gold coins. 'Several coins bore the inscription, “There is only one God. and Mohammed is His ‘Prophet,” and on the other side the effigy of a lior cub. An airman can measure his height above ground by means of a new instrument which makes a continuous toottoot. The noise of the toots is reflected back from the earth and is heard with a stethoscope. The time taken for the echo of the toots to. reach the airman shows the height from the ground. Boughton House, near. Kettering, was designed to represent the days, weeks and quarters of the year. It" has tour wings to represent the four quarters of the year; 365 windows, one for each day; fifty-two chimneys, one for each week; and seven entrances to represent the days of the week. The Amalgamated Engineering Union of Great Britain reports that at the end of February they had 715 fewer members unemployed than in January. This society is one of the chief trade unions and has a total membership of over 204,000, so that its reports are of great importance. Miss Maria Sarah Comley collapsed and died at the organ in Hinckley-Par-ish Church (England) during -a- jchildren’s Lenten service. She was playing the hymn which begins;

When 1 survey the wondrous Cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride. Hundreds of children were in the congregation. When the organ ceased playing they finished singing the hymn, and were., then asked quietly to leave the church,’and did’to unaware of what had happened.