NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1933, Page 13 (Supplement)

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE The North Pole is moving south at the rate of seven inches a year. ? The Pilgrim Trust has given £lOOO to save the Roman amphitheatre found at Chester (England). Scientists claim that they can now- , measure speeds up to about 1000 miles an hour. Incapacity for work due to rheumatism costs Britain the amazing sum of £20,000,000 a year. Starting in Glasgow 50 years ago with a membership of only 30, the Boys’ Brigade has a strength of over 100,000. Measured by a special apparatus, the speed of a driver when it touches a golf ball is from 70 to 125 miles per hour. Sea-lions at the London Zoo have to ■ be given 401 b. of fish a day to keep , them going. Germany has 65 different journals devoted to wireless; 2,500,000 people . buy these every week. . • Blue eyes, once regarded as typically English and usual, are now only to be found in any number in the Eastern Counties and the North of Scotland. ■’?■> The worst hour for street accidents in London is between six and seven p.rri. This is largely due to the homeward rush of business people. . J?' Not one person is drawing unemploy- , ment benefit in Falkland, Fife, inhere the main industry is making linoleum. The town has a population of 3000. Southend’s famous pier has had a busy season, 549,000 passengers embarking on or disembarking from pleasure steamers this summer. . \ ? The official figure given for the aero- . plane height record created by Captain Unwins is 43,976 feet, nearly 800 feet higher than the previous record, More men are taking up domestic •' work. Since January 600 men have been . placed in household jobs by the British : Legion. . . ' A world record was created a£ Warrington (England) by Harold Phoenix, of Stockton Heath, who recently toom-., pleted 100 hours’ continuous skating. After being trapped in a rabbit-bur-row for- six days a terrier was foupd to'/ be pure white in colour when rescued* , Originally she was a rich sandy brown. America is now spending a greater v annual amount on the prevention and? i detection of crime than it spent on carrying on its share of the war. ’ A 17-year-old girl of Baton Rouge'hast ■ paid her enrolment fee to the Louisiana ■ (U.S.A.) State University, with nine cattle, which she drove up to the unL? versify herself. ■ • •. The first year of married life , is, ac-' cording to one expert, very trying to the j nerves, a state of affairs which Continues until the young family begins to appear; ' ~ ' ■_/■ - .' * ; Documents dating back 700 years ?are..’ in the possession of one Stockholm, firm which -has ; been - carrying, on Lipsiness : since the 12th century. It claims to be the oldest trading concern in the world. • In the wardrobe of ' the “Old : Vic,” - London’s famous theatre, are 20,000 arti-' cles of clothing and personal adornment. ' When. “Henry VHI.” is staged, more than J 900 items of apparel are required. A recent British road census showed , that over a period of four years motorcars have Increased by 24 K per cent, ■ while Aiotor-cycles have decreased by 18 per cent.' ' ;//; Britain’s drink bill in the past 10 years >• has been reduced from £455,000,000- to £260,000,000. " If reduced consumption' ' continues at the same rate for another 15 years Great Britain will bedpirie,vol-■ uritarily a dry country. ■ . ...y j”;:’; ' An Order of the Day' was posted, bn,.-; the walls of a barracks near Paris reading: “The officer commanding the 9tn lottery warns everyone that any man « found playing with a yo-yo will* be- / sent to prison for two days.” I. ■■ ■>/-■ Smoke in the air is responsible for the " City of London losing 300 hours of sunshine every year. In one month alone' (December) there should be. ah average . of 40 hours of sunshine, of which 'th® city enjoys less than one-third. Of the main roads’ round London,’ the 1 Portsmouth Road at Esher- is stated to . be the busiest.-. During one 'week the following vehicles' were counted: —66,218'. cars, 12,219 motor-cycles; 30,38 V heavy/ij motors, and 7219 other vehicles.' ’ . /'/i'/Fourpence pays for medical consultation, treatment, and .a bottle bS medi- -, cine in the poorer'districts ofsLxverpooL»’) where three experie'riced • doctors carry” on the work of ■the cheap ■ dispensaries founded in that city in 1778, ;;. John Sloan, a -60-year-old miner, of Kona, Kentucky, is claiming the world’s “fatherhood” championship. He has 35--children, all living. The eldest is and the youngest was bom a few weeks;/ ago. There are two sets, of triplets and / four sets of’twins. . ' • Designed, on the grand scale, the new; home of the League of Nations being' 4 built in Geneva has a facade - one-third of a mile long; the assembly, hall wiU“( i seat some 2000 people, while there,'.is. room for 600 journalists in the .Press.? Gallery. ' ■ < ’ . No vessel may dock in the Port-of;-. London until the medical officers Jiri ? charge of the dock have given, her clean bill of health, but only. a sm all percentage of the 15,000 vessels . which', ~ enter the Thames every year have ally to.be boarded. , \ Because it is built on a bed of clay, / the 15th century church at Elton, Nor thamptonshire, has to be “watered”, in ~ very dry weather. The clay when too dry, and the church is only. ■ safe so long as its foundations are kept/ moist by the local fire'brigade? - ; v The pocket Bible which was used by John Wesley, the founder of the Metito-?,' dist Church, is carefully .preserved London, where it is perhaps the most highly prized possession of the Church. Formerly it travelled every wherewith the President of the Church.