NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1935, Page 13 (Supplement)

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE

Electricity is installed in 5,009,000 homes in England. British Civil Service is new 15,550 stronger than it was twelve months ago. g The rows of kernels on an ear of corn are always in even numbers—lB, 20, etc. A meteorite which fell in ’New Mexico many years ago contained gold. Indians called the pipe tobago, but Columbus mistook the word for the nanr of the weed and called it-tobacco. Attid spider, the highest living inhabitant in the world, is found at'22,000 fee* on Mt. Everest. . Bishop Heber worte the hymn, “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains,”., in 15 minutes. '. - .. Six British Members of Parliament refused to draw their Parliamentary. salaries last year. Razors were used in a dockers’ riot at San Francisco recently, eight men being seriously injured. A naval training ship to accommodate 80 boys has been installed on the Seine, in the heart of Paris. British warships are to have “talkie” films and equipment hired to them under a new Admiralty plan. A ring of wayside hostels is being es- . tablished round London to aid workless men tramping s from the provinces. Small Swastika flags have been affixed to the cages of all animals in the Berlin Zoo which are native to Germany. Earl Howe has announced - . that he will compete in the South African Grand Prix motor races on January 1, 1936. A flight of grasshoppers has been encountered by a pilot flying at a heightof 9500 feet over Billings, Montana. German professors engaged in - re- . ; search are forbidden to give information to the Press in regard to their work. A man arrested in Rouen for loitering has confessed that he committed 176 burglaries -which had baffled the police. Australian soap manufacture has decreased in every year since 1928—from 1,130,947 cwt to 924,403 cwt in 1934. For every egg laid on Sunday by her ■ hens a Bedfordshire woman subscribes a penny to a local fund. These pennies have already amounted to £1 3s sd. Chinese lanterns are being sent up attached to pilot ballons, at Darwin, _ r at night, as wind gauges to assist air pilots. Statistics give the average height : of the women of England as five' feet six inches, with an expectation of life of seventy-one years in. the • South and 'ixty-eight in Athe North. In .1811 a Windsor (N.S.W.) man submitted his wife to auction. The highest bid was £l6, and it was accepted. The law took a hand, nullified the sale, and awarded the man 50 lashes. Niuafoon, Tonga, has a tin cari Canoe mail service. Because of the ever present danger of sharks overturning their canoes, the mail is- towed -to ships in sealed tin cans. ’

In agricultural machinery manufacture Victoria leads. '.’The output of i2 implement works is worth £1,129,500. The output of 27 N.S.W. factories is valued at £227,838. . The Victorian annual wages bill reaches £407,403.’ In Portugal it is only, for the construe-/ tion of the fronts qt-houses that per-, mission has to be obtained—buildings are often seen with’ three walls and the roof completed, but ... awaiting official sanction before the front can be built. A ranch to rear domesticated moose has been started at Brule, in Jasper Park, Alberta, by Major Fred Brewster, a Rockey Mountain guide and rancher. According to him, the moose is the natural beast of burden in many parts of Canada. .It is strong and caxr be ridden and driven.

Brixham is the only place in England, and perhaps in the world, which boasts “ an underground lighthouse. It is situated at Berry Head, more than 300 feet above sea level, with such a wonderful natural position that it has been unnecessary to build higher. Hailstones as big as golf balls have fallen on Montevido, smashing windows and skylights to such an extent that only ten per cent, of the damage can be repaired by the glass available. The Government has sent an emergency Bill to Parliament urging the remission of all ;. customs dues on imported glass. " Among the relics that will 'be shown to future generations, perhaps, is. the five-pound note No. 1 which has just been given to the Bank of England. Although other bank notes have changed their appearance it is peculiar that the £5 ones have altered practically not at all since that first one. ... ,

A fine variety of settings distinguishes the film version of Temple Thurston’s famous book “The City of Beautiful Nonsense,” in which Emlyn Williams will play the lead. Opposite him will be Sophie Stewart, in whom film authorities believe they have made a genuine “discovery.” This charming young Scottish / actress is new to films, although well known on the West End stage. Officials of the Manhattan Aquarium announced that their electric eel would be tickled, with a copper hook, and stimulate- 1 into lighting a neon bulb ‘ in front of its tank, three times a day. Said Trainer V. W. Coates: “He was glad to light his bulb at first, but then he got ■ accustomed .to the wires and refused to shoot juice into them. Now I have to tickle him; If he’s feeling' right he lights two bulbs.”