NEWS IN BRIEF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12065, 21 July 1917, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

London Bridg® has been burnt down six times.

Goldfish in a globe usually swim round to the right.

Gorman helmets aro nearly as light as straw hats.

Shakespeare's plays brought, him m about £2O a year.

The <rarrent of tho River Amazon is felt 150 miles out at soa.

In some parts of Norway com ia used as a substitute for monev,

Christie'b most sensational sale realised £397,000 in seventeen days. There aro more ducks in China than in all the rest of the world. An Army baker has to be capable of niakina 4001b of bfead daily.

Colour blindness is more than twice as common in men as in women.

Bamboo-trees do not blossom until they attain their thirtieth year. A flock of ono hundred hens produco in eggshells about 1371b of chalk annually.

When p. Parseo dies a dog Is brought in and made to look at the body. Snails boiled in bariey-water used to be considered aji excellent remedy for ccttgha. Tho Romans coated their oysters with honoy, :wicl kept them until they were slightly putrid. An official song-hook is issued by tho Lords of the Admiralty for tho use of bluejackets. Lord Tennvson, Darwin. Gladstone and Oliver Wendell Holmes were all bom. in the same year. Blondes should avoid the lighter shades of blue, which give an ashy appearance to tho complexion. A covey of patridges has been Ijnown to upset tho balance of an airman, and bring him to earth. There is a law in Nebraska requiring hotel proprietors to furnish bed-sheets nino feet in length. It has been estimated that more than liso millions of salmon ova are annually deposted in the Tay. Lloyd's derives its name from a man who kept a. coffee-house in which merchants used to congregate two hundred years ago.

According to tradition, tho seven , deadly sins are: anger, pride, gluttony, I lust, avarice, envy and sloth. Inferior bacon is improved by being sliced, pMt in cold water, boiled for two minutes, and then fried. It has been established that the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo ner?r uttered the "famous words, "Up, guards, and at them !'" Georgo Washington died during the last hour of the last> day of the week in the last month of the last year of the century before last. The English sovereign w&s first coined in 1626. Previous to that date tho noble, value fifteen shillings, was tho most vahiablfi British coin. About 800 waistcoats, made from 2100 pairs of old gloves, have been forwarded for the use of British prisoners of war in Germany from residents of Surbiton, through the medium of the Glove Waistcoat Society. Concrete is employed very extensively for barge-building. These barges travel for thousands of miles on the Central African lakes. The expense of steel barges would be very heavy, but concrete barges aro quite cheap,, and are easily made and moved.