NEWS IN BRIEF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 19 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

For every 10ft, a diver descends, there is an added water pressure of 4|lbs. over every square inch of his body. i A palindrome is a sentence which i reads the same backwards as forwards, i An example: ‘‘Was it a cat I saw?” The British Houses of Parliament contain over 500 rooms. About 200 per- ; sons, most of them members of the staff, arc residents therein. j A young Frenchman who left Join ville on the River Marne last May has j just returned from a tour of Europe, having covered 5625 miles in his canoe. > There are to-day only half as many 1 road accidents due to motor traffic in 1 England as in 1919 in proportion to the s increase in the number of motor-cars ■ and vehicles. One spot in the Pacific Ocean, forty miles east of the Philippine Islands, is n the deepest yet sounded; the depth rcn corded was about 5900 fathoms, or 9 seven miles. The deepest spot in the - Atlantic is off Porto Rico, w r here 5228 fathoms were registered. A man’s overcoat, lined with Russian ’ sable and with a collar of sea-otter fur. t was recently offered for sale at £3OOO t by a London tailor. Sea-otter is the - rarest of furs; there are, it is said, t only four pieces in existence. The collar of this coat was valued at- £lOOO.