ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17574, 1 December 1928, Page 13 (Supplement)

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS. / The perfect egg should weigh I slightly over two ounces. i France tas changed the name of ' its War Office to Army Office. ' ) A queen bee, recently exhibited In.<:|S j London, had travelled 3500 miles i post. Six ears of barley on one straw have : been grown on a farm at Ely, Eng- 'A land. '. . Britain has now become the world 8■■;;?; workshop fn aircraft, ships, and locomotives. For the first time a woman has * acted as foreman of an Old Bailey (London) jury. . • Anc<>a:s Hoepital at Manchester (Eng.) his treated a miihui patients in a hundred years. i'f the new motor cars sold in Great. Pritain, warjy seventy per cent, arc of the saloon type. The British National Children's , Home has now sent out more than 3000 boys to Canada. The amount of dirt in the air Is said to be greater in Burnley than in . any other town in England. The Ten Commandments have been } carved on the rocky crest of Bucklahd Beacon, on Dartmoor, Engand. Houses built for £IOOO nine years' ■- ago are now let for seven., shillings .-.: '.>. a week at Bulkington, in Warwick- - shire, England. Enormous numbers of python 3 and lizards are being killed, especially in the East Indies, so that their skins may become leather. The interest alone on the debts owed by forty Governments to the , United States represents the wages of 5,000,000 workers. Great Britain sold the Irish Free State motor-cars to the total value of £376,000 during the first seven months of the year. The Mauritania has made a new record for ihf voyage from New York to Plymouth, having done it in just ( . six minutes over Ave days. A wasp's nest, eighteen inohes square and one foot deep, was dis* ctvered under a bedroom floor in a | house at Enfield, England. This year's harvest of wheat in Great Britain is estimated at 1,201,000 . tons, a decrease of over 200,000 as compared with last year. There are now, on an average, six times as many divorce cases brought before the British "Courts as there were in pre-War days. The British Poster Advertising Association offers to all advertisers : ' the use of its standard hoarding de-. r signed by Sir Reginald Blomfleld. Britain's fleet of privately- owned motor cars is estimated to have increased at the rate of 2500 per week during many weeks of this year. Only a comparatively small amount of smoke in the air is sufficient to cuf off the whole of the ultra-violet rays V so necessary to good health.

In one room in Bermondsey, London, eleven people live; while there ( \' are two families, of ten persons each, occupying two rooms between them.

A gold and silver smith who recently died left a whl arrai&'fcg for all his stock-in-trade to be oite"ed to the clergy of England at cost price.

Doncaster (Eng.) with a population of 54,000, had an increase of 9669 unemployed in July; Bradford's. Increase, on a population of 286,000, was 6713.

The London Metropolitan Water Board pays £90,000 a year to~ thr Thames Conservancy, for the water drawn from the river to supply London's needs.

"Wise women" still exist in Wales, who advise the administration of some small animal, such as a mouse or toad, V cooked and pulverised, as a cure for ; certain ills.

In England oranges are expected to be cheaper this winter than; in any year since 1913, owing to the rivalry between the Californian and South African growers.

Selling milk in bottles with diso caps is condemned by some experts, who claim that these bottles are liable to numberless contaminations before being opened for use.

Convicted in England for being drunk while in charge of a car, a motorist was recently fined £25 and costs and disqualified for life from again holding a driving license.

Typists are said tolbe specially subject to illness, owing to the monotony of their work, the noise of the machines, and the cramped positions they adopt, among other causes.

Although they have never met in person a family in Sheerness (Eng.) has corresponded regularly each, week with a family in North Ireland since 1855, over seventy years.

By making a fitment for a windowstrtp in one part instead of two, thus using three screws instead of six, the English Southern Railway may save hundreds cf pounds a year in future. Couples who wish to sit on the park benches in Budapest must be ready to prove that they are married by producing passports, marriage certicates, or other documents on demand. The addition of four or five grammes of gaseous chlorine per cubic metre of water in a swimming , bath is sufficient to disinfect the water and make bathing healthier and more enjoyable. The habit of drinking methylated i spirits is on the increase, especially in Londoa, the North of England, and ' | South Wales. There were 428- con- I victions for this offence in England in v 1927. During one year 2000 queries were . received by telephone at the Croydon, Surrey (Eng-) public libraries.. They . included requests for addresses of transators of Dutch, the geographical position of Hermosa, how to make a sheepskin .into a rug, and details of anonymous letters in history. v