Brief and Bright.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2664, 20 November 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

Brief and Bright.

King Edward VII. is the most heavily insured man alive. . London uses m one way or anotlie. 200,000 tons of ice a year. _ The cost of feeding the British cavalry • horses) averages £25 a head y< The largest kite ever, made was 50ft. by 45ft. ■' Its weight,, including tail, exceeded three-quarters of a ton. All the Russian railway . stations keep complaint books, where passengers may enter various protests.. Between eight and nine .©very morning 164,000 persons enter .the City of London; every evening, between six and seven, 175,000 leave. One of the managers cf she Martliam (Norfolk) Scliool has offered prizes to the children who attend school with the cleanest boots. i ■ , A "Kirkcaldy .policeman has been getting married.' The- carriage 'in. which he returned from, the man.se' bore this placard : “Handcuffed for life—with no reprieve.” ' _ T : , Nearly > all the_ bib.les sent to Uganda are Vbound in; tin, in. order to guard against the voracious African ’ants, Which frequently completely devour the ordihiary covers of bjodlys.. .. ' • > In. twenty-fiye years the National. So - ci ety for 'the Preyentidn' of 'Cm el ty' to Children has .befriended; close upon a million and a half children, and dealt with 700,000 1 offenders. ~ At the baptism of'the twin children, of Mr and Mrs A. Gillingham, at.Kirkliain, near Preston, the 1 father’s twin sisters acted as godmothers, and the mother’s twin brothers were godfathers. A Venetian glass manufacturer is said to be making and selling bonnets ' by. the thousand. The glass cloth N ol which they are made lias the same shimmer'.and brilliancy of color as silk, and is impervious to water.