- GEO. MILNES GRCO3B AND DRAPER, OciSQeittf. " Horowlienna Chronicle " Offio®. OXFORD BTREET. SCOTS AND DRAPERIES. COME IN AND SEE THE NEW ETOCSKB. LEVIN GARAGE AND ENGINEER--IKb WORKS. MURPHY BROTHERS, P.O. Box 27. - Telephone 50. QUEEN STREET. A6ENT3 FOR FORD MOTOR CARS. All classes of Machinery erected and repaired at short notice. ACCUMULATORS CHARGED. In stock: Motor Accessories, l&acMnery. Gas Engine, Steam CyHnd«r and Motor Oils. Steam and Water Packings and Jointing.' Arnold's Cash Butchery. Primo meat delivered to any part i? of Levin or Weraroa. Poultry supplied to order. Our cart calls every day at customers' houses. rj-* .Arnold's Butchery. ;-/ QUEEN STREET, LEVIN. \ Cash Bnyer of Hides, Skins, and follow. UP-TO-DATE VEHSOLES f Of a!': Descriptions made and Repaired. IiiPLEfiEiTS Wo do not claim to be the CHEAPEST hut Guarantee BEST of Workmanship. SWAINSON AND BfcVAN, LTD. 1073-y. MANAEAU. Scientific Notes.
-0 England's factories consume about • one-fifth, the coal tho nation mines, v The wings of a flying bee vibrato mare than" 100 times a second. Tungsten salts have heen found to \ i 'be valuable for fi reproofing textiles. Zanzibar and the neighbouring island of Pomba- supply most of the world's cloves. A rather useful novelty is a cane carrying an el<vtrics llashlight near the handle. T<lk i Vienna Municipal Council has required the use of taximeters on all two-horse tabs. Pennsylvania's new pure-food law forbids the use of twenty-three specified adulterants or preservatives. Swedish school children, under the guidance of their teachers, annually plant about (50,000 trees. In Persia there arc no distilleries nor breweries. and native wine is the only intoxicating beverage used. Wireless telegraphy has driven carV rier pigeons from the ships of tho ) French navy after many years of service. _ " A man who died recently in Rus- ] sia had not slept since his skull was factum! in a railroad accident six years before. x More and healthier chickens aro said to bo produced by electric incubators than by those employing oil lamps or steam. There are trade secrets in the Chinese vermillion industry centuries old. which no foreigner ever has been able to fathom. -A New York hospital recently fur- • nisihed a man whose jawbone had ; "been eaten array with disease until an artificial one made of gold. An automobile Oias been brought - " out in Europe that is ligh't enough to be picked up and carried by the two men whom it will accommodate. A set of simple attachments by tlhe -flise of which an ordinary bicycle may be ridden on a railroad track have been invented by a Frenchman. If a dirty wall that'is to be painted be first given a coat of starch water, the dirt may be brushed 1 off with the starch when the latter dries. : Moss may be removed from a shingle roof by scattering unslaked lime • - above it, so that rain will dissolve the lime and carry it down into the moss. In addition to being a beverage, palm wine may be used as a yeast, an insecticide and- a disinfectant, and it also will remove rust from metals. Living fish that are too lively for tho average camera may be photographed by rendering tOiem sluggish •with chloroform, after which they mav be received unharmed. . - Two of Brazil's waterfalls will be utilised to furnish power for a 400mile electric railroad that will develop now inaccessible iron ore deposits of much wealth. Readers of tho Horowhenua Chroniclo will do drapers and storekeepers a good turn, as well as them- ; . selves, by always asking for Wie ■nopular Roslyn all-wool clothing, - blankets, flannels, rugs, tweeds, yarns. <?oeks, stockings, jersevs and . unshrinkable underwear, "Delta'' finish. Remember, the best is tho cheapest 1 , hence we say, "Ask tor Roslyn."—Advt. e HEADACHES. J , , Like many other human ailments, I, have been wrongly diasniosed and al-. j together misunderstood. The headache itself it not the thing to treat,* ' - for the reason -that, it is an • symptom and is dependent on ; , action of other organs.- "f?Not in. -■ frequently the direct 'cause of feead-.. ; "aohe is an. inactive liver.. vou* 1 ■ a re "troubled m'ufch" Tfith'"headaohes; : then-try ChambetrlainJsJ Tablets, the ' reliable, -tried and -true 'diyer medifi that .pets -tlhat , orjjanVrfgfrt. y. iW . IrJ " S °' B
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 March 1911, Page 4
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