Odds, and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1735, 1 May 1895, Page 2

Odds, and Ends.

Fine weather. * ' ften pheasants protected. ■> .• Mr Mclndoe'-has a replace this issue. Te, Aroha is well supplied with visitors. Fruit drying exhibition to-day at Mr D. Wallace's forge. . ■ , f Nominations for Waitoa Eoad Board in another column.

Shooting season for imported game opens to-day. —...... , The apple crop invNova Scotia w;as worth a million dollars last year. ' Paper stockings are. coming into extensive use in Germany. They are said jib prevent colds. sIt is estimated that 90,000 conversations take place , daily over the tele phones in New York. ••• •

A project is on foot to build an electric railway from Valparaiso, Indiana, to Chicago. Jerusalem has lß6fplaces where liquor is sold, the license fees going to. Constantinople. ' ' ' Mudie’s Circulating.Libravy has 3,000,000 hooks constantly fin .circulation, and employs 178 people.- V .' ' : The Swiss Government forbids all juniors the Use'of tobacco. Boys dare not smoke in the public Btreets.

A carrier pigeon recently beat an express locomotive by twenty . minutes on a run from Dover to London, " ” -*• ■' "•;

The Dtjchy of Lancaster last year yielded the Qaeen £48.000 of,,income, whioh js in addition to the Civil List of £385,000..

One section of the Paris Exhibition of 1900 will be,devoted to the history of Christianity from the birth-of Christ down to the present day. The Indian Opium -Commission cost .£16,000, exceeding the original estimate by ,£9508,' and the whole amount is to be charged to the British Exchequer. A German -has invented a small house, capable of holding,four or five persons, to be used in diving and working in sunken ships, or valuable wreckage of other character. / ' . " :

The craze for collecting the first numbers of newspapers is becoming almost as absorbing an industry among amateurs as the possession of rare stamps and book-plates. The largest and oldest chain bridge in the world is said to be that at Kingtung, in China, where it forms a perfect road from the top of one mountain to that of another. A mong Hindo women there are instances of some possessing the highest attainments. Calcutta can boast of several who have taken high' degrees in medicine and science. According to the New York Commissioner of Labour, the introduction of type-setting machines has reduced the number of employees in printing officers-from 20 to 66 per cent.