Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1747, 3 July 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Changeable weather. London plague in 1665.

Telephone invented, 186,1. Parliament in full swing. There are 2,750 languages. Two persons die every second. Seddon and Stout already at it. Sound moves .748 miles per hour. Chinese invented paper, 170 B.C. A square mile contains 640 acres. A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds. Hawks can fly 150 miles in one hour. Watches were first constructed in 1476.

Chinese in United States in 1880,105,613. Rome was founded by Romulus, 752 B.C. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. Phonograph invented by T. A. Edison 1877-

Ohinemuri County Council meet at Paeroa to-morrow.

The Te Aroha Brass Band gave a sacred"" concert at Paeroa on Sunday last. Mr John Kennedy, the auctioneer, advertises a sale in Te Aroha for the Bthinst. The first balloon asoended from Lyons, France, 1783.

The first fire insurance office in America, Boston, 1724.

The Maori King has returned to his home and kindred.

Mr H. R. Bell, stationmaster, has gofie to Sydney for a month’s holiday. A rush has set in at the Blue Spur, once a famous diggings near Hokitika. The New Zealand Alliance has fixed July 3 and 4 for the Temperance Convention. The interest in mining matters continues up to par. Prisoners when arrested in Morocco are required to pay the policeman for his trouble in taking them to gaol. The Government are legislating to provide safeguards in regard to the of children. f. The Government are introducing a * Family Homes Bill.’ Crowned heads usually address one another as ‘ cousin,’ but the Queen, on aß«* count of her age is called * aunt ’ by the other sovereigns of Europe. iAn hospital for incurable wind-bags’ was Professor J. Robertson Watson’s description of the House of Commons. Up to Saturday .£I2OO bad been subscribed at Dunedin towards finding work for the unemployed. . Near Blenheim recently a woman was fined for keeping her children from school, although she stated that the house was often without a crust of bread, and, the boys had been kept from school to earn something at picking hops. The head master of the school paid the fine. The Rev A. Anderson was consecrated Bishop of Riverina by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St Paul's on June 30.